Diet & Nutrition
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Among all lifestyle factors, nutrition has the greatest impact on human health — yet it is also the most confused, commercialized, and ideologically distorted domain in medicine.
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For decades, national dietary policy was built not on rigorous metabolic science, but on weak observational research shaped by industry funding, academic bias, and entrenched nutritional dogma.
These low-quality findings were then amplified by media and institutional echo chambers, treated as settled truth, and written into national guidelines.
The result was decades of pseudoscientific nutrition advice that not only failed to improve public health — it made it worse.
Where It Went Wrong
Since the first USDA dietary guidelines in 1977 — and even earlier — the core assumptions have been flawed:
• The “calorie in / calorie out” model reduced metabolism to basic arithmetic — and failed.
• Low-fat, “heart-healthy” grains, fruits, and vegetables were promoted as universal solutions — without outcomes to justify them.
• Industrial seed oils were labeled “heart-protective” simply because they lowered cholesterol — while traditional saturated fats were unfairly demonized.
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These recommendations shaped the eating patterns of entire populations for over half a century — and the outcome was unmistakable:
Unprecedented levels of obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease, cardiovascular disease, and chronic inflammation.
Yet instead of questioning the framework, the blame was placed on patients — labeled as non-compliant, undisciplined, food-addicted, or genetically doomed. Those who challenged the narrative were dismissed, silenced, or ridiculed.
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This was the largest uncontrolled dietary experiment in human history — and it failed.
The Truth
• Metabolism is hormonal, adaptive, and complex — not a simple “energy imbalance.”
• Food quality matters more than food quantity.
• Industrial seed oils and ultra-processed grains are primary drivers of metabolic dysfunction and chronic inflammation — not natural saturated fats or red meat, which humans have consumed for millennia.
• The Standard American Diet (SAD) is, quite literally, sad — and nearly any whole-food diet is superior.
• For most people, a whole-food mixed diet that includes both animal and plant foods is the most balanced, nutrient-dense, and sustainable approach.
Our Approach
We do not prescribe a single “correct” diet for everyone or engage in diet wars.
• Different bodies respond differently.
• Culture, tradition, taste, and financial reality matter.
• A diet is only effective if you can sustain it long-term.
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We individualize nutrition — aligning physiology and metabolism with your preferences, cultural identity, health history, and goals — so your diet is not just effective, but realistic and sustainable for life.