Sometime in 2020, I began to realise that, despite having trained as a doctor and worked in health for 20 years, I didn’t know anything.
It started with the health and wellness podcasts, whose hosts are mostly men, mostly American, all highly qualified and all very confident about their claims and their conclusions.
In everyday conversation, complicated ideas began to crop up. Friends and colleagues would show me their microbiome analysis, or the results of genetic tests, or data from the continuous blood-glucose monitor (CGM) they were wearing.
They’d tell me about their supplement stack, including molecules like NMN, glutathione, CoQ-10 and alpha-GPC
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