The Journal

Where evidence becomes essay

Twice-weekly long-form pieces — written carefully, sourced thoroughly, aimed at the questions that don’t fit on a research result page.

All essays SavedForThe newly diagnosed The optimizer The caregiver The practitioner The wellness seekerTopic · seeded from published essaysTherapeutic Nutrition Nutrigenomics Whole Foods Microbiome Gut Health

Featured this week

One size never fit all

Two people eating the same meal can land in two different metabolic places — and the research is finally catching up to what cooks and clinicians always suspected.

~7 min read · For the clinician · 4 library citations · Wed, May 13

The Forager

The whole-food matrix

A tomato is not the same as the sum of its lycopene, potassium, and water — and forty years of supplement trials are finally explaining why.

~8 min

The Sage

The gut, and the rest of you

A growing body of evidence connects what happens in the intestine to what happens nearly everywhere else — and the conversation runs in both directions.

~9 min