Metabolic health, separated from the misinformation.
Insulin resistance, blood sugar, GLP-1 medications, metabolic syndrome — there's a flood of confident, contradictory advice out there. We trace each claim back to the peer-reviewed research and tell you what the evidence actually supports.
Sourced, and labelled
We name every source, and we tell you what kind of evidence it is — a trial, an observation, or a mechanism in mice.
We show the disagreement
Where the science is genuinely contested, we say so — and explain what's settled versus what's still being argued.
Plain language, no hype
Written to inform a decision, not to sell a supplement or a fear. We tell you what the evidence means for you.
What we cover
Four areas where the gap between the research and the advice is widest. Answers are published as we finish them.
Insulin Resistance
What it is, how it's actually measured, and which interventions hold up.
Blood Sugar & CGMs
Glucose spikes, continuous monitors, and what the data does and doesn't tell you.
GLP-1 Medications
Semaglutide, tirzepatide and the rest — benefits, risks, and the open questions.
Metabolic Syndrome
The cluster of risk factors, the real numbers, and what moves them.
“Eating late at night ruins your metabolism.”
Two randomised trials published on the same day, in the same journal, appear to disagree. Read together they settle it: the same calories don't count for more after dark, but a late schedule leaves you hungrier, and that is how it gets you. Night shift workers are the exception.
Read the full breakdownThe evidence we weighed
We publish our rules so you can hold us to them.
How we choose claims, how we rank evidence, what we will and won't cite, and where our advertising stops and our editorial begins. All of it written down, in public.
Read our editorial standards