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Field notes on health, formulation, and the science behind Temple Foods.
RDAs Explained: Why the "Recommended" Daily Allowance Is Keeping You Sick
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NAC and Glutathione: The Amino Acid the Supplement Industry Is Not Telling You About
The Supplement Industry Told You a Lie About Glutathione Not through misinformation, exactly. Through selective truth. Here is what they told you: cysteine is the rate-limiting amino acid in glutathione synthesis. NAC supplies cysteine in a bioavailable form. Therefore NAC raises glutathione. Take NAC. That logic is technically correct. And strategically incomplete — because in the majority of adults eating a modern diet, cysteine is not the actual bottleneck. The bottleneck is glycine. And...
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What Is NMN? The Anti-Aging Supplement Explained
The Land Scam That Launched an Anti-Aging Industry Before Charles Ponzi made his name synonymous with fraud, there was a simpler con. Salesmen would stand in European cities and sell parcels of land in the United States — land the buyers had never seen, in a country they had never visited, with no way to verify it existed. The buyer would hand over their savings, the salesman would disappear, and the buyer would spend years telling themselves the investment would eventually pay off. They...
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Lion's Mane Mushroom: Brain Benefits Backed by Science
Your Great-Grandmother Didn't Need a Mushroom Capsule Your great-grandmother never took a Lion's Mane capsule for brain fog. She didn't have brain fog. That should tell you something. She worked, remembered names, thought clearly, and aged with her mind intact — without a single adaptogenic mushroom supplement in the house. The question worth asking isn't "does Lion's Mane work?" The real question is: why do so many people today feel like they need it? I sell Lion's Mane through Living Labs....
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Collagen Peptides: What the Science Actually Says
The Supplement That Sounds Too Good to Be True I almost didn't stock collagen peptides. Not because I doubted the science — I'd read enough to know there's something real here — but because of the people selling it. Walk into any South African pharmacy or gym supplement shop and you'll find collagen peptides packaged in pink boxes next to promises that sound like a 1990s face cream advert. "Youthful skin in 30 days." "Rebuild your joints overnight." The supplement industry's tendency to dress...
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Ashwagandha Benefits: The Complete South African Guide
The Supplement Industry Wants You Anxious Here's a thought that might ruin your morning: the supplement industry makes more money when you're stressed. Anxious people buy more products. They Google more solutions. They're easier to sell to because they're desperate for something — anything — to make the noise stop. So when the entire internet tells you ashwagandha is the answer to your stress, your anxiety, your sleepless nights — ask yourself who benefits from that message. I run a...
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