Topic
What to eat, when, and what the evidence actually supports.
Dan Garner explains how blood work reveals the biological constraints, like low testosterone or vitamin D, that block fitness progress, and why lab noise often makes a rising or falling number meaningless. He also covers hypertrophy training splits, diet breaks, and why peptides like SS-31 sound impressive but lack real performance data.
Metabolic fatty liver disease now affects over 38% of adults worldwide, and physician Peter Attia frames the liver as a mirror of whole-body metabolic health. The disease moves through four stages, from metabolic stress to steatosis, steatohepatitis, and fibrosis, and the first three stages are largely reversible through weight loss, muscle gain, and cutting alcohol and liquid sugar calories.
Performance nutritionist Gemma McGuinness argues that nutrition works best as a long-term investment in health, not a lever pulled only for performance. She explains how flexible standards, if-then planning, and psychological safety keep athletes consistent through injury, career transition, and pressure, with energy levels as the clearest sign nutrition is working.
The personal fat threshold theory says obesity begins when a person's fat cells run out of storage room, not at any fixed weight or BMI. Once storage fills up, fatty acids leak into the liver, muscle, and pancreas, causing insulin resistance. Removing fat surgically does not reverse this; restoring storage capacity does.
Andy Galpin argues nutrition science mostly agrees: eat whole foods, manage calories, hit protein and fiber targets, and hydrate by formula. The rest, like meal timing or keto versus low-fat, is personal preference layered on the same ten to fifteen fundamentals (03:50, 11:48, 32:37).
Nicole Bernard Dawes saved Late July Snacks from collapse after her father's death by discontinuing money-losing cookies and betting everything on organic tortilla chips. The pivot took the company from $8 million to $100 million in sales within three years, before Campbell's absorbed it through a 2018 merger.