Every camp has a flag. Keto. Carnivore. Intermittent fasting. Calorie-counting. Anti-calorie-counting. They've been arguing for so long that most people arrive carrying several contradictory certainties at once, none of which they chose deliberately. This volume is not another flag.
Inside this one
- The three functions of food, in plain language, with the mental model behind each
- Why "calories in, calories out" is true and insufficient at the same time
- The macro foundations you need before any deeper macro reading makes sense
- The micronutrient short list — what actually runs low in real diets
- Hydration without the eight-glasses myth
- Label literacy: how to read a packet without being scammed
Who this is for
Coaches, trainers, and serious lifters who want a mechanism-first foundation. Adults who are tired of dietary tribalism. Anyone who wants to evaluate the next nutrition claim they encounter for the rest of their life.The standard it is held to
Every factual claim in this volume names its source, and every claim carries a confidence grade — settled, strong, emerging or contested. Where the evidence is thin, the text says so. How it’s made, in full → · What we’ve got wrong →