The Tea

We are surrounded by more health information, more products, more experts, and more “solutions” than any generation before us - and we are not well.  Objectively, it’s insane. The people selling health are teaching it.

Twenty years of fixes adds up to a very full bathroom cabinet.

Stop asking what burns fat. Ask whether it's one of the things. The internet has trained us to ask the wrong question. What burns fat? What boosts metabolism? What melts belly fat? What's the strongest? What's fastest? What's the newest thing? It's a trap. Because there is always another answer. Another ingredient. Another powder. Another protocol. Another 30-day challenge. Another molecule with a sexy mechanism and a graph pointing upwards. And some of them genuinely do something. That's the problem. The bullshit isn't always that the thing does nothing. Sometimes it does exactly what the study says it does. The...

You've seen the number. "Green tea increases fat burning by 17%." It's on supplement labels, in listicles, and behind a lot of fat-loss promises. The number is real. It comes from a real study. And as a fuel-burning effect, it's genuinely significant - more so than most things you can add to your day. What it doesn't mean is 17% off the scale. 17% is a real, significant shift in how much fat you burn during exercise - from green tea's own compounds, with no real trade-off. What it isn't is 17% more weight lost. Those are two different numbers,...