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Primal Kitchen Mayo Review
An uncompromising ingredient list, excellent taste, and decent value are positives for Primal Kitchen Mayo, but should you try it?
August 31, 2022
Primal Kitchen Teriyaki Sauce Review
No soy, no problem. Primal Kitchen does a great job of mimicking the flavor, but can you afford it?
August 31, 2022
Grass Fed vs Grain Fed: Which Beef is Best?
A grass-fed and pasture-roaming cow is more humanely raised, has superior nutrition, and provides extensive environmental benefits over grain-fed cows.
August 31, 2022
How Non-Alcoholic Beer Is Made
There are many ways to make non-alcoholic beer, but some have found a way give NA drinkers a tasty alternative to traditional beer.
August 31, 2022
Low FODMAP Meal Plan
If you have IBS or unexplained gastrointestinal symptoms, the low FODMAP diet may improve your digestive troubles.
August 26, 2022
Deep Dive into Cellular Senescence and Aging
Senescent cells are linked to accelerated aging, chronic disease, and bodily decline. But is it possible to reverse senescence?
August 26, 2022
Best Nootropics for Studying
Your brain activity isn’t set in stone—you can alter your cognitive performance with nootropics.
August 25, 2022
Canola Oil vs. Olive Oil
Take a deep dive into the nutritional and culinary pros and cons of canola oil and olive oil (spoiler alert: olive oil is the winner).
August 25, 2022
Perfect Keto Review: The Best Way to Go Keto?
Here’s how Perfect Keto earned their A- in our review, including conversations with onboard nutrition science researcher Chris Irvin.
August 24, 2022
The 3 Best Mushrooms for Anxiety
Medicinal mushrooms are becoming an increasingly popular way to support health—including reducing anxiety or stress.
August 23, 2022
Foods That Activate Brown Fat for Healthier Metabolism
Learn how brown fat can be a secret weapon for weight loss.
August 19, 2022
Qualia Mind Review
Qualia Mind is regarded as one of the most comprehensive nootropic supplements on the market. So we tested it to find out.
August 19, 2022
Qualia Resilience Review
Stress being in no short supply these days, Qualia Resilience is intended to help you rise above, but does it?
August 18, 2022
Primal Kitchen Buffalo Sauce Review
Looking for a rich and spicy keto-friendly sauce that you can shellac all over your next meal?
August 18, 2022
Chickpeas Vs. Lentils: Our RD Explains the Differences
Let’s settle the chickpeas vs. lentils debate by analyzing their nutritional profiles, cooking characteristics, and ways you can use them in the kitchen.
August 17, 2022
Top 9 Adaptogens for Weight Loss
These impressive herbs and plants regulate the body’s stress response, which translates to better health in several ways—including promoting a healthy body weight.
August 16, 2022
When to Take Digestive Enzymes (+5 Benefits)
Learn all about the benefits of digestive enzymes, what to expect, and the best time to take them.
August 15, 2022
Top 10 Herbs for Happiness
Research in recent years has pinpointed several adaptogenic herbs that can help us feel happier, less stressed, and more excited about our lives.
August 15, 2022
HOP WTR Review: A Worthy Beer Alternative?
They've nixed the alcohol and added some calming adaptogens to boot, but is HOP WTR really good enough to replace beer?
August 15, 2022
10 Best Gluten Free Protein Bars
These top 10 best gluten-free protein bars are also delicious and made with healthy ingredients.
August 10, 2022
Mountain Rose Herbs Review
As buzzy and sometimes cheaply exploited label-slappers like “organic” and “fair trade” begin to show their wear, we have been on a search to find an herbal product company that models the true meaning of these terms.
August 3, 2022
Your Super Review: Organic Superfood Mixes
Rising above the endless tide of powdered health supplements, Your Super stands by organic ingredients and ethical sourcing.
August 2, 2022
Athletic Brewing Review
It's a tall order, reinventing the age-old tradition of beer drinking while making it healthier, but Athletic Brewing makes a strong case for change.
