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MSG & Glutamate PART 3: Surprising Real-World Results for Copper, Zinc, Sleep, Hormones & Food Cravings

What if one of the most demonized food ingredients of the past 50 years could actually help people who have been struggling to improve their health? What if someone could improve their zinc...

MSG & Glutamate PART 2: The Overlooked Connections to Ammonia Detox, Energy, Nutrient Absorption & Cellular Protection

What if adding a specific (and inexpensive) seasoning to your food could help your body get EVEN MORE out of the protein you’re already eating? What if it could help your body process toxic ammonia...

The Great MSG Lie PART 1: How a Beneficial Amino Acid Was Demonized as a Brain-Damaging “Excitotoxin”

What if one of the most demonized food ingredients of the last 60 years was actually something your body WANTS? What if the supposedly dangerous “excitotoxin” monosodium glutamate (MSG) was an imp...

Nickel in Your Water: Pipes, Plumbing, Faucets, Wells, and the Exposures You Drink

There is a very simple assumption most of us make about drinking water: The water coming out of the faucet is basically the same water the utility tested. Yeah...Not. At. All. This nickel rabbit ho...

The Low-Nickel Diet LYL Version: What to Eat, What to Avoid, and What I’ve Changed

I need to start this one with a correction. Not exactly an “I was wrong about everything” correction. Nothing that dramatic. The basic Love Your Liver framework—reduce toxic inputs, support elimina...

Apples, Pears, Bananas, and WHITE Fruits & Vegetables: Nature Is Trying to Tell Us Something

Some background before we begin. The main visible colors of carotenoids aka “vitamin” A in fruits and vegetables are yellow, orange, and red. On the other hand, the white or cream-colored parts of ...

Nickel in Food: The Supposed “Health Foods” That Quietly Dominate Your Exposure

I used to highly recommend whole grains and beans for their high amounts of soluble fiber. Why? Because it fits perfectly into my Toxic Bile Paradigm by doing a great job of adsorbing toxic bile (w...

Where Is All This Nickel Coming From? The Exposure(s) NO ONE Can Completely Avoid

When I first started going down the nickel rabbit hole, I was mostly thinking about food. Oats. Beans. Nuts. Seeds. Chocolate. The usual “high-nickel diet” stuff. Then you start looking at water. T...

Nickel aka “Devil’s Copper” — How a Poisonous Ore Got Its Name

Nickel has one of the strangest origin stories on the periodic table. Seriously. Most people hear the word nickel and think of the five-cent coin. Maybe stainless steel. Maybe they vaguely remember...

Nickel Toxicity: The Silent Metal Problem Almost Nobody Is Looking For

I’m not going to beat around the bush here. I think nickel toxicity is a massive blind spot in modern health. When most people hear “nickel,” they think about cheap earrings, belt buckles, watch ba...