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‘Spoiled soil’ is nowhere near the whole story, and fertiliser is nowhere near everything a plant needs.

A gazillion litres of water per burger? Gladly - anything else would be a catastrophe.

In the first grazing article I flagged some dissent about Allan Savory. Turns out it’s not one but two objections.

Why global policymakers are turning to managed grazing, and what that means for our plates.

Grains are among the most fundamental staples - most people can hardly imagine doing without them. Yet depending on whether they are eaten by humans or fed to animals, they are credited with diametrically opposite properties. Schrödinger’s food

Cattle get a lot of blame - how the farming method can turn that picture around

Allergy season is starting — I don’t care anymore. And I put that down to my diet.

A look inside: what I can’t measure - and why I don’t consider myself clever enough for a vegan diet

Is one of the most iconic meat dishes actually a meat dish? An amusing little realization

On animal ethics, minimizing suffering, and why that doesn’t automatically mean giving up meat

In the first grazing article I flagged some dissent about Allan Savory. Turns out it’s not one but two objections.

Why aren’t you supposed to feed the ducks in the park or the animals at the zoo - and what we can learn from it

Iodine is everywhere and nowhere. It can be absorbed, substituted, or blocked at several stages. What we eat decides which of those happens.

Foods praised for their ingredients often bring the antidote along too. How do antinutrients work? Can they be rendered harmless? A selection.

There’s a second aspect that can be read as a motive for ’eat the rainbow’. Because the rainbow also influences what you don’t eat.

Thoroughly researched, thoroughly cited – and the counter-argument built right in. You just have to read the BARMER’s keto article carefully.

Why modern turbo-bread burdens the body - and why the lockdown sourdough craze accidentally got it right: long fermentation pre-digests what the gut cannot.

Dr Riedl earns both praise and criticism for a single podcast episode: giving up wheat even without coeliac disease👍, double standards on nutrition studies👎.

Foods praised for their ingredients often bring the antidote along too. How do antinutrients work? Can they be rendered harmless? A selection.

‘You should eat a balanced diet’ - but what does that even mean?

They differ by just one digit, but are something entirely different: after Type 2 last chapter, today it’s Type 1 diabetes.

I assume the toolbox of nutritional advice is not well sorted, and it’s unfortunate that a hammer seems to be the only tool left in the box

A rather dry look under the hood: About the scope, options and limits of the simulation that’s found on this site. For Nerds, who want to know what’s going on.

We act as if there were only one kind of hunger - there are actually three, and the dietary guidelines mostly talk about number four.

Another invitation to question cause and effect — especially when it comes to losing weight.

An invitation to reverse the causality: why explaining weight loss through reduced calorie intake is not very helpful

A long answer to a trivial question - sugar is a great deal more than the stuff sold under that name in the supermarket. And it’s not necessarily sweet

What exactly makes us ‘sated’, and when can we eat again? Is it about volume? Hormones? Nutrients? Answers to rhetorical questions…

The body needs glucose, but not carbohydrates. A look at the biochemistry shows how it effortlessly sources everything it needs on its own.

The usual split into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ carbohydrates is a convenient shorthand, but my version of that scale looks different: The bar for ‘good’ is higher.

The body’s preference: Which fuel does it like to burn most? (The answer will surprise you 😉)

A rather dry look under the hood: About the scope, options and limits of the simulation that’s found on this site. For Nerds, who want to know what’s going on.

People who hear about a ketogenic diet often wonder whether that much fat can be healthy. The mindset is widespread, but also outdated: the science has moved on.

Human life has an impact on the climate. We get to choose whether we’d rather spend it on health prevention (and quality of life) or on fixing problems afterwards.

In the first grazing article I flagged some dissent about Allan Savory. Turns out it’s not one but two objections.

Why global policymakers are turning to managed grazing, and what that means for our plates.

Cattle get a lot of blame - how the farming method can turn that picture around

An alternative interpretation of hunger: what if we’re not hungry because we need to eat, but hungry because of what we ate? A useful mental model…

In an episode of the Ernährungsdocs podcast, Germany’s most prominent nutritional physician demonstrates shocking ignorance of and attitude towards ketogenic nutrition

Thoroughly researched, thoroughly cited – and the counter-argument built right in. You just have to read the BARMER’s keto article carefully.