August 1, 2022
Avocado Oil vs Olive Oil
Experts tend to agree that avocado oil and olive oil are two of the healthiest fats we can use for cooking—but does one outperform the other?
July 27, 2022
Almond Butter vs. Peanut Butter
People have been snacking on peanut butter for decades, but is the new(ish) kid on the block superior?
July 26, 2022
Betaine HCl: Top 5 Benefits for Gut Health and More
Betaine HCl naturally boosts gastric acidity to fight back against indigestion, but that's not all it's good for.
July 22, 2022
How to Heal Your Gut
There are several ways to improve your digestive health and relieve those uncomfortable symptoms.
July 20, 2022
The War On Food Waste Is Here: Meet The Farmlink Project
The Farmlink Project, an altruistic organization founded by college students, is combating food waste on a grand scale. We spoke with co-founder Aidan Reilly to learn more.
July 16, 2022
Does Apple Cider Vinegar Go Bad?
Does apple cider vinegar go bad? Learn how to store it for longer shelf life and how you can make the most of ACV's benefits.
July 15, 2022
Is Sous Vide Worth It? Top 5 Benefits of Sous Vide Cooking
Thanks to increased affordability and accessibility, sous vide cooking has many advantages that make it a worthwhile—and impressive—appliance.
July 14, 2022
Fisetin Benefits: Dosages and How to Take It
The fisetin benefits we know about today (e.g., anti-aging) are from relatively recent research. We dive into said research, including dosing and more.
July 13, 2022
Primal Kitchen Review: Is It Really Healthy?
In our Primal Kitchen review, we graded their better-for-you condiments, dressings, and supplements based on taste, ingredient quality, and more.
July 13, 2022
The Health Benefits of Coffee Fruit and How to Use It
Once considered a useless byproduct, coffee fruit actually has ample antioxidant activity with brain-boosting and fat-fighting potential.
July 13, 2022
Mental Clarity: Tips and Supplements to Sharpen Your Mind
If you’re like many of us, a productive, in-the-zone kind of day sounds like a pipe dream—but it doesn’t have to be.
July 12, 2022
L-Theanine for Anxiety: How Much L-Theanine to Take and When
L-theanine functions similar to anti-anxiety drugs without the serious side effects and addictive qualities.
July 6, 2022
How Long Does Melatonin Last? Everything You Need to Know
You don't want to make up feeling worse than you did before you went to bed, so how long does melatonin last in your system? It all depends.
June 21, 2022
Qualia Senolytic Review: Can It Really Combat Cellular Aging?
This groundbreaking, twice-a-month regimen targets aging at the cellular level, but does it work?
June 16, 2022
Som Sleep Review: Does It Work?
In an industry needlessly bogged down by an unspoken commitment to capsules, capsules, and more capsules, Som Sleep and their drinkable sleep supplements are calling for change.
June 7, 2022
Doughp Review: Is Doughp Cookie Dough Worth It?
If getting hooked on cookie dough made by a brand that supports people struggling with addiction (and mental health) isn’t enough irony for you, let us remind you the company is called “Doughp.”
May 26, 2022
Anova Review: Product Quality, Pricing, and More
“Sous vide” may sound like some obscure foody term on the surface, but according to Anova, you don’t have to be a certified gourmand to appreciate the benefits of this highly precise cooking method.
May 3, 2022
Crowd Cow Review: Is “Craft Meat” Worth It?
After an admittedly drawn-out sampling campaign, our editorial team has come to a verdict on Crowd Cow's direct-to-consumer meat products.
April 27, 2022
Standout Supplement Brands at Expo West 2022
Here are a few of the best supplement brands we engaged with at Expo West, from CBD and herbal remedy brands to a doctor-founded nutrition company.
March 24, 2022
Standout Keto Brands at Expo West 2022
Keto is daunting enough without the added woes of subpar food choices, which is why we're highlighting brands from Expo West 2022 that do it right.
March 24, 2022
Standout Beverage Brands at Expo West 2022
Brands at this year’s Expo West were pushing the frontier of healthy coffees, beers, and teas far beyond the gimmicky permutations of the past.
