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Blog / Meating the Demand: The Rise of Alternative Meat

March 31, 2021 / Autumn G. Hullings /

Alternative meats are here to stay! Can they satisfy our demand for more meat, save the planet, and our health?  Meating the Demand: For More “Meat” Alternative meat options once…

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Blog / Mass Extinction Inside Us

November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 / Autumn G. Hullings /

Humans are hosts to one of the greatest mass extinctions known to earth – and it’s happening inside our gut.

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Blog / How to Change Your Genetics

September 28, 2020September 28, 2020 / Irene Chiang /

Making this one change could help reduce your risk for major diseases.

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Blog / Uncertain Food in a Warming World

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 / Kaylee Helfrich /

Climate change will reduce our ability to reliably get inexpensive, healthy, and plentiful food. Our actions today will determine how we eat in the future.

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Blog / Supplement your way to a better brain? Fact-checking a nutritional supplement

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 / Kaylee Helfrich / 2

A supplement named NeuroActiv6 claims to improve brain function and may improve conditions ranging from ADHD to depression. This article reviews the science behind these claims and discusses how the ingredients might help brain health.

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Blog / Ready for this (royal) jelly: A personal report of succumbing to epigenetic hype

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019 / Brandon Le /

How hard is it to remodel your epigenome? Here’s a report of my attempt to do so using inspiration from honey bees.

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Blog / A Nutritious Diet: Not What the Doctor Ordered?

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 / Kaylee Helfrich /

Approximately 1 out of 5 deaths worldwide is due to poor nutrition, and doctors are not adequately trained to counsel their patients on improving their nutrition to ward off disease.

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Blog / Dietary Supplements: The Uncomfortable Truth

April 2, 2019April 10, 2019 / Eva Vitucci /

Unfortunately, the link between dietary supplement use and negative health impacts is not new. This is likely because the selling of these supplements is not controlled by the U.S. Food…

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Blog / Diet Soda: Providing Insight into a Rare Metabolic Disorder

April 4, 2018April 5, 2018 / Blaide Woodburn /

Have you ever read the Nutrition Facts on a diet soda or sugar-free gum? If so, you might have noticed a bolded sentence that reads: PHENYLKETONURICS: CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE. In the…

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Blog / No Fermentable Foods? Yes Please!

January 29, 2018 / Kaylee Helfrich / 4

No bread. No sugar. No rice, potatoes, corn, soy, milk, onions, garlic, chocolate, processed meats, or alcohol. Is this a starvation diet or a method of torture? Actually, this is…

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Blog / Should Coconut Oil be in Your Pantry?

July 11, 2017July 12, 2017 / Leah Chapman / 1

Maybe it reminds us of a warm beach vacation. Or sipping a pina colada. But whatever the reason, many Americans are making coconut oil a part of their diet. But…

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Blog / Whole Milk, how about that?

June 29, 2017June 29, 2017 / Laetitia Meyrueix /

Many of us can still remember seeing our favorite pop singers with the perfect milk mustache on commercials for “Got milk?”. Later, in the school cafeteria, we would try to…

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Blog / When 2+2 Does NOT Equal 4: Dangers in Reducing Nutrition to the Sum of Its Parts

April 4, 2017April 4, 2017 / Kaylee Helfrich / 2

A researcher is looking at preliminary data from the CARET study when he does a double-take.  He thinks: that can’t be right- people who supplemented with vitamin A have higher…

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