Nutrition

One feeds the bacteria you have, the other adds new ones. Which you need, why strain names matter more than CFU counts, and how to get both from food.

Kale is not a fiber food. Here is the list that actually adds up, with grams per real serving and a 25-gram day you can build this week.

Most women eat half the fiber they need and never notice. The real daily target, why it matters, and how to get there without the bloat.

Fatigue appears under six different nutrients. Hair loss under four. Symptom checklists are the format most likely to send you to the wrong shelf, so this one is built differently.

390,000 adults followed for twenty years. No mortality benefit. Here’s what the big multivitamin trials actually found, and the specific groups where a multi still earns its place.

The iron question decides this before brand or price does. Get it wrong and you’re either missing what you needed or accumulating what you didn’t.

The front label tells you the weight of the oil. The number that matters is printed smaller. Here’s how to read it, and which five actually pass independent testing.

Fish oil is sold as the safest supplement on the shelf. Randomised trials found it raises atrial fibrillation risk, and the effect scales with dose. Here’s how to hold that alongside the real benefits.

The critical window for folate closes before most women know they’re pregnant. And the MTHFR test everyone’s selling? The medical genetics body says don’t order it.

If you’re plant-based, this is the one supplement I’ll tell you outright that you need. And if you take metformin, nobody has probably mentioned B12 to you at all.