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Nutrition

Fuel, timing, protein and the honest state of the diet evidence.

Food is an input to a system that is already running, not a lever with one setting. We look at what the body does with fuel, protein and timing, and at how much of the popular advice the research will actually carry. This is the most crowded subject in the field, so these pieces spend as much time on the state of the evidence as on the conclusions.

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Protein and Muscle After 40

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Many people think of food simply as a source of calories. But from a biological perspective, food does much more than provide energy.

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