Aug 25, 2026
Effective athlete support requires more than delivering technically correct nutrition advice. It depends on understanding the athlete’s wider environment, anticipating the pressures that disrupt good intentions, and building flexible routines that remain useful across training, competition, travel and everyday life.
Aug 18, 2026
This episode answers one of the questions raised in the most recent Q&A episode on Sigma Nutrition Premium.
The full episode includes the following questions:
- Fiber: Independent effect or proxy for healthy foods?
- Exposure frequency for matched dose of red meat
- MTHFR gene mutations and 5-MTHF
- Typical fish oil...
Aug 11, 2026
Medical screening is often framed as an uncomplicated good: if disease is found earlier, treatment can begin earlier and outcomes should improve.
This episode examines why that reasoning is incomplete. Screening can produce benefit, but it can also generate false positives, incidental findings, overdiagnosis,...
#615: Why Processing Doesn’t Determine the Healthfulness of Plant-Based Diets – Alysha Thompson, PhD
Aug 4, 2026
What does the evidence actually show when we look at plant-based dietary patterns through the lens of food processing? And does classifying foods as “ultra-processed” meaningfully change how we interpret the relationship between plant-based diets and long-term health outcomes?
A recent large prospective cohort...