Topic
Gut Health & Nutrition Science
The microbiome, fibre, fats, protein and the food system — what the evidence says and where it runs out.
Wellness
The Protein Squeeze
Whey prices have more than doubled. Gina Sakic looks at why, at the leucine threshold and protein needs in perimenopause, and at five-minute breakfas…
Wellness
The Wisdom in the Food
What a travelling dentist, some cats, and a famine winter in Holland can teach us about what we've lost from our plates — and whether we can get it b…
Wellness
The Yellow Monoculture: How One Banana Conquered the World
There are over a thousand banana varieties in the world. Walk into any supermarket and you will find exactly one. How the Cavendish became a global m…
Wellness
The Fat We Were Wrong About: How Saturated Fat Became Public Enemy Number One — and Why the Science Never Agreed
A decades-long consensus built on contested data, suppressed clinical trials, and the industrialisation of food told us that butter kills. The eviden…
Wellness
The Sweet Trap: How Sugar Became the Currency of Childhood
Decades of research, a landmark wartime study, and millions of lived experiences converge on an uncomfortable truth: we are wiring children's brains …
Wellness
The White Powder Pivot: Why Everyone Is Suddenly Taking Creatine
Once the preserve of bodybuilders and locker-room mythology, creatine has been quietly rebranded as a longevity essential. Gina Sakic examines the sc…
Wellness
The Grain that Broke the Gut: The High Cost of the Modern Loaf
From the Val d'Orcia to the laboratory of Alessio Fasano — Gina Sakic asks whether we traded the health of the human gut for the efficiency of the in…
Wellness
The Second Brain: Could the Answer to OCD Live in Your Gut?
For decades, OCD has been treated as a problem of thought patterns. Emerging science suggests the answer may begin in the trillions of microbes that …
Wellness
The Iron Grace: Why I'm Trading My Yoga Mat for a Barbell at 45
For most of her adult life she considered herself fit enough. Active, but never sporty. Lean, but never strong. Then she learned what estrogen actual…
Wellness
The Roughage Revolution: Why Fiber is the New Protein
From Hadza hunter-gatherers to the carnivore diet — Gina Sakic asks whether fiber is medicine or sandpaper in a polluted world.
Culture
The Microbial Renaissance: Why the Most Important Ingredient in Your Diet is Actually Alive
We spent a century scrubbing bacteria from our kitchens. Gina Sakic asks whether that victory cost us our metabolic health.
Culture
Nine Months That Count Forever
Gina Sakic reviews the Glucose Goddess's pivot to prenatal nutrition — warmly pragmatic, occasionally too optimistic, but genuinely useful.
Culture
The Wellness Revolution: How Supplements Became a Lifestyle
From pandemic immunity obsession to biohacking and hyper-personalised nutrition — the tipping point that changed how we think about health forever.
Lifestyle
The Hunger Complex: How Big Food Designed the Ultimate Craving, and the Pharmacological Miracle Hacking Our Brains
In an era of engineered desire, GLP-1 drugs are silencing the relentless food noise. But at what cost?