A look inside: what I can’t measure - and why I don’t consider myself clever enough for a vegan diet

I assume the toolbox of nutritional advice is not well sorted, and it’s unfortunate that a hammer seems to be the only tool left in the box

Ordering a Cola: normal. Ordering butter instead of potatoes: justify yourself and have the emergency number ready. How watered-down dietary guidelines became societal consensus.

A dissection of the scientific foundations of the DGE guidelines - because even though I ignore them, I refuse to be accused of being anti-science.

Behind the DGE dietary guidelines: scientific foundations and the choice of goals and solution spaces. How are the recommendations weighted?

The one aspect most commonly cited in favor of the ‘Planetary Health Diet’ is an aspect the associated report explicitly did not examine.

Why the recommendations of the German Nutrition Society don’t actually contradict my completely different personal experience

The body’s preference: Which fuel does it like to burn most? (The answer will surprise you 😉)

A rant: why ‘watch your weight’ as advice doesn’t actually help

What the HbA1c blood value measures, and why it rates two very different people the same.

The ‘fact everybody knows’ - that meat causes diabetes - keeps crossing my path. So I went and read the studies, and ended up with the longest reference list of any article here.

They differ by just one digit, but are something entirely different: after Type 2 last chapter, today it’s Type 1 diabetes.

I assume the toolbox of nutritional advice is not well sorted, and it’s unfortunate that a hammer seems to be the only tool left in the box

Even though Type 2 diabetes is often called a ‘sugar disease’: the real elephant in the room is insulin. The good news: patients can help themselves - if they want to.

Insulin is in the center of many noncommunicable diseases. In this chapter we’re looking at the various types of Diabetes. ☝️🤓: More than 2!

In an episode of the Ernährungsdocs podcast, Germany’s most prominent nutritional physician demonstrates shocking ignorance of and attitude towards ketogenic nutrition

Thoroughly researched, thoroughly cited – and the counter-argument built right in. You just have to read the BARMER’s keto article carefully.

The literature doesn’t list fibre as essential, yet standard guidelines treat it as indispensable. A self-experiment, with a surprising outcome.

The literature doesn’t list fibre as essential, yet standard guidelines treat it as indispensable. A self-experiment, with a surprising outcome.

If something is hard, that is a sign it is worth doing👍. Or that it is not worth even considering👎. It depends.

Dr Riedl earns both praise and criticism for a single podcast episode: giving up wheat even without coeliac disease👍, double standards on nutrition studies👎.

In an episode of the Ernährungsdocs podcast, Germany’s most prominent nutritional physician demonstrates shocking ignorance of and attitude towards ketogenic nutrition

Sugar is the new smoking - everyone knows it causes caries, but nobody acts on it. The science, on the other hand, is not in doubt.

Iodine is everywhere and nowhere. It can be absorbed, substituted, or blocked at several stages. What we eat decides which of those happens.

‘Spoiled soil’ is nowhere near the whole story, and fertiliser is nowhere near everything a plant needs.

Soap in your food? It’s not quite that bad - but not much better either.

Why modern turbo-bread burdens the body - and why the lockdown sourdough craze accidentally got it right: long fermentation pre-digests what the gut cannot.

Human height dropped dramatically with the agricultural revolution - but lately it has climbed again, and there are other growth-dimensions to be aware of.

A buzz without the blood-alcohol reading - how the classic alcoholic’s diseases can arise without the drink, plus a brand-new dietary guideline

Our psyche, too, is built from the building blocks we feed the body - a long-ignored angle

So, who had it on their bingo card that our fertility depends on whether we eat rice cakes with hummus or steak with butter?

Your love handles are a food diary of the last few years - and many of the entries come from the deep fryer.

Old biochemistry meets new food: why many modern diseases of civilisation coincide, in time and in mechanism, with very specific dietary changes. Prelude to a new series

I’m passing on an expert warning from the internet. The incredible effects of intermittent fasting 🤦 (ignore Betteridge for a moment)

A team of scientists dug up correspondence from the 1960s: the sugar industry paid, Harvard researched, fat took the blame.

