August 2026

Gut health has become one of the most searched nutrition topics of the past several years, and the content landscape around it ranges from genuinely useful to spectacularly misleading. Probiotic supplements promising to transform your immune system. Elimination diets claiming to reset your gut in 30 days. Fermented food trends that are partly rooted in…

If you’ve spent any time on nutrition social media in the past couple of years, you’ve seen the seed oil debate play out in its most theatrical form. On one side: influencers and wellness figures calling seed oils one of the most dangerous things in the modern food supply, claiming they cause everything from inflammation

Protein is everywhere right now. It’s in the yogurt, the pasta, the cereal, the water. Every food product on the shelf has a protein claim on the front, and the cultural messaging around eating more of it has expanded so far beyond bodybuilding that endurance runners — people who were previously told to focus almost

Rest days come with a specific and extremely common instinct: eat less. You’re not running today. You burned fewer calories. It feels logical, maybe even virtuous, to pull back on food and let the body coast rather than feeding it the same way you do on training days. This instinct is one of the most

Nutrition is one of the most advice-saturated topics on the internet and one of the least reliably accurate. The combination of genuine scientific complexity, financial incentives in the supplement and diet industry, and the way health content spreads on social media has produced an environment where confident, widely-shared nutrition advice is frequently wrong — and

The phrase “healthy relationship with food” gets used a lot, and it often gets used without much specificity about what it actually means. It shows up in wellness content as a vague aspirational state — something you’re supposed to have, something you might not have, with not much in between about how to get from

If you’ve ever worked through a bag of chips without really noticing, or found yourself in the kitchen looking for something to eat twenty minutes into a stressful workday, or finished a meal you barely tasted because you were anxious about something that had nothing to do with food — you’ve experienced stress eating. And