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Field Notes

The lectin question, examined

Steven Gundry, The Plant Paradox, and what to make of a popular thesis the field has rejected

Gundry argues that lectins — a class of plant proteins — are responsible for chronic inflammation, autoimmune disease, and obesity. The book has sold millions; the mainstream nutrition community has dismissed it. A closer look at where the argument is right, where it falls apart, and why elimination diets keep producing apparent results.

#nutrition #contested #evidence #seed-oils #supplements

By Mick

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Mind & Method

The morning protocol industrial complex

What the evidence actually supports, and why the format keeps spreading

A genre has emerged in which a successful person describes their twelve-step morning routine and the audience is invited to copy it. The interesting question is not whether the protocols work — some do, some don't — but why the format itself has become the thing.

#habits #circadian #caffeine #light #mental-models #contested #stress

By Mick

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Longevity Practice

Compression of morbidity

James Fries's 1980 paper and the longevity goal worth wanting

The goal of medicine, Fries argued, should not be to extend life but to compress the period of late-life disease into as short a window as possible. Forty-five years on, the framework remains the right way to think about the longevity project — and a useful corrective to the language of "anti-ageing".

#ageing #healthspan #mortality #biomarkers

By Mick

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