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New Discoveries From the Largest-Ever Study of Unhealthy Times to Eat

New research findings demonstrate how meal times and food quality affect health, with bad news for sugary midnight snacks

7 min readMay 5, 2024

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A New Discovery Reveals How Eating More Protein After Exercise Fuels Muscle Growth

We thought there’s a low ceiling on how much eating protein boosts muscle growth — but it looks like we were wrong

7 min readFeb 9, 2024

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A New Discovery Reveals How Eating More Protein After Exercise Fuels Muscle Growth

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Can We Lose Fat and Gain Muscle At the Same Time?

An overview of how intermittent fasting affects muscle growth, strength, aerobic capacity, and sporting performance

8 min readDec 17, 2023

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Can We Lose Fat and Gain Muscle At the Same Time?

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Which Type of Intermittent Fasting is Best for Weight Loss and Health?

Comparing total and substantial daily calorie restriction with religious fasts and time-restricted eating

9 min readDec 8, 2023

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Which Type of Intermittent Fasting is Best for Weight Loss and Health?

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New Discoveries That Redefine Our View of Diet, Weight Gain, Exercise, and Health

The constrained energy expenditure model and why we can’t exercise our way out of a bad diet

9 min readNov 22, 2023

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New Discoveries That Redefine Our View of Diet, Weight Gain, Exercise, and Health

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Pregnancy Requires as Much Energy as Extreme Endurance Sports

How pregnancy affects metabolism, and advice from metabolic science to support maternal health during gestation

8 min readFeb 20, 2024

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Pregnancy Requires as Much Energy as Extreme Endurance Sports

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8 Nobel Prize-Winning Principles That Can Improve Our Lives and Societies

Valuable essons from the late political scientist Elinor Ostrom and her paradigm-shifting discoveries

7 min readFeb 5, 2024

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8 Nobel Prize-Winning Principles That Can Improve Our Lives and Societies

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What We Learned When My Fiancée Was Hospitalised for Life-Threatening Anaemia

What is anaemia, what causes it, and how can we prevent it?

7 min readJan 11, 2024

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What We Learned When My Fiancée Was Hospitalised for Life-Threatening Anaemia

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A Beginner’s Guide to Cancer and Current Thinking on How to Beat It

An overview of research on genetic and metabolic causes of cancer and strategies to prevent and treat ‘The Big C’

12 min readDec 25, 2023

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A Beginner’s Guide to Cancer and Current Thinking on How to Beat It

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Recent Discoveries and Potential Breakthroughs in Microbiome Health

Lessons from Hadza hunter-gatherers about health, microbiome diversity, and holobionts

7 min readNov 4, 2023

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Recent Discoveries and Potential Breakthroughs in Microbiome Health

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Matt Williams-Spooner, Ph.D.

Matt Williams-Spooner, Ph.D.

I’m an evolutionary neurobiologist interested in complex systems. My articles will explore discoveries in these areas and what they mean for us. Hope you enjoy!

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