Zoë Rom 10/1/26 Zoë Rom 10/1/26

Is Gluten Bad for You? Why Everyone Is Still Afraid of Gluten

A third of Americans avoid gluten. About 1% have celiac. We dig into the Dutch famine, Wheat Belly, the nocebo effect, and why bread hits different in Europe.

Zoë Rom 9/17/26 Zoë Rom 9/17/26

Diet Culture and Pyramid Schemes: MLMs and Herbalife

The first MLM in America sold vitamins. Why diet culture and pyramid schemes are one machine: Nutrilite, Herbalife, the FTC, and who actually makes money.

Zoë Rom 9/17/26 Zoë Rom 9/17/26

Is It Actually Your Cortisol? Cortisol Belly & Cortisol Face

Is cortisol belly real? We trace cortisol face, cortisol cocktails, and adrenal fatigue back to big tobacco and a $4.8 billion cortisol supplement economy.

Zoë Rom 8/19/26 Zoë Rom 8/19/26

Are You Addicted to Exercise?

"No days off" is a slogan, a t-shirt, and a diagnostic criterion, depending on who's reading it. Exercise addiction isn't an official diagnosis. That hasn't stopped the culture from deciding it's aspirational.

Zoë Rom 8/6/26 Zoë Rom 8/6/26

Why Is Everyone Scared of Microplastics?

There is no plastic spoon in your brain. There is no credit card in your diet. We regret to inform you that this does not mean everything is fine. Microplastics are the rare wellness panic where the underlying science is real and the numbers everyone repeats are garbage, so we spent an hour separating the two. What the headlines got wrong, what BPA-free doesn't mean, and how much you should actually be thinking about this.

Zoë Rom 7/30/26 Zoë Rom 7/30/26

Why Is Everyone Using Peptides?

BPC-157. TB-500. MOTS-c. If those sound like droids from a Star Wars spinoff, congratulations on your healthy relationship with the internet. For everyone else, peptides went from bodybuilding forums to med spas to your feed, and the human evidence never caught up.

Zoë Rom 7/8/26 Zoë Rom 7/8/26

The Keto Diet: How Does Ketosis Work?

We follow ketosis from a Victorian undertaker's diet pamphlet to Kevin Hall's metabolic ward, then get into what actually happens when you cut carbs: why beta-oxidation has a hard ceiling, why the carbohydrate-insulin hypothesis fell apart the moment anyone controlled the food, and why the harms show up fastest in menstruating athletes.

Zoë Rom 6/25/26 Zoë Rom 6/25/26

Are Seed Oils Actually Bad for You?

Are seed oils bad for you? We break down the science, the unhinged history, and the beef tallow hype, minus the grocery-store panic and the meat sticks.

Zoë Rom 6/10/26 Zoë Rom 6/10/26

Why Am I So Hungry? The Science and Psychology of Hunger

Why am I so hungry? It's not willpower. We trace the real science of hunger, from ghrelin and leptin to the Minnesota starvation experiment and GLP-1s.