Haley Stewart: The Creator Who Set Up Her TPN Like a Birthday Cake, and 36.8 Million Watched
Haley Stewart has shown her followers how she eats since she was a teenager with a feeding tube; now the meal is a bag of TPN that runs into a line in her chest, and her set-ups have been watched tens of millions of times. She is a patient and a creator, not a clinician; this is her year of lines and tubes in her own words, with the research beside it.
Haley Stewart: The Creator Who Set Up Her TPN Like a Birthday Cake, and 36.8 Million Watched
Haley Stewart has shown her followers how she eats since she was a teenager with a feeding tube; now the…
Paula Sojo: The Crohn’s Patient Who Turned the Ostomy Pouch Into an Accessory
Five years ago she was posting from a hospital ward, eighteen and newly diagnosed with Crohn's after months of being…
Phil Hates Gluten: Seven Years of the Gluten-Free Content Nobody Asked For
Seven years ago, a Boston software salesman a year into an eosinophilic esophagitis diagnosis posted a trailer for gluten-free beer…
Shay Haberstroh: The Ostomy Creator Who Stopped Hiding Her Bag
As a teenager, Shay Haberstroh told no one about her ostomy bag. Ten years after sepsis left her with short…
A Gut Molecule Was Tied to Alzheimer’s. In People It’s a Pattern; the Cause Was Shown in Mice
This weekend’s headline said the gut makes a molecule that raises Alzheimer’s risk. We read the Wisconsin paper, its supplementary…
ZBiotics Really Does Break Down Acetaldehyde. In a Lab Flask. Nobody Has Tested It on a Hangover.
ZBiotics sells a genetically engineered probiotic you drink before your first drink. In the company’s own lab study it clears…
THC Seltzers Have a Federal Cutoff on December 11. Here Is What One Can Was Doing to Your Stomach All Along
A line in last November’s funding law redraws “hemp” around 0.4 milligrams of THC per container; the September stopgap moved…
Your Gut Makes Its Own GLP-1. A 10-Person Tube Study Found a Chickpea’s Structure Changed When the Gut Hormones Arrived
Ten volunteers had tubes threaded from the nose to the end of the small intestine, then ate the same chickpeas…
Is Dirty Soda Bad for Your Stomach? We Read the Cup, and the Cream Is the Small Number
Pepsi’s DRIPS trailer is pouring a Poppi dirty soda outside Austin City Limits this month. We built the classic cup…
Bloom Pop’s New Crisp Apple Soda Is Prebiotic, but Its Label Lists No Fiber. Here’s Why
Bloom’s limited-edition Crisp Apple Pop is sold as a gut-health soda. We read the can: 20 calories, 3 grams of…
Jarritos’ Sana Sana Labels Say 10 Grams of Fiber. Its Website, Edited October 1, Now Says 7
Jarritos says its prebiotic soda just reached Walmart stores in 29 states. Every Nutrition Facts panel we could find says…
Walmart’s New bettergoods Soda Has the Exact Postbiotic Dose From the Trials. Here’s What They Found
We read the label images for Walmart’s new bettergoods Prebiotic & Postbiotic Soda: 40 calories, 5 grams of soluble corn…
Hyrox Now Has a Rule About Bodily Fluids. In Hard Training, Bowel Leaks Are Common, and Mostly Gas
Hyrox added a bodily-fluids clause to its rulebook two days after its Beijing race, and the internet made it a…
Jade Thirlwall Can’t Burp. What “No-Burp Syndrome” Is, and the Honest Answer to Her Question About Botox and Her Voice
The Little Mix singer says she has never been able to burp, and wants the throat Botox but worries about…
Why Beer Gives You Diarrhea and Liquor Doesn’t
Oktoberfest pours 6.5 million litres a year in one-litre mugs, and the morning-after question has a folk answer that is…
“Halloween Diarrhea” Is a Real Medical Paper. Here’s the Candy It Describes.
A 1992 paper named the sorbitol trick; Hershey has already announced twenty Halloween products and the “better-for-you” candy is on…
The Raw-Milk Cheese E. coli Outbreak: 13 Sick, and the 60-Day Aging Rule That Was Never a Kill Step
CDC and the FDA have tied an E. coli O26 outbreak to Graziers raw-milk cheeses: 13 people in nine states,…
The Frozen Blueberry E. coli Outbreak Is Over: 17 Sick, 6 Hospitalized, No Deaths Counted. The Recalled Bags Are Dated Into 2028
CDC and the FDA closed the frozen blueberry E. coli outbreak on September 21 at 17 cases, six hospitalizations and…
The Lettuce Cyclospora Outbreak Is Over: 12,883 Cases, 570 Hospitalized, 21 States. Here Is What the Final Count Says, and What It Leaves Open
Eight weeks after the count stood at 400 cases in four states, the CDC has posted its final update on…
Two New Salmonella Egg Outbreaks in One Week. Here’s What the Recall Codes and the Small-Flock Rule Actually Say
Eight days after CDC closed the 134-case national egg outbreak, California and Vermont each announced a new one on the…
What 25 Hours Without Food or Water Does to Your Gut, and Why the Break-Fast Bagel Hits So Hard
Yom Kippur begins at sundown on September 20, and the questions arrive on schedule: why the headache, why the bathroom…
How to Not Poop During a Marathon, According to the Research
Djokovic threw up his way out of the US Open and said it has been every match this year; Berlin,…
Let Loose’s SH*T Shoes: How a Disco Pump Became Gut Health’s Smartest Object
The $69 seven-inch platforms you are forbidden to walk in sold out a size in their first week, and the…
Chicory Coffee and Your Gut: The 12-Gram Problem
The caffeine-free “gut coffee” rose 2,600% on TikTok in a single month, and unusually for a wellness trend, there is…
Why the Dining Hall Does That to Your Stomach, Per Actual Science
Every August the dorm-bathroom confessionals return, and underneath the bit is a question nobody credible has answered. One university actually…
Gut Bacteria That Cannot Survive Open Air Are Passed Between Individuals
A bacterium that dies on contact with air cannot have drifted across a gap. Finding the same one in two…
What Moving to a City Does to the Gut Microbiome, Across Ten Communities
The familiar version says city living thins out the gut microbiome, everywhere, the same way. A survey of 575 people…
CAG-170: The Gut Bacteria That Keep Turning Up in Healthy People
Nobody has ever grown it in a laboratory. It is known only as the 170th cluster of genes that rise…
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