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- Adrian (Team Dietitian) | The 8% Author
The 8% Newsletter
Should You Take Vitamin C When You Get Sick?
Good morning! Vitamin C is probably the supplement most people feel confident about. It's been around forever, it's cheap, and aside from the other health benefits, there's a general understanding that it helps with colds. What most people don't know...
Good morning! Your tooth enamel is the hardest substance your body produces. Harder than bone. It handles decades of chewing, grinding, and exposure to everything you eat and drink. The problem is, when it starts to go, it doesn't grow...
Good morning! We’ve all heard the claim that cancer cells feed on glucose, so cutting off your sugar intake is a foolproof way to “starve” a tumor and aid in its treatment… right?. As it turns out, that logic oversimplifies...
Bloating? Here's What's Going On
Good morning! So here’s a question… do you know what bloating is? Maybe it's a stomach that feels uncomfortably full after dinner, a waistband that seems to get tighter as the day goes on, or that familiar feeling that your...
Why You Should Care About Building Muscle
Good morning! Somewhere along the way, muscle became a vanity metric. It became something you worried about if you lived at the gym, followed fitness influencers, or had a pair of shorts that needed to look particularly impressive. For everyone...
Good morning! Most of us think about body fat in terms of what you see. The number on the scale, how our jeans fit, what the mirror says back at us. But not all fat plays by the same rules,...
Wait... Prediabetes Is Reversible?
Good morning! About 2 in 5 American adults have prediabetes. Around 90% of people who have it don’t know they do because there are no clear symptoms, no dramatic warning signs, just a blood sugar number sitting in a range...
Butter, Margarine, and 60 Years of Confusion
Good morning! Few nutrition debates have flip-flopped as dramatically as butter versus margarine. Butter was demonized for decades, margarine was sold as the healthy alternative, then margarine became the villain, and now butter is having a cultural comeback while scientists...
Good morning! Mercury in fish is one of those topics that tends to generate two equally unhelpful responses: either people panic and cut out fish entirely, or they wave it off as overblown. Neither is justified by what the research...