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...

One in Three People Cannot Afford a Healthy Diet. That Is a Food-System Failure. The latest United Nations figures show modest progress against hunger—but also expose a deeper global inequity: billions of people remain unable to afford food that supports health. The...

Two Studies. Twenty-Two Years Apart. One Powerful Story About Fructose. Why modern neuroscience is finally explaining what metabolic researchers first observed more than two decades ago. For years, discussions about sugar have often been reduced to a simple equation:...

For decades, the food industry has competed on a familiar set of dimensions: taste, convenience, affordability, branding, distribution and innovation. More recently, sustainability and transparency have joined that list. These remain essential, but a more fundamental...

Vitamins: More Than Nutrients—A Partnership Between You and Your Microbiome Most of us think of vitamins as nutrients that come from food or supplements. We learn that vitamin C comes from citrus fruits, vitamin D from sunlight, and vitamin B12 from animal products....