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Not every important nutrient falls into the categories of vitamins, minerals, or amino acids. Many naturally occurring compounds also play valuable roles in supporting your body’s normal functions, overall wellness, and long term health.
In this category, you’ll find evidence based guides covering a wide range of essential and beneficial nutrients that do not fit into the traditional nutrient groups. Our articles explore other naturally occurring compounds and their functions, food sources, recommended intake when available, potential health benefits, safety considerations, and the latest scientific research.
Whether you’re expanding your nutrition knowledge or looking for reliable information about a specific nutrient, this collection will help you better understand the many substances that contribute to a healthy diet.
The Gut Health Conversation Nobody Saw Coming I’ve spent a long time watching the gut health world chase one shiny object after another. Probiotics had their decade. Prebiotics elbowed their way in right behind them. And now there’s a new word showing up on yogurt labels and supplement bottles: postbiotics. If you rolled your eyes … Read more
The Trillions of Tenants Living Inside You Somewhere between your last meal and this sentence, roughly forty trillion microorganisms are going about their business inside your intestines. That number still stops me for a second every time I write it down, even after years of digging through the research. You are, in a very real … Read more
The Quiet Nutrient That Runs the Show in Your Gut Ask most people what keeps their digestion running smoothly and you’ll hear about probiotics, yogurt, maybe a kombucha habit. Almost nobody mentions the thing that actually feeds those bacteria in the first place. That’s prebiotics, and honestly, after spending years digging through gut health research, … Read more
The Tiny Moss Compound Everyone in Brain Health Keeps Talking About I still remember the first time someone handed me a bottle and asked, half-joking, half-serious, “so is this the stuff that’s gonna make me smarter?” It was a small brown jar with a green label, a handful of capsules rattling around inside, and the … Read more
The Fat Your Brain Refuses to Function Without I’ve spent more years than I care to admit reading fat molecules like other people read novels, and if there’s one lipid that never gets the attention it deserves, it’s sphingomyelin. Everybody wants to talk about omega-3s. Everybody wants to talk about cholesterol, good or bad, high … Read more