Metabolism is the fundamental process of life. At KDD, we embrace metabolism as the north star of nutrition, embodied in the Metabolic Matrix (https://metabolicmatrix.info) – but helping the world gain better metabolic health is a cross-sector effort that requires...

The Health of Nations: Why Prevention May Be One of the World’s Best Investments An excellent report, The health of nations: Stronger health, stronger economies, by McKinsey offers a remarkable perspective on the health of natioins. For decades, we have tended to talk...

We keep treating chronic disease as if it were primarily a problem of individual behavior: eat less, exercise more, lose weight. But what if we’ve been asking the wrong question? In an episode of the Nutritious Minds Podcast, Dr. Rachel Gow sits down with Dr. Robert...

The Externality Is the Opportunity How the Metabolic Matrix can help turn the hidden costs of food into measurable health, innovation and economic value For decades, the global food system has been optimized around what companies could most readily measure and...

From Diagnosis to Treatment: Why the Food Industry Must Redesign for Metabolic Health The food and beverage industry does not lack a diagnosis. Its leaders know that the prevailing model produces consequences far beyond the supermarket shelf. They know that many...

Beyond the Injection: GLP‑1 Medicines, Metabolic Health and the Future of Food GLP‑1 therapies can transform treatment. The Gut–Liver–Brain framework can help transform prevention—and ensure that food remains part of the solution. GLP‑1 medicines have changed the...

Obesity Is Not the Whole Problem: Reframing the Crisis Around Metabolic Health For decades, the dominant explanation for obesity has been deceptively simple: people gain weight because they consume more calories than they expend. The prescribed solution follows...

Metabolic Health Begins in the Mouth Why dentistry, medicine, public health and food innovation must begin connecting the dots For decades, oral health and metabolic health have largely been treated as separate domains. Dentists cared for teeth and gums; physicians...

Tomorrow’s Appetites: What the Bramble 40 Tells Us About the Future of Food The food industry is entering a period of structural change. For decades, competitive advantage was largely built through scale, distribution, brand recognition, convenience, and price. These...

Big Food Is Not Running Out of Moves. It Is Running Out of Old Moves. The food industry’s crisis cannot be solved by adding protein to yesterday’s products. It requires a fundamentally different approach to food design. A recent Wall Street Journal analysis delivers a...