Author: Sarah Doyle
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Protein: you’re probably eating enough but distributing it all wrong
The nutrition world has spent the last decade arguing about how much protein you need per day. One gram per pound of bodyweight. Point eight grams per kilogram. Point six. Two. The debate has generated enormous amounts of content, podcast hours, and supplement marketing, with various experts staking out positions based on the same underlying…
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Vitamin D deficiency: 70% of people have it and most doctors don’t test for it right
If you got a standard blood test recently and your vitamin D came back “normal,” there’s a meaningful chance it wasn’t. The thresholds most labs use to define sufficiency were calibrated primarily against bone outcomes — specifically rickets and osteomalacia, the severe deficiency diseases — not against the full range of things vitamin D does…