March 23, 2022
Natural Products Expo West 2022: Standout Brands
See the most interesting highlights from the first Natural Products Expo West since 2019.
March 18, 2022
Natural Products Expo West Is Back and Booming!
After two years off from in-person events, Natural Products Expo West has returned to Anaheim, California in its full glory, drawing in thousands of brands, tens of thousands of attendees, and a definitively upbeat atmosphere. This is the first major event hosted at the Anaheim Convention Center since the beginning of the pandemic, and as…
March 11, 2022
Onnit New Mood Review
Featuring a conscientious blend of easily absorbable nutrients, extracts, and vital serotonin precursors, Onnit New Mood mounts a targeted attempt to improve mood and fight general stress.
December 16, 2021
Onnit Total Gut Health Review
Loaded with prebiotics and probiotics, betaine hydrochloride, and plenty of natural extracts, Onnit Total Gut Health is aiming for a comprehensive approach to digestive health.
December 16, 2021
Onnit Alpha Brain Review
Our editorial team reviewed Alpha Brain, a nootropic supplement from Onnit, for ingredient quality, research-supported benefits, side effects, and more.
December 14, 2021
Huperzia Serrata: Not Just for Alzheimer’s
The mossy, spindly extensions of Huperzia serrata may not look like much to the casual observer, but the compounds therein can improve memory and other cognitive functions for Alzheimer’s patients to potentially great effect.
September 25, 2021
Is Vegan Collagen a Thing?
Plants don’t have skin and bones and muscles, so vegan collagen doesn’t exist, right? Just a few years ago, this statement would have been (mostly) true, but today, there actually is a way to source this structural protein in its complete form from vegan-friendly foods.
August 9, 2021
How Collagen Supplements Support Healthy Skin
The hype is strong with you, collagen supplements, but are you legit?
August 6, 2021
The Many Benefits of Marine Collagen
Are consumers being baited with the “just slap a technical-sounding keyword in front of an established product to revitalize sales” method?
August 4, 2021
Collagen-Rich Foods That Fight Aging and More
It usually means one of two things when buzzwords like collagen manage to rise above their thousands of competitors in the riotous health and wellness market: either the people running the scam are really smart, or the product is actually legitimate.
July 28, 2021
Weight Management Tips for Sedentary Workers
Whether you’ve been shoved into a sedentary lifestyle by the pandemic or if you’re a veteran desk rider like us, you may have noticed a few unwelcome changes in your physique after making the transition to a sedentary job and/or lifestyle.
July 9, 2021
Can Rapid Weight Gain Be Healthy?
It’s not just the number on the scale that can affect heart disease and diabetes risk, longevity, and other indicators of overall health, but how you get there.
July 9, 2021
What Is Low-Glycemic Eating?
Both newspaper and lighter fluid are flammable, but throw each one onto a campfire, and you’ll get two noticeably different results.
July 2, 2021
The Ectomorph’s Guide to Healthy Weight Gain
Not being taken seriously is one thing, but having your struggle to gain healthy weight as an ectomorph twisted into a blessing by others is downright frustrating.
July 1, 2021
Eat Less, Feel Just as Full: Here’s How
Dieting to enhance fullness (with less/healthier food) is an overlooked, but very useful method that anyone can use to lose weight and replace unhealthy food with much better alternatives.
July 1, 2021
Best Foods for Post-Workout Recovery
Anyone who has taken more than one hiatus from exercise knows that it’s not that first return workout that you should be afraid of, but the day after.
July 1, 2021
Can Food Affect Mood?
It doesn’t take a team of scientists to figure out that the prospect of a delicious meal has a way of perking up one’s mood.
July 1, 2021
Fiber: An Epidemic-Level Deficiency
In an era of TV remotes with built-in bottle openers and self-twirling pasta forks, it’s no surprise that we’ve become too lazy to chew.
