Most nutrition advice collapses at the exact moment you need it: standing in your kitchen, trying to decide what to eat, while seven contradictory “facts” fight in your head.
This is the final episode in the Food Confusion to Food Clarity series. In Part 1 we mapped why modern nutrition creates contradiction and dependence. In Part 2 we built the constraint-based filters: the protein ceiling, the Randle cycle, and the historical record. In this episode, we use those filters as intended. We apply them to the common diets and see what passes.
We go diet by diet through keto, paleo, Mediterranean, vegan and vegetarian, carnivore, and the Standard American Diet. You will hear what each pattern gets right, where it breaks the constraints, and what that implies if you want to stop guessing and start choosing based on mechanisms you can verify.
We close with a practical way to locate yourself on the spectrum using genetics, metabolic context, and real-world feedback. The goal is not a perfect diet.
The goal is clarity in an hyper-influential, often contradictory nutritional world.
Derived from Mark’s essay: From Population Requirements to Personal Nutrition Calibration | Part III of the Nutrition from First Principles Series
More audio and essays at Mark’s Substack: HealthUnderControl.com
Mark’s practice (the HUC philosophy in action): Unblocked.Health
