Diet.
Specific superfoods, what the research actually says about them, and how they fit into a balanced, sustainable diet.
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Blueberries: Anthocyanins, Brains, and the Limits of Superfood Marketing →
What randomized trials show about blueberries, vascular function, and cognition — and why a daily cup is a defensible habit even if "superfood" is a marketing word.
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Cruciferous Vegetables and Sulforaphane: NRF2, Broccoli Sprouts, and the Limits of a Pill →
Broccoli sprouts deliver one of the most studied phytochemicals — sulforaphane — at a dose 20 to 50 times higher than mature broccoli. What the human trials actually show.
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Extra Virgin Olive Oil: The Single Most Studied Fat in Human Nutrition →
The PREDIMED trial put extra virgin olive oil at the center of evidence-based cardiology. Here is what it actually demonstrated, and how to choose a bottle that delivers the polyphenols the trial relied on.
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Fermented Foods: A Quiet, Daily Lever on the Gut Microbiome →
A Stanford trial found that ten weeks of fermented foods raised microbiome diversity and lowered inflammatory markers — outperforming a high-fiber arm. Here is what to eat and why.
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Green Tea and EGCG: A Cup Is Better Evidence Than a Pill →
A long-running observational signal for cardiovascular mortality, modest mechanistic data — and a warning about high-dose extracts that the daily drinker can ignore.
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The Mediterranean Diet: The Closest Thing Nutrition Has to a Best Practice →
No fashionable nutrition pattern has anything like the trial evidence the Mediterranean diet does. Here is what the literature actually supports — and what gets oversold.
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Time-Restricted Eating: A Schedule Trick That Mostly Works By Lowering Intake →
Eating inside a 6–10 hour daily window has become the popular face of intermittent fasting. The honest trial readout is that it works, but mostly for ordinary reasons.