Some people are ‘rolling in stones’ - much to their dismay - and have no idea how they came by quite so many.

Your love handles are a food diary of the last few years - and many of the entries come from the deep fryer.

The body’s preference: Which fuel does it like to burn most? (The answer will surprise you 😉)

Schrödinger would have had a field day with the contradictory claims about whether saturated fat is harmful or beneficial. My take: ‘Everything is better with butter’

So, who had it on their bingo card that our fertility depends on whether we eat rice cakes with hummus or steak with butter?

Jammed roads and a jammed-up gut get treated in completely opposite ways. It turns out - to absolutely no one’s surprise - that ‘more traffic’ doesn’t clear congested traffic

The usual split into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ carbohydrates is a convenient shorthand, but my version of that scale looks different: The bar for ‘good’ is higher.

The literature doesn’t list fibre as essential, yet standard guidelines treat it as indispensable. A self-experiment, with a surprising outcome.

The classic mantra “fibre == good, saturated fat == bad” contradicts itself (and what butter specifically has to do with it)

The popular weight-loss injection promises less ‘food noise’ - and lists side effects. A ketogenic diet does the same, and comes with side benefits.

The body’s preference: Which fuel does it like to burn most? (The answer will surprise you 😉)

An alternative interpretation of hunger: what if we’re not hungry because we need to eat, but hungry because of what we ate? A useful mental model…

What the HbA1c blood value measures, and why it rates two very different people the same.

Why modern turbo-bread burdens the body - and why the lockdown sourdough craze accidentally got it right: long fermentation pre-digests what the gut cannot.

Why aren’t you supposed to feed the ducks in the park or the animals at the zoo - and what we can learn from it

Grains are among the most fundamental staples - most people can hardly imagine doing without them. Yet depending on whether they are eaten by humans or fed to animals, they are credited with diametrically opposite properties. Schrödinger’s food

Iodine is everywhere and nowhere. It can be absorbed, substituted, or blocked at several stages. What we eat decides which of those happens.

When a sugar bomb gets counted as milk, don’t be surprised when the numbers don’t add up.

There’s a second aspect that can be read as a motive for ’eat the rainbow’. Because the rainbow also influences what you don’t eat.

I assume the toolbox of nutritional advice is not well sorted, and it’s unfortunate that a hammer seems to be the only tool left in the box

The body needs glucose, but not carbohydrates. A look at the biochemistry shows how it effortlessly sources everything it needs on its own.

The literature doesn’t list fibre as essential, yet standard guidelines treat it as indispensable. A self-experiment, with a surprising outcome.

A popular piece of advice, and what my brain does with it when reading it creatively - and from contrary experience. A rant.

What exactly makes us ‘sated’, and when can we eat again? Is it about volume? Hormones? Nutrients? Answers to rhetorical questions…

The popular weight-loss injection promises less ‘food noise’ - and lists side effects. A ketogenic diet does the same, and comes with side benefits.

We act as if there were only one kind of hunger - there are actually three, and the dietary guidelines mostly talk about number four.

An alternative interpretation of hunger: what if we’re not hungry because we need to eat, but hungry because of what we ate? A useful mental model…

Foods praised for their ingredients often bring the antidote along too. How do antinutrients work? Can they be rendered harmless? A selection.

Allergy season is starting — I don’t care anymore. And I put that down to my diet.

They differ by just one digit, but are something entirely different: after Type 2 last chapter, today it’s Type 1 diabetes.

Even though Type 2 diabetes is often called a ‘sugar disease’: the real elephant in the room is insulin. The good news: patients can help themselves - if they want to.

Insulin is in the center of many noncommunicable diseases. In this chapter we’re looking at the various types of Diabetes. ☝️🤓: More than 2!

A closer look at some of insulin’s key roles: regulating blood sugar, driving fat storage, and ultimately influencing body weight

I’m passing on an expert warning from the internet. The incredible effects of intermittent fasting 🤦 (ignore Betteridge for a moment)

A look inside: what I can’t measure - and why I don’t consider myself clever enough for a vegan diet

If something is hard, that is a sign it is worth doing👍. Or that it is not worth even considering👎. It depends.

