Saying bacon is a great potassium source is like saying peanut butter is a great protein source. You have to eat 10 slices of bacon (~450 calories) to get the same amount of potassium as 1 medium banana (~100 calories). Alternatively, eat half an avocado same potassium 🥑

>57% below RDA (which is already too low), wild. Even more likely below the now recommended 1.2-1.6 g/kg/d. Once you start noticing how little protein people are actually eating in real life, it's hard to ignore!

Changing Coke from high fructose corn syrup to cane sugar is just like rearranging the chairs on the titanic. Good work y’all 😂😂😂

NutritionNerd chiming in here to let you all know that switching the sugar source in Coca-Cola from High Fructose Corn Syrup to Cane Sugar will result in precisely zero improvement to individual or population-level health in our country. 1/

Step count shows an inverse relationship with mortality. The largest benefits are seen with ~7000 steps/day, but risks continued to decrease to a smaller extent w/every additional 1000 steps/day up 12 000 steps/day (the highest # analyzed). thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

I want my LDL cholesterol nice and low 🤷‍♂️

You don’t always need to feel good to get going. Sometimes you need to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good. So much of life comes down to a gentle yet firm persistence to show up and get started on the things that matter to you.

PREACH! "That’s why building muscle—and safeguarding it—is a critical piece of the GLP-1 story, not just a footnote"

Metabolic Assessment 101: A) Assess Anthropometrics🟢 B) Assess Dietary Intake🟢 C) Assess Clinical Chemistries 🟢 D) Look at the pediatric patient to diagnose mitochondrial and inflammatory disease 🚫

The seafood diet is a classic dad joke and an opportunity for grifters. Coming January 2026: The Seafood Diet: Scratch the Turf, just Surf by Saul Paladino. A book about how eating only seafood cures all our problems. ? Carnivore 2.0

Exercising 150 minutes per week for 4 months is equally as effective as taking an antidepressant for depression, review finds. Get outside and get moving. Start small and easy. For many, a walk is enough when you are starting.

September 1 feels more like the start of a new year than January 1.

Two clients, same day, similar story...both on metformin, both no family doc, both with clinically low B12. These are simple things that should be caught way earlier. How, or who, bridges the gap between virtual docs and adequate follow ups for known deficiency risks?

Muscle is an endocrine organ. Building muscle & focusing on muscle health is one of the best ways to go from prediabetes to no diabetes. Approach it from both sides, nutrition & resistance training. You don't have to eat/train (or inject) like a body builder to get benefits.

The most f—ed up thing is the tens of thousands of mothers now wracked by needless guilt for taking acetaminophen. And thousands more currently pregnant women living in terror because they took it. Wanton cruelty inflicted on people who are already vulnerable. And for what?

ECG techs getting ready to explain for the 9th time today that they can’t determine your cardiac age.

Does nutrition twitter still exist? I used to learn a lot from this place.

Muscle needs to be part of your diabetes and prediabetes protocol 💪

Our 9 month olds favourite food is steak so far. Garlic fingers are a close second.

Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Peter Attia just set the record straight on protein recommendations. It's the best synopsis of "why you should hedge against more protein versus less" that I've heard. My recap 🧵👇