Articles
Articles, written by a clinician and reviewed by a doctor
What the evidence supports, what it does not, and where nutrition stops and medicine begins.
27 articles, grouped by the condition each one is used for. Several appear under more than one heading, because several conditions share the same mechanism.
PCOS & PCOD
Insulin resistance, explained without the jargon
One mechanism sits underneath PCOS, fatty liver, acne and stubborn weight.
Read →What actually changes in a PCOS diet
Not a list of forbidden foods — a set of changes to how meals are built.
Read →Hair fall: the causes worth testing for
What you are seeing today started three months ago.
Read →Thyroid
Why weight will not move when your thyroid is underactive
When effort stops producing a result, the problem is often not the effort.
Read →Eight numbers worth understanding on your blood report
Most reports get read for what is flagged. The useful information is often elsewhere.
Read →Iron deficiency starts long before anaemia
A normal haemoglobin does not mean your iron is fine.
Read →Hair fall: the causes worth testing for
What you are seeing today started three months ago.
Read →Diabetes
Insulin resistance, explained without the jargon
One mechanism sits underneath PCOS, fatty liver, acne and stubborn weight.
Read →Eight numbers worth understanding on your blood report
Most reports get read for what is flagged. The useful information is often elsewhere.
Read →Why your waist matters more than the scale
Where fat sits matters more than how much there is — and BMI misses it entirely.
Read →LDL is not the whole picture
A lipid profile holds more information than the one number most people read.
Read →Fatty liver is common, silent and largely reversible
Usually found by accident, usually dismissed — and among the more responsive findings on a report.
Read →Short sleep changes what your body does with food
The effect is measurable, it is large, and it appears within a week.
Read →Cholesterol
Eight numbers worth understanding on your blood report
Most reports get read for what is flagged. The useful information is often elsewhere.
Read →Why your waist matters more than the scale
Where fat sits matters more than how much there is — and BMI misses it entirely.
Read →LDL is not the whole picture
A lipid profile holds more information than the one number most people read.
Read →Fatty liver is common, silent and largely reversible
Usually found by accident, usually dismissed — and among the more responsive findings on a report.
Read →Acidity & digestion
Weight gain & obesity
Why weight will not move when your thyroid is underactive
When effort stops producing a result, the problem is often not the effort.
Read →Insulin resistance, explained without the jargon
One mechanism sits underneath PCOS, fatty liver, acne and stubborn weight.
Read →Why your waist matters more than the scale
Where fat sits matters more than how much there is — and BMI misses it entirely.
Read →Why diets stop working around week eight
The stall is not a failure of discipline. It is a predictable physiological response.
Read →Fatty liver is common, silent and largely reversible
Usually found by accident, usually dismissed — and among the more responsive findings on a report.
Read →Menopause: what actually changes, and what to do about it
It is not that you are doing less. The rules changed.
Read →Short sleep changes what your body does with food
The effect is measurable, it is large, and it appears within a week.
Read →Stress, cortisol and the weight that will not shift
A real mechanism, surrounded by a great deal of nonsense.
Read →Blood pressure
Why your waist matters more than the scale
Where fat sits matters more than how much there is — and BMI misses it entirely.
Read →Salt, potassium and blood pressure
Most of the sodium in an Indian diet is not in the salt shaker.
Read →LDL is not the whole picture
A lipid profile holds more information than the one number most people read.
Read →Uric acid: what raises it, and what the old advice got wrong
The forbidden-food list most people are given is decades behind the evidence.
Read →Anaemia
Eight numbers worth understanding on your blood report
Most reports get read for what is flagged. The useful information is often elsewhere.
Read →Iron deficiency starts long before anaemia
A normal haemoglobin does not mean your iron is fine.
Read →Nutrition before and during early pregnancy
The groundwork happens in the months before the test is positive.
Read →Hair fall: the causes worth testing for
What you are seeing today started three months ago.
Read →Constipation
IBS
Acidity is usually not about too much acid
The acid is meant to be there. The problem is where it ends up.
Read →The gut and the brain are on one line
Symptoms worsened by stress are not imagined symptoms.
Read →Why adding fibre sometimes makes constipation worse
The advice is right. The way it is usually followed is not.
Read →Fatty liver
Insulin resistance, explained without the jargon
One mechanism sits underneath PCOS, fatty liver, acne and stubborn weight.
Read →Eight numbers worth understanding on your blood report
Most reports get read for what is flagged. The useful information is often elsewhere.
Read →Why your waist matters more than the scale
Where fat sits matters more than how much there is — and BMI misses it entirely.
Read →LDL is not the whole picture
A lipid profile holds more information than the one number most people read.
Read →Fatty liver is common, silent and largely reversible
Usually found by accident, usually dismissed — and among the more responsive findings on a report.
Read →Piles
Joint pain
Vitamin D deficiency in a country with abundant sun
Sunlight is necessary and, for most urban Indians, not sufficient.
Read →What an anti-inflammatory diet can and cannot do for joints
The honest version is narrower than the marketing version, and more useful.
Read →Uric acid: what raises it, and what the old advice got wrong
The forbidden-food list most people are given is decades behind the evidence.
Read →Osteoarthritis
Vitamin D deficiency in a country with abundant sun
Sunlight is necessary and, for most urban Indians, not sufficient.