Dr Riedl earns both praise and criticism for a single podcast episode: giving up wheat even without coeliac disease👍, double standards on nutrition studies👎.

The popular weight-loss injection promises less ‘food noise’ - and lists side effects. A ketogenic diet does the same, and comes with side benefits.

A collection of article links on this site, as a topic-based, easy entry point.

I assume the toolbox of nutritional advice is not well sorted, and it’s unfortunate that a hammer seems to be the only tool left in the box

People who hear about a ketogenic diet often wonder whether that much fat can be healthy. The mindset is widespread, but also outdated: the science has moved on.

If you get winded quickly - or just want to last longer - the right diet can extend your endurance by roughly 30%

In an episode of the Ernährungsdocs podcast, Germany’s most prominent nutritional physician demonstrates shocking ignorance of and attitude towards ketogenic nutrition

Thoroughly researched, thoroughly cited – and the counter-argument built right in. You just have to read the BARMER’s keto article carefully.

The body’s preference: Which fuel does it like to burn most? (The answer will surprise you 😉)

A surprising side effect of switching to a ketogenic diet: a new built-in sun protection factor

The one aspect most commonly cited in favor of the ‘Planetary Health Diet’ is an aspect the associated report explicitly did not examine.

Foods praised for their ingredients often bring the antidote along too. How do antinutrients work? Can they be rendered harmless? A selection.

There’s a second aspect that can be read as a motive for ’eat the rainbow’. Because the rainbow also influences what you don’t eat.

A look inside: what I can’t measure - and why I don’t consider myself clever enough for a vegan diet

The ‘fact everybody knows’ - that meat causes diabetes - keeps crossing my path. So I went and read the studies, and ended up with the longest reference list of any article here.

A gazillion litres of water per burger? Gladly - anything else would be a catastrophe.

On animal ethics, minimizing suffering, and why that doesn’t automatically mean giving up meat

In the first grazing article I flagged some dissent about Allan Savory. Turns out it’s not one but two objections.

Why global policymakers are turning to managed grazing, and what that means for our plates.

Why aren’t you supposed to feed the ducks in the park or the animals at the zoo - and what we can learn from it

Grains are among the most fundamental staples - most people can hardly imagine doing without them. Yet depending on whether they are eaten by humans or fed to animals, they are credited with diametrically opposite properties. Schrödinger’s food

Cattle get a lot of blame - how the farming method can turn that picture around

Sugar is the new smoking - everyone knows it causes caries, but nobody acts on it. The science, on the other hand, is not in doubt.

Grains are among the most fundamental staples - most people can hardly imagine doing without them. Yet depending on whether they are eaten by humans or fed to animals, they are credited with diametrically opposite properties. Schrödinger’s food

Iodine is everywhere and nowhere. It can be absorbed, substituted, or blocked at several stages. What we eat decides which of those happens.

Human life has an impact on the climate. We get to choose whether we’d rather spend it on health prevention (and quality of life) or on fixing problems afterwards.

The ‘fact everybody knows’ - that meat causes diabetes - keeps crossing my path. So I went and read the studies, and ended up with the longest reference list of any article here.

The literature doesn’t list fibre as essential, yet standard guidelines treat it as indispensable. A self-experiment, with a surprising outcome.

Why aren’t you supposed to feed the ducks in the park or the animals at the zoo - and what we can learn from it

Allergy season is starting — I don’t care anymore. And I put that down to my diet.

A surprising side effect of switching to a ketogenic diet: a new built-in sun protection factor

Sugar is the new smoking - everyone knows it causes caries, but nobody acts on it. The science, on the other hand, is not in doubt.

Iodine is everywhere and nowhere. It can be absorbed, substituted, or blocked at several stages. What we eat decides which of those happens.

A quick response to the protein requirement calculator: now with more than 7100 foods and dishes to choose from - in the glucose-insulin simulator too

Protein requirement looks like a matter of opinion - but there is a way to get at harder facts, and to tell proteins apart

‘Spoiled soil’ is nowhere near the whole story, and fertiliser is nowhere near everything a plant needs.

Soap in your food? It’s not quite that bad - but not much better either.

