
The Boring Truth About Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting has a thousand devoted fans, a thousand skeptics, and approximately one clear scientific verdict. Here's what the research actually says — no transformation story required.
Cal Reeves·7 articles

Intermittent fasting has a thousand devoted fans, a thousand skeptics, and approximately one clear scientific verdict. Here's what the research actually says — no transformation story required.
Cal Reeves·
The number on your scale tells you almost nothing about your metabolic health. Here's the biochemistry of visceral fat — the hidden tissue driving insulin resistance, inflammation, and cardiovascular risk from deep inside your abdomen.
Theo Marsh·
For decades, diet culture treated hunger as a failure of willpower. New research on appetite hormones, metabolic flexibility, and circadian eating rhythms tells a very different story — and the implications are damning.
Jules Cortez·
You've been told to eat more fiber for decades. But not what it actually does. Two landmark 2024–2025 studies finally explain the mechanism — and it's not about constipation.
Jules Cortez·
Your hunger hormones don't care how hard you tried. After weight loss, your body wages a biological counterattack — and it's not your fault. Here's the science, and what to do about it.
Margot Laine·
Ultra-processed food doesn't just make you eat more — new research shows it may structurally alter the brain regions that decide what and how much you want to eat. Follow the evidence.
Jules Cortez·
You're eating plenty but still hungry an hour later. The science behind protein leverage explains why — and the fix is simpler than you think.
Cal Reeves·