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Nutrition.

What to actually put on your plate when half the internet is yelling and the other half is selling you powder.

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    NutritionMay 22, 2026

    Your healthy breakfast is a sugar bomb wearing a crown.

    Granola, smoothies, oat milk lattes. We have built an entire morning aesthetic out of dessert and called it wellness.

    Mr. Jay

    11 min read

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    NutritionMay 29, 2026

    The ultraprocessed trap nobody tells you you are inside.

    It is not sugar. It is not fat. It is not gluten. The single biggest lever on your weight, your mood, and your blood work is hiding in plain sight on every shelf.

    Mr. Jay

    12 min read

  3. 03
    NutritionMay 31, 2026

    The seed oil panic is a magic trick. Here is what to actually worry about.

    The internet decided seed oils are the new cigarettes. The data is, predictably, more boring and more useful than the panic.

    Mr. Jay

    12 min read

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    NutritionJun 1, 2026

    Protein is the macronutrient nobody overconsumes and everybody underestimates.

    The RDA was built to keep you alive, not to keep you strong. After forty, the gap between surviving and thriving is mostly written in grams of protein per kilogram of bodyweight.

    Mr. Jay

    14 min read

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    NutritionJun 8, 2026

    Magnesium is the mineral almost everyone is low on, and almost nobody talks about.

    It sits behind 600 enzymatic reactions, half your sleep quality, and most of your muscle function. The average adult gets about 60 percent of what they need.

    Mr. Jay

    10 min read

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    NutritionJun 25, 2026

    The vegetable oil in your kitchen is quietly undoing everything else you do right.

    We swapped butter for vegetable oil and called it progress. The biology is starting to suggest we got the trade wrong.

    Mr. Jay

    13 min read

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    NutritionJul 1, 2026

    The protein quality gap between plants and animals is larger than the fitness industry admits.

    A gram of protein is not a gram of protein. The amino acid profile, digestibility, and bioavailability of plant and animal proteins differ dramatically, and your muscles know the difference.

    Mr. Jay

    13 min read

  8. 08
    NutritionJun 15, 2026

    Processed food is engineered to hijack a dopamine circuit older than agriculture.

    The food industry does not want to nourish you. It wants to make you eat more. And it has reverse engineered the human brain to do it.

    Mr. Jay

    14 min read