Nutrition For Mortals
Episodes
The Hormone Balancing Hoax
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The phrase "balance your hormones" is popping up everywhere. Social media influencers are pushing raw carrot salad for estrogen balance and ...
Counting Down Toxic Fitness Trends (with Michael Ulloa)
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just like in the world of nutrition, the fitness industry is rife with misinformation and toxic messaging. Today we are joined by our first ever guest...
Let's Talk About Noom...
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Noom! The app that has revolutionized weight loss by using psychology! But has it? Most of us have seen Noom ads on social media, on television, or as...
Plant Panic!! (Anti-Nutrients & Seed Oils)
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The carnivore diet has recently been gaining popularity... But why? Are there truly aspects of plant foods that can harm our health or is this just an...
Vitamin C (Friends Forever)
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vitamin C and the common cold have been inexorably linked for decades. Because of this, many of us tend to down some OJ or mix up some Emergen-C when ...
Is Diet Soda Bad For You?
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cancer! Alzheimer’s! Heart Disease! Diet soda has A LOT of health risk claims swirling around it. So much so that it feels really hard to know wheth...
Food is NOT Thy Medicine
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘Let Food Be Thy Medicine’. Besides being a classic opening for many wellness speeches, this phrase is often used t...
Ingredient Households, Almond Moms, & The Clean Plate Club
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ingredient Households. Almond Moms. The Clean Plate Club. Most of us have seen these buzzwords floating around on social media. But more than hashtags...
Alkaline Water & pHony Diets
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alkaline water is lining shelves. Celebrities like Tom Brady, Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow have all claimed that an ‘alkaline diet’ has improve...
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment is a truly remarkable piece of nutrition research conducted during wartime in the 1940s. It’s an experiment that...
Intuitive Eating in a Nutshell
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Intuitive Eating is a non-diet framework that can drastically improve how people relate to food, however it’s often mischaracterized or misunderstoo...
Sugar is NOT a Drug
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us have heard the claim that sugar is more addictive than cocaine. We’re tired of this unhelpful and unsubstantiated framing. In today's...
"Dishing" About Serving Sizes
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Serving sizes have been a central part of the nutrition label for years, but there continues to be a lot of confusion around how exactly serving sizes...
The Insane World of Food Sensitivity Tests
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all seen the ads. The ones telling us that with one. simple. test. we can finally know exactly which foods are good for our bodies and which o...
WTF are: Adaptogens?
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode in the WTF series! WTFisode? In this series we’ll define and explore common nutrition buzzwords and trends that are ubi...
Are There Actually Good and Bad Foods?
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us tend to automatically label foods as “good” or “bad,” but are these labels helpful or harmful? And does nutrition science even prov...
Intro!
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are two registered dietitians and friends who believe that life is too short to spend your time and attention worrying about your food choices. In ...