health

  • (originally posted on Your Angry Pediatrician on Substack, lightly edited) This is a story of how in science, despite our attempts to achieve some understanding of objective reality, context still matters. What seems like a good idea in one instance can become a really bad idea in another, not because the science changed, because it…

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  • Nutrition and Metabolism

    Nutrition is necessarily related to metabolism, because what you eat is what fuels the metabolic processes that make everything happen in your body. It is both extremely simple, and hideously complex at the same time. First, a snapshot of the complexity: This is just one version of a small part of what we know about…

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