Once kidney function starts to decline, the "healthy diet" advice changes — sometimes dramatically. Here's how DASH, Mediterranean, and diabetic dietary patterns are actually applied across CKD stages.
It sits alongside the DASH diet as one of the few dietary patterns with a consistent evidence base behind it. Here's what a 2025 meta-analysis found when it measured the Mediterranean diet's actual effect on blood sugar, insulin resistance and waist circumference.
From ginkgo biloba to astaxanthin, several natural compounds have been studied for cognitive and antioxidant support — each at very different doses. Here is an overview of what has actually been researched.
From fat-to-carbohydrate ratios to the surprisingly specific sweet spot for coffee intake, dietary research on cognition is more precise than most people expect.
Not all calories carry the same diabetes risk. Two large meta-analyses put actual numbers on which foods push risk up and which pull it down — and the effective dose matters as much as the food itself.