Read →What an anti-inflammatory diet can and cannot do for joints
The honest version is narrower than the marketing version, and more useful.
Read →Menopause: what actually changes, and what to do about it
It is not that you are doing less. The rules changed.
Read →Gout
Migraine
Acne
Insulin resistance, explained without the jargon
One mechanism sits underneath PCOS, fatty liver, acne and stubborn weight.
Read →What actually changes in a PCOS diet
Not a list of forbidden foods — a set of changes to how meals are built.
Read →What diet does and does not do for skin
Some dietary claims about skin are well supported. Most are not.
Read →Psoriasis
Vitamin D deficiency in a country with abundant sun
Sunlight is necessary and, for most urban Indians, not sufficient.
Read →What an anti-inflammatory diet can and cannot do for joints
The honest version is narrower than the marketing version, and more useful.
Read →What diet does and does not do for skin
Some dietary claims about skin are well supported. Most are not.
Read →Hair fall
Why weight will not move when your thyroid is underactive
When effort stops producing a result, the problem is often not the effort.
Read →What actually changes in a PCOS diet
Not a list of forbidden foods — a set of changes to how meals are built.
Read →Iron deficiency starts long before anaemia
A normal haemoglobin does not mean your iron is fine.
Read →What diet does and does not do for skin
Some dietary claims about skin are well supported. Most are not.
Read →Hair fall: the causes worth testing for
What you are seeing today started three months ago.
Read →Alopecia areata
Menopause
Why weight will not move when your thyroid is underactive
When effort stops producing a result, the problem is often not the effort.
Read →Why diets stop working around week eight
The stall is not a failure of discipline. It is a predictable physiological response.
Read →Vitamin D deficiency in a country with abundant sun
Sunlight is necessary and, for most urban Indians, not sufficient.
Read →Menopause: what actually changes, and what to do about it
It is not that you are doing less. The rules changed.
Read →Fertility support
What actually changes in a PCOS diet
Not a list of forbidden foods — a set of changes to how meals are built.
Read →Iron deficiency starts long before anaemia
A normal haemoglobin does not mean your iron is fine.
Read →Nutrition before and during early pregnancy
The groundwork happens in the months before the test is positive.
Read →Pregnancy nutrition
Anxiety
The gut and the brain are on one line
Symptoms worsened by stress are not imagined symptoms.
Read →Menopause: what actually changes, and what to do about it
It is not that you are doing less. The rules changed.
Read →Stress, cortisol and the weight that will not shift
A real mechanism, surrounded by a great deal of nonsense.
Read →ADHD and nutrition: separating evidence from claim
A field with a great deal of confident advice and comparatively little evidence.
Read →Insomnia
The gut and the brain are on one line
Symptoms worsened by stress are not imagined symptoms.
Read →Migraine triggers: what is real and what is coincidence
The food you blame may be a symptom of the attack, not its cause.
Read →Menopause: what actually changes, and what to do about it
It is not that you are doing less. The rules changed.
Read →Short sleep changes what your body does with food
The effect is measurable, it is large, and it appears within a week.
Read →ADHD and nutrition: separating evidence from claim
A field with a great deal of confident advice and comparatively little evidence.
Read →Stress
The gut and the brain are on one line
Symptoms worsened by stress are not imagined symptoms.
Read →Migraine triggers: what is real and what is coincidence
The food you blame may be a symptom of the attack, not its cause.
Read →Short sleep changes what your body does with food
The effect is measurable, it is large, and it appears within a week.
Read →Stress, cortisol and the weight that will not shift
A real mechanism, surrounded by a great deal of nonsense.
Read →ADHD
Short sleep changes what your body does with food
The effect is measurable, it is large, and it appears within a week.
Read →Stress, cortisol and the weight that will not shift
A real mechanism, surrounded by a great deal of nonsense.
Read →ADHD and nutrition: separating evidence from claim
A field with a great deal of confident advice and comparatively little evidence.
Read →Low immunity
Vitamin D deficiency in a country with abundant sun
Sunlight is necessary and, for most urban Indians, not sufficient.
Read →Immunity: what actually works and what is sold
A well-regulated immune system is the goal. A boosted one is not.
Read →Asthma, allergy and what food has to do with it
Nutrition has a supporting role here — and being exact about its size matters.
Read →Recurrent throat infection: when to stop treating and start investigating
Repeated courses of antibiotics is a pattern worth questioning.
Read →Asthma
Allergies
What diet does and does not do for skin
Some dietary claims about skin are well supported. Most are not.
Read →Immunity: what actually works and what is sold
A well-regulated immune system is the goal. A boosted one is not.
Read →Asthma, allergy and what food has to do with it
Nutrition has a supporting role here — and being exact about its size matters.
Read →Recurrent throat infection: when to stop treating and start investigating
Repeated courses of antibiotics is a pattern worth questioning.
Read →Tonsillitis
Acidity is usually not about too much acid
The acid is meant to be there. The problem is where it ends up.
Read →Immunity: what actually works and what is sold
A well-regulated immune system is the goal. A boosted one is not.
Read →Recurrent throat infection: when to stop treating and start investigating
Repeated courses of antibiotics is a pattern worth questioning.
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