• Canadian regulation of supplements… a disappointment

    Supplements in the US and Canada: different countries, different rules, same outcome May 2, 2026 Canada regulates supplements on paper, but the rules are very loose and, in some instances, nonsensical. Worse… in practice, the regulations are poorly, and rarely,…

  • Livestock’s Long Shadow

    A link to the World Health Organization’s FAO paper on the effects of our dietary choices on the environment seems timely, given recent weather related…

  • What did our ancestors eat?

    To put it bluntly, it’s irrelevant. Why? Because humans are still evolving. If our evolution had come to a halt over ten thousand years ago,…

  • Will B vitamins give you an energy boost?

    Yes, say naturopaths, supplements pushers and people operating under the placebo effect, but the evidence is just not there. B vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B6, B9 and B12) play a role in metabolism, specifically, they are cofactors that help convert…

  • “Stuffed” book review

    I recently re-read a review I wrote on “Stuffed”, a book that critiques the roles industry and governments play in the obesity epidemic, and one…

  • The skinny on healthy skin

    Your skin is your largest organ.  On average, this amounts to about 2 square meters of surface and roughly 3 to 4 kilograms of mass.…