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....

Activating the WHA Resolution on Liver Disease: From Recognition to Transformation The World Health Assembly's adoption of the resolution "Steatotic liver disease: a missing piece in the global noncommunicable disease response" marks a watershed moment in global...

Food Noise or Food Information? Reframing How We Think About Obesity A recent opinion piece by Giuseppe Marzio in de Volkskrant argues that if we want to tackle obesity, we need to stop focusing exclusively on individuals and start addressing what the author calls...

There is a growing health crisis unfolding quietly inside millions of people — often without symptoms, pain, or warning signs. It is called MASLD: metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, formerly known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). And...

The WHA Liver Disease Resolution: A Landmark Moment — and a Call to Go Further The adoption of the World Health Assembly resolution on steatotic liver disease marks a significant turning point in global health policy. For the first time, liver disease is being...

The Pyramid of Health: Why Healthspan Begins at the Cellular Level The global health conversation is shifting. For decades, the dominant goal was to extend lifespan: helping people live longer. More recently, the focus has moved toward healthspan: helping people live...

The Metabolic Matrix: The New Architecture of NCDs Where the food system becomes health infrastructure As the World Health Assembly convenes, the global conversation on noncommunicable diseases needs a new frame. For decades, NCDs have been treated primarily as a...

The Big Shift: Health Is Moving From Preference to Purchasing Behavior Health-conscious eating is no longer a niche consumer preference. It is becoming a material force in the food and beverage market. A BCG article points to a slowdown in overall food and beverage...

Fructose Is Not Just “Sugar”: Why Metabolic Matrix Looks at It Differently A new review published in Nature Metabolism and reported by ScienceDaily adds weight to something Metabolic Matrix has long recognized: fructose deserves its own metabolic criteria. For years,...