Science Writing

Wellness Portals • 18th July 2024

Unraveling the Language of Nutrition

"One thing I’ve learned for sure is that ideas, stories, and language change. What is working now could be corrupted later and as a human, perhaps that is one of our most creative and lovely powers. "

Wellness Portals • 13th April 2024

Chasing Diagnosis

"You don’t have an autoimmune disease, or depression, or metabolic dysregulation, in the same way someone has the flu. But rather these chronic conditions reflect patterns of your body in survival; a real time interaction between environmental factors, genetic material, and your body's own defense"

Medium • 29th August 2020

When Getting Old Doesn’t Make You Wise

"As a little kid, I believed that grown-ups must be at home in themselves. And in fact, it wasn’t until I was probably in about middle school that I started to increasingly realize this was one of the great myths of childhood. "

Medium • 11th August 2020

Why Losing Weight Won’t Guarantee Health

"It’s long past time to abandon this body shaming, weight-based, ideology, which has no place in nutritional research. It’s time for a new paradigm — one that actually links and matches nutritional sufficiency with health."

Medium • 11th August 2020

Thin Truths

"The story of weight is more complicated than a simple formula —neither the thinness nor the fatness of your body can fully summarize your health. "

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Graduate Academic Writing • 10th June 2018

Vagus Nerve Impacts on Appetite and Weight Management

This literature review was completed as part of graduate coursework and examines the role of the vagus nerve in appetite regulation and weight management.