Why modern turbo-bread burdens the body - and why the lockdown sourdough craze accidentally got it right: long fermentation pre-digests what the gut cannot.

Human height dropped dramatically with the agricultural revolution - but lately it has climbed again, and there are other growth-dimensions to be aware of.

A buzz without the blood-alcohol reading - how the classic alcoholic’s diseases can arise without the drink, plus a brand-new dietary guideline

Our psyche, too, is built from the building blocks we feed the body - a long-ignored angle

So, who had it on their bingo card that our fertility depends on whether we eat rice cakes with hummus or steak with butter?

What exactly makes us ‘sated’, and when can we eat again? Is it about volume? Hormones? Nutrients? Answers to rhetorical questions…

Is one of the most iconic meat dishes actually a meat dish? An amusing little realization

Allergy season is starting — I don’t care anymore. And I put that down to my diet.

In the first grazing article I flagged some dissent about Allan Savory. Turns out it’s not one but two objections.

Why global policymakers are turning to managed grazing, and what that means for our plates.

Cattle get a lot of blame - how the farming method can turn that picture around

The popular weight-loss injection promises less ‘food noise’ - and lists side effects. A ketogenic diet does the same, and comes with side benefits.

Were it not so well documented, this question would veer dangerously close to conspiracy theory: it was genuinely asked.

The one aspect most commonly cited in favor of the ‘Planetary Health Diet’ is an aspect the associated report explicitly did not examine.

Iodine is everywhere and nowhere. It can be absorbed, substituted, or blocked at several stages. What we eat decides which of those happens.

A look inside: what I can’t measure - and why I don’t consider myself clever enough for a vegan diet

Foods praised for their ingredients often bring the antidote along too. How do antinutrients work? Can they be rendered harmless? A selection.

Is one of the most iconic meat dishes actually a meat dish? An amusing little realization

On animal ethics, minimizing suffering, and why that doesn’t automatically mean giving up meat

In the first grazing article I flagged some dissent about Allan Savory. Turns out it’s not one but two objections.

If you’re here because you listened to the Ketobiography podcast with Robyn Dobbins, here are some starting points to explore the site and the simulation

If you’re here because you listened to my episode on Boundless Body Radio, you might want to start here. Others find a quick introduction to the site, and an awesome podcast to subscribe to and listen.

On animal ethics, minimizing suffering, and why that doesn’t automatically mean giving up meat

A team of scientists dug up correspondence from the 1960s: the sugar industry paid, Harvard researched, fat took the blame.

Meat is considered both extremely nutrient-dense and carcinogenic - how can that be, and what’s behind it?

A dissection of the scientific foundations of the DGE guidelines - because even though I ignore them, I refuse to be accused of being anti-science.

Behind the DGE dietary guidelines: scientific foundations and the choice of goals and solution spaces. How are the recommendations weighted?

The one aspect most commonly cited in favor of the ‘Planetary Health Diet’ is an aspect the associated report explicitly did not examine.

Why the recommendations of the German Nutrition Society don’t actually contradict my completely different personal experience

A quick response to the protein requirement calculator: now with more than 7100 foods and dishes to choose from - in the glucose-insulin simulator too

Protein requirement looks like a matter of opinion - but there is a way to get at harder facts, and to tell proteins apart

Your love handles are a food diary of the last few years - and many of the entries come from the deep fryer.

A surprising side effect of switching to a ketogenic diet: a new built-in sun protection factor

‘You should eat a balanced diet’ - but what does that even mean?

When a sugar bomb gets counted as milk, don’t be surprised when the numbers don’t add up.

A gazillion litres of water per burger? Gladly - anything else would be a catastrophe.

I’m passing on an expert warning from the internet. The incredible effects of intermittent fasting 🤦 (ignore Betteridge for a moment)

Ordering a Cola: normal. Ordering butter instead of potatoes: justify yourself and have the emergency number ready. How watered-down dietary guidelines became societal consensus.

A popular piece of advice, and what my brain does with it when reading it creatively - and from contrary experience. A rant.

A rant: why ‘watch your weight’ as advice doesn’t actually help

A team of scientists dug up correspondence from the 1960s: the sugar industry paid, Harvard researched, fat took the blame.