June 30, 2021
Water: The Original Weight Loss Hack
Unlike the fifteen radio ads for “super fat burner 3000” pelting your ears on every commute, you won’t hear any arguments for plain old water as a weight loss tool.
June 30, 2021
Natural Vasodilators for Athletes
Thanks to our deep fondness for oversimplified interpretations, most of us (we’re not exempting ourselves) have held the belief at one point or another that our arteries and veins are static, rigid tunnels.
June 23, 2021
Does Calcium Really Prevent Iron Absorption?
Iron has a bone to pick with calcium, and for good reason—maybe.
June 23, 2021
The Economic Impact of Nutrition
Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked while mulling over lunch choices: How is this decision going to impact the economy?
June 14, 2021
The Healthy Food Swaps Master List
Making healthy food swaps is a great opportunity to live in the positive—to think about the (surprisingly) tasty stuff you can still eat, not what you’re giving up.
June 10, 2021
Nutrition and Heart Health: A General Overview
The heart is more than just a pump, which is why nutrition for heart health can get a little complicated.
May 21, 2021
Seek Out These Nutrients to Reduce Cataract Risk
As has been the case with so many other eye diseases, when investigating any nutritional influences on the risk of developing cataracts, we were reintroduced by the research to a very familiar roster of nutrients.
May 21, 2021
Does Diet Matter for Macular Degeneration Patients?
Too often, highly common eye disorders like macular degeneration are lumped in with general aging-related vision loss and subsequently swept under the rug, which hurts everyone involved in the patient’s case.
May 21, 2021
Meet the Probiotics A-Team
One of several casualties of the single-minded assault on germs sponsored jointly by cleaning product commercials and modern healthcare providers is the collective misunderstanding of probiotics.
May 21, 2021
Anti-Inflammatory Foods for Colitis, Crohn’s, and More
When inflammation becomes a state, and not a protective response, the body tends to react poorly.
May 20, 2021
How Diabetes Raises Heart Disease Risk
While it may be convenient to put each health concern in a box, focusing on one treatment at a time, the diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) connection provides an important lesson: the human body doesn’t work that way.
May 20, 2021
Abdominal Weight and Insulin Resistance
Recognizing the connection between weight status and insulin resistance is a start, but understanding the actual mechanics involved provides a crucial defense against diabetes.
May 18, 2021
Nutrition and Cancer: An Introductory Guide
Chemotherapy and surgery may currently preside as the most effective treatments for cancer, but they can’t do what nutrition therapy can—they can’t (reasonably) prevent the cancer from forming in the first place.
May 8, 2021
Safe Sweets for Diabetics
For diabetics, the knee-jerk reaction of swearing off sweets altogether can be problematic for a number of reasons.
May 7, 2021
Foods to Eat (and Avoid) While Undergoing Chemotherapy
In the chemotherapy patient’s personal war against cancer, every ounce of control they can wrestle away from the disease is a victory that can contribute to brighter outcomes—especially when it means they can eat foods they enjoy again.
May 7, 2021
The Carcinogenic Foods Master List
Fear has a way of dimming the details, but it’s in the details that health-conscious people looking to reduce their cancer risk can find success.
May 7, 2021
Nutrition’s Role in Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery
Nutrition is understandably not priority one in the chaotic moments immediately following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), but as soon as the patient is stable, nutrition therapy shares center stage with other key tenets of TBI rehabilitation.
May 6, 2021
Nutrition Psychiatry: How Food Impacts Mental Health
Food is for physical wellness, and pharmaceutical products are for mental health conditions—that’s where most of us land when it comes to nutrition psychiatry.
May 6, 2021
Dieting vs Intuitive Eating
It may seem like a relatively new issue, but really, the dieting vs intuitive eating debate is just the latest incarnation of an age-old dilemma: is it better to plow through obstacles or go around them?
May 6, 2021
Analyzing Superhero Diets: Are They Actually Healthy?
While the real heroes of Greek and North mythology sustained themselves on nectar, ambrosia, and mead, modern-day actors on the superhero diet have to settle for considerably less elysian fare—think grilled chicken, and lots of it.
