• Gut Health - Nutrition & Supplements - Product Reviews

    The Zinc I Don’t Hand Out for Colds

    October 15, 2026 - By 

    October has a sound in my coaching inbox, and it is not the crunch of leaves. It is the rattle of a zinc lozenge tin. A kid brings a cold home from school, a long run leaves a scratch in the throat, and by Thursday half the group chat is sucking on cherry-flavored metal like it is a personality trait. I keep zinc in the house too. I just do not hand out the lozenge. The bottle I actually reach for is smaller, quieter, and almost never the one on a wellness flat-lay. Zinc L-carnosine. A lot of labels call…

  • Gut Health - Kitchen Wellness - Nutrition & Supplements

    Counter Culture: How Three Bubbling Jars Quietly Retired My Probiotic Budget

    September 6, 2026 - By 

    I spent two years standing in the probiotic aisle like it was a pharmacy confessional — fifty-dollar bottles, promises in foil packaging, and a nagging feeling that most of those little capsules were taking a very expensive ride through my digestive system. Then last spring, one of the dietitians I work with on client meal plans said something that stopped me mid-lecture about gut health: “You know the most reliable probiotic on earth is two dollars of cabbage and a tablespoon of salt, right?” She was mostly joking. I took it as a dare. Six months later, a corner of…

  • Gut Health - Supplements

    The Compound Your Gut Bacteria Make That Nobody Told You About — and Why I Switched to Postbiotics

    July 21, 2026 - By 

    I have been staring at the same shelf of probiotic bottles in my pantry for the better part of a decade. Thirty billion CFUs in the blue bottle. Fifty billion in the white one. A refrigerated capsule that cost me seventy dollars and promised to repopulate my gut with strains I could barely pronounce. And for most of those years, I swallowed them faithfully, trusting that I was doing something profoundly good for my body. Then my nutritionist drew me a diagram on the back of a napkin that made every one of those bottles feel like a detour. She…

  • Gut Health - Supplements

    The Nutrient I Overlooked for Twenty Years — and Why Your Gut Is Running Everything

    July 19, 2026 - By 

    I thought I had my nutrition dialed in. After two decades of competitive athletics, coaching, and writing about wellness, I could recite my macros in my sleep. Protein? Covered. Carbs? Timed to perfection around training. Fats? Avocado, olive oil, almonds — all the right sources. But there was one number on my daily tracker that I kept glossing over, week after week, the same way you skip a stretch you know you should do. Fiber. And it turns out, that single oversight was quietly shaping how my body processed everything else I was putting into it. It wasn’t until a…