Your love handles are a food diary of the last few years - and many of the entries come from the deep fryer.

Meat is considered both extremely nutrient-dense and carcinogenic - how can that be, and what’s behind it?

A collection of article links on this site, as a topic-based, easy entry point.

I assume the toolbox of nutritional advice is not well sorted, and it’s unfortunate that a hammer seems to be the only tool left in the box

Jammed roads and a jammed-up gut get treated in completely opposite ways. It turns out - to absolutely no one’s surprise - that ‘more traffic’ doesn’t clear congested traffic

Why global policymakers are turning to managed grazing, and what that means for our plates.

A dissection of the scientific foundations of the DGE guidelines - because even though I ignore them, I refuse to be accused of being anti-science.

Behind the DGE dietary guidelines: scientific foundations and the choice of goals and solution spaces. How are the recommendations weighted?

The one aspect most commonly cited in favor of the ‘Planetary Health Diet’ is an aspect the associated report explicitly did not examine.

Why the recommendations of the German Nutrition Society don’t actually contradict my completely different personal experience

Your love handles are a food diary of the last few years - and many of the entries come from the deep fryer.

Schrödinger would have had a field day with the contradictory claims about whether saturated fat is harmful or beneficial. My take: ‘Everything is better with butter’

The classic mantra “fibre == good, saturated fat == bad” contradicts itself (and what butter specifically has to do with it)

A surprising side effect of switching to a ketogenic diet: a new built-in sun protection factor

A quick response to the protein requirement calculator: now with more than 7100 foods and dishes to choose from - in the glucose-insulin simulator too

Protein requirement looks like a matter of opinion - but there is a way to get at harder facts, and to tell proteins apart

If you’re here because you listened to the Ketobiography podcast with Robyn Dobbins, here are some starting points to explore the site and the simulation

A rather dry look under the hood: About the scope, options and limits of the simulation that’s found on this site. For Nerds, who want to know what’s going on.

If you’re here because you listened to my episode on Boundless Body Radio, you might want to start here. Others find a quick introduction to the site, and an awesome podcast to subscribe to and listen.

You can now easily share your simulation with others

A suggestion for how this site delivers results quickly, and how to discover its features

‘Spoiled soil’ is nowhere near the whole story, and fertiliser is nowhere near everything a plant needs.

In the first grazing article I flagged some dissent about Allan Savory. Turns out it’s not one but two objections.

Cattle get a lot of blame - how the farming method can turn that picture around

If you get winded quickly - or just want to last longer - the right diet can extend your endurance by roughly 30%

A team of scientists dug up correspondence from the 1960s: the sugar industry paid, Harvard researched, fat took the blame.

Even though Type 2 diabetes is often called a ‘sugar disease’: the real elephant in the room is insulin. The good news: patients can help themselves - if they want to.

Sugar is the new smoking - everyone knows it causes caries, but nobody acts on it. The science, on the other hand, is not in doubt.

An invitation to reverse the causality: why explaining weight loss through reduced calorie intake is not very helpful

Soap in your food? It’s not quite that bad - but not much better either.

A look inside: what I can’t measure - and why I don’t consider myself clever enough for a vegan diet

Grains are among the most fundamental staples - most people can hardly imagine doing without them. Yet depending on whether they are eaten by humans or fed to animals, they are credited with diametrically opposite properties. Schrödinger’s food

A rant: why ‘watch your weight’ as advice doesn’t actually help

The popular weight-loss injection promises less ‘food noise’ - and lists side effects. A ketogenic diet does the same, and comes with side benefits.

Another invitation to question cause and effect — especially when it comes to losing weight.

A closer look at some of insulin’s key roles: regulating blood sugar, driving fat storage, and ultimately influencing body weight

Grains are among the most fundamental staples - most people can hardly imagine doing without them. Yet depending on whether they are eaten by humans or fed to animals, they are credited with diametrically opposite properties. Schrödinger’s food

An alternative interpretation of hunger: what if we’re not hungry because we need to eat, but hungry because of what we ate? A useful mental model…

A rant: why ‘watch your weight’ as advice doesn’t actually help

An invitation to reverse the causality: why explaining weight loss through reduced calorie intake is not very helpful