Category: Health Tips

You might not be aware that you are in a daily battle to retain your health, but you are.

“Fat is bad, eat more grains.”

Except fats are vital to transport fat
soluble vitamins in the body and obesity
rates have since exploded.

No conflict here, move along please.

Remove the toxic conflicts from your life.
Stabilize the front line and reclaim lost territory.
Aim for food peace and bodily health.
Eat real ingredients.

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You might not be aware that you are in a daily battle to retain your health, but you are.

I posted the 20 best foods on earth. Many people saw it. The reply section exploded.

The carnivores said I included too many vegetables. The plant-based crowd said I included too much meat. Someone told me spinach was poisoning people. Someone else told me I should be in jail for recommending beef liver.

I listened to all of it. Went back to the data. This is Version 2. 40 foods. Updated.

Spinach is gone. Fermented foods are in. Organ meats expanded. Every plant on this list is low-oxalate or cooked to reduce antinutrients.

No tribe won. The science won.

Finish reading: https://x.com/markkaplan20/status/2079906122451018090?s=20

Some reports estimate that moms are interrupted every three minutes—hundreds of times each day. Whether the exact number is 200 or 400, every parent knows the feeling.

Each interruption forces your brain to pause, switch gears, and start over. Research shows that frequent interruptions increase cognitive load, reduce working memory, and raise stress levels. So if you’ve ever walked into a room and forgotten why, lost your train of thought mid-sentence, or felt mentally drained before lunch, you’re not imagining it.

Motherhood isn’t just physically demanding. It’s one of the most cognitively demanding jobs there is. So if you’re raising little humans while juggling a hundred invisible tasks, give yourself some grace. Your brain isn’t broken—it’s been asked to do the impossible all day long.

Fermented foods lowered inflammation over 17 weeks. Adding more fiber did not.

That’s the finding from a Stanford randomized trial, and it should reframe how we think about feeding the gut.

Researchers assigned healthy adults to one of two microbiome-targeted diets, high-fiber or high-fermented-food, and ran deep immune and microbiome profiling across 17 weeks. The expectation going in was intuitive: fiber feeds your bacteria, so more of it should mean a healthier microbiome and lower inflammation.

That’s not what happened.

The high-fiber group’s inflammatory markers stayed flat. Its primary immune outcome, a composite cytokine response score, was unchanged from start to finish. And microbial diversity, one of the more reliable markers of gut resilience, held steady rather than rising.
The fermented-food group moved both. Inflammation declined steadily across the trial. Diversity climbed.

Fiber feeds bacteria the substrate they can digest. The study captured a signature of exactly this – i.e., the microbiome’s glycan-degrading enzyme capacity rose while overall diversity stayed flat, consistent with the existing community upregulating rather than broadening

Fermented foods appear to do something structurally different. Live microbes plus the metabolic byproducts of fermentation seem to expand diversity directly, rather than by feeding what’s already there. Greater diversity tracks with lower inflammatory load, and the fermented arm moved that lever while the fiber arm did not.
One detail worth sitting with: fiber wasn’t inert for everyone. High-fiber consumers split into three distinct immune trajectories, and which one you landed in tracked your baseline microbiome diversity. Fiber’s effect was contingent on the gut that received it. People starting with more diverse microbiomes likely respond differently than this average suggests.

Limitations:
Eighteen people per arm, healthy adults, 17 weeks. Inflammatory markers are intermediate biology, not clinical endpoints. Fiber’s metabolic and cardiovascular benefits are established on separate, far larger evidence, and this trial doesn’t touch them.

But for the specific job of moving the microbiome and inflammation, piling on more fiber wasn’t the lever. The fermented foods, however, moved the needle.

Wastyk, Sonnenburg et al., Cell 2021.