May 5, 2021
The Longevity Diet
The very existence (not to mention, empirically proven success) of the longevity diet requires many of us to refresh our own understanding of aging, which is not a function of time alone.
May 5, 2021
Second Thoughts On Six-Pack Abs
Just a few centuries ago, wealthy aristocrats would have chuckled wryly over the rims of their fancy goblets at the thought of six-pack abs, which were considered a mark of the peasantry.
May 5, 2021
Yes, These Foods Contain Added Sugars
Normally, we’re content to bounce around new and/or controversial theories on nutritional concepts all day, but every so often, we have the luxury of seeing in black and white.
May 5, 2021
The Vacationer’s Guide to Healthy Eating
This may seem like a fun-killing exercise at first, but we’re not interested in coddling or pandering to our readers, so let’s get the harsh reality out of the way: most of us haven’t earned the right to binge on vacation.
May 5, 2021
Does High-Temperature Cooking Increase Cancer Risk?
“X thing you love causes cancer” is quickly entering The Boy Who Cried Wolf territory—we’ve all heard it so many times that we are becoming jaded.
May 5, 2021
Introducing the Ultimate Hair-Growth Diet
Nutrition is for losing belly fat, and overpriced, medicated goop is for hair loss—that’s how most of us are conditioned to think.
May 5, 2021
Safe and Sustainable Ways to Boost Metabolism
In actuality, metabolism refers to any chemical reaction taking place at the cellular level in living organisms—many of them having nothing to do with weight loss.
March 31, 2021
The Breatharian Diet: Can We Live Without Food?
Practitioners and teachers of true breatharianism do not believe in eating food or drinking water; they believe that they can survive on “prana” (the Hindu concept of energy or lifeblood) provided from solar rays, the air, and the energy around them.
March 31, 2021
The Weird Science of Lactose Intolerance
Not only is lactose intolerance common, it’s so prevalent across the world, doctors are hesitant to even acknowledge it as a diagnosable condition.
March 31, 2021
The Science of Craving
Junk food and fast food companies have become so adept at milking our prehistorically rooted cravings for fat, salt, and simple carbs that they don’t even need to hide their tricks anymore.
March 31, 2021
An Introduction to the Mediterranean Diet
We often stress the importance of seeking out the healthiest versions of wrongfully stigmatized nutrients (i.e., fat and carbs) instead of avoiding them, a concept that the Mediterranean diet embodies perfectly.
March 31, 2021
Is Intermittent Fasting Safe and Effective?
Intermittent fasting typifies this concept to the letter, as the diet’s somewhat polarizing debut (or rather, comeback) in recent years played over a clattering din of celebrity support on social media, a wave of fitness and nutrition books, and other highly visible mentions.
March 31, 2021
Is Drinking Water While Eating Bad?
To question something so well-ingrained into centuries-old mealtime norms may seem foolish at first, but modern science grants free passes to no one.
March 31, 2021
5 Tips for Gaining Weight the Healthy Way
It’s hard to preach the perils of being underweight as the phrase “obesity epidemic” ages into its fourth decade, but still, weighing too little can pose serious health risks in both short-term and long-term scenarios.
March 31, 2021
Should You Really Eat Like a Caveman?
It’s no surprise that present-day Americans struggling against unprecedented obesity rates would romanticize the idea of a pre-industrial diet—you can’t “cheat” if there’s nothing to cheat with.
February 21, 2021
Why Vegetable Oils Are Unhealthy
There’s something disarming about seeing the word “corn,” “safflower,” or “vegetable” sandwiched between fifteen-letter-long preservatives on food labels, which is one reason why unhealthy vegetable oils have evaded serious criticism for so long.
February 21, 2021
Nutrition and Brain Health: How it Works
Navigating the current knowledge base in regards to brain-boosting foods often feels strangely paradoxical, like we know too much and not enough at the same time.
January 4, 2021
Is Turmeric Worth the Hype?
Turmeric inhabits an interesting place (or rather, several places) in the ever-evolving health supplement industry.
January 4, 2021