Nutrition

Nutrition

Nutrient density, gaps and interactions with your stack.

What the label says, what the food contains, and the gap between the two. An extra virgin olive oil can vary a thousandfold on its active molecule, a commercial kefir can state ten times more bacteria than it holds, a vitamin deficiency can take years to become visible.

Each article ties a food or a nutrient to what trials and standards have actually established, and stops where the data stops.

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Kefir: proven benefits, alcohol, and how it differs from yoghurt

The international standard requires kefir to carry at least 10,000 live yeasts per gram. Yoghurt requires none. Everything else follows from that.

24 August 20266 min

Olive oil: polyphenols, the heart, and which one to buy

Across 1,239 extra virgin olive oils, phenolic content ranges from 1 to 2,850 mg/kg. The label does not tell you where yours sits.

24 August 20268 min

Vitamin B12: the deficiency that looks like early dementia

My father is 62. He was forgetting details I had just repeated to him, and he had become slow. I thought it was early dementia.

13 August 20266 min

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