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There's a version of the health story online that goes like this. Someone eliminates a food group. Their chronic condition disappears. They post about it. Thousands of people copy them. I've lived a version of that story myself, and I want to be honest about what food can actually treat and what it can't.

I want to talk to you about a word I trusted for too long. Natural. For years I told myself that as long as sugar came from something natural, from fruit, from honey, from agave, it was fine. Then I read a 2025 review that put a number on it, and everything I thought about "healthy" sugar changed.

I spent twenty years selling food. Wine, olive oil, imports and exports across three continents. I sat in rooms where people decided what a bottle would say on the front and what it would say on the back. Then I started buying food as someone who needed to know what he was eating. That's when everything changed.

Saturated fat will clog your arteries. Your cholesterol will skyrocket. You'll destroy your kidneys. Nobody can keep this up. You'll never have a normal life. These are the five things people told me when I started keto. Ten years later, here's what I know about each one.

A 2026 study from Monash University tracked over 2,000 Australian adults and found that ultra-processed foods damage attention and focus, even in people who eat otherwise healthy. For years I lived inside a fog I had stopped noticing. Then I changed how I ate, and I got my mind back.

I want to tell you about the villain in my own story. In the other things I've written here, I told you about the parking lot, the lab report, and the conversation with my doctor that I can't stop thinking about. I told you that real fat was never the enemy. The enemy was always what replaced it. But I never told you exactly what that replacement was...