Articles
In-depth articles from a registered dietitian
Longer reads on how nutrition care actually works, from reading your lab results to working through gut symptoms and building an eating plan for blood sugar. Each is clinically reviewed and cites its sources.
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Lab results
Why your dietitian should read your lab results
Which blood tests relate to nutrition, how a dietitian reads them, and what stays with your doctor.
Gut health
Bloating, IBS and SIBO: how a dietitian works through gut symptoms
The step-by-step process a dietitian uses for bloating, IBS and SIBO, from red flags to reintroduction.
Blood sugar
Prediabetes and type 2 diabetes: an eating plan that fits real life
The plate, carbohydrate quality, familiar foods, eating out, movement and sleep, built around your doctor’s plan.
How care works
What working with a precision dietitian is really like
From first visit to follow-up: how precision nutrition care works, as Dr. Ambily Kushal’s patients describe it.
Gut health
Histamine intolerance: what it is and how a dietitian works through it
What histamine intolerance is, why no single test confirms it, and the stepwise way a dietitian works through it.
GLP-1 nutrition
How to keep muscle on GLP-1 medication, and after you stop
How to protect muscle on a GLP-1 medicine and after stopping: protein, strength training and the right measurements.
Diabetes
Lowering A1c on a vegetarian diet with type 2 diabetes
How a vegetarian with type 2 diabetes can lower A1c: protein first, fewer eating occasions, glucose data and strength.
Gut health
Bloating even though you eat healthy? Look at your medicines
Why more restriction rarely fixes bloating on a clean diet, and why your medicine list is the next place to look.
Weight management
How to lose weight when your schedule won’t cooperate
How to lose weight when long workdays leave no room: floors not ceilings, batch prep, protein and steady follow-up.
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