One of my dearest dreams is to again have a garden. There were a few years in my early thirties when I did have some space for a garden, but we also lived in the desert where summer temperatures would easily reach 115˚ F.

I was thirty-two years old and just beginning to really struggle with my health when I first heard that coconut oil was healthy. I didn’t know anything about thyroid, the endocrine system, or cellular respiration, and had never yet heard of Ray Peat, but the advice about coconut oil was convincing enough that I decided to try it.

The internet is full of trolls, drama queens, conspiracy theorists, and an army of cancel-ready soldiers. But in reality there are far more normal, kind, and wonderful people both in the world and online, and like I discuss in much of my work it is only that the former are just louder and more obnoxious that it even seems like there are as many as it seems.

Beavers are fucking cute, and this is probably a completely unexpected topic for my website. But major ecological and environmental disasters occurring and threatening to occur are putting our very food supply chains at risk, and the consequences of the choices made by our progenitors can be traced to the roots of these problems we face.

Bread is a great source of most B vitamins, but one it does not have, which is probably also the most important, is B12. The reason bread does not have B12 is that B12 can only be made by bacteria, so the yeast used to make bread means that bread does not contain any unless it is fortified with it.

During a recent livestream someone asked me what some of the most common problems are that I encounter with those trying to get well. One of my main answers was trying to get people to stop using numbers and measuring apps/devices to track calories, macros, and other measurable data when it comes to food.

I cannot believe the absolute insanity that has orbited the coronavirus outbreak. There was a ridiculous map at the start of the outbreak which showed the United States as the most prepared nation for such a disaster, even though President Trump had only a year earlier destroyed the government’s official pandemic response team…

Root vegetables are some of the most healthy foods we can eat as human beings, though they are not always themselves packed with nutrition or thought to be nutritious. The benefit of eating root vegetables such as sweet potatoes, yams, or yuca (also called cassava) is that they have unique carbohydrates

Sex is one of the most prominent themes of human life. Even before we even have sex hormones our lives are dominated by sex, unknowingly born into a world in which the adults are preoccupied and obsessed with sex and and sexual relationships, often abused or traumatized in their own childhoods by yet other adults who themselves were also abused, taught to deplore our bodies, distrust other people, and be ashamed and shame others for sex and sex behavior.

If we had any politicians with brains, we would not be having these kinds of debates, nor such impassioned struggle for basic rights and privileges of American citizens. Politics takes dealmaking, but many deals are so bad they actively imperil future generations, and politicians who make them should be voted out of office immediately rather than being lauded for bipartisanship or whatever bullshit political rhetoric is currently in vogue.

I’ve decided to start streaming on YouTube to engage more people on my work. We’ll be talking about anything you want! Food, bacteria, health. Go to my channel and subscribe so you can be notified of streams.

https://www.youtube.com/natehatch

Probably the very definition of comfort food, I think a good pot pie is my favorite meal ever. It does take a lot of work, but with some smart planning it can be successful without requiring much more effort than you might already be putting into your meals.

This is a short, different post. But this weekend I am reading Frederica, by by Georgette Heyer with my sister. It’s a very long book (my favorite genres are gothic, regency stuff like Bronte, Stoker, and Austen) and I was thinking about how much easier reading has become as I’ve gotten older and written about 500,000 words in the last ten years of my life.

After a debilitating struggle with health and approaching death, unaided by doctors and abandoned by most people in my life I was forced to find my own solutions to health in order to not die. I was lucky to find such answers. But I also discovered answers to health problems which have plagued man for generations and I began excitedly sharing them with everyone on whose ear I could impose.

In the Summer of 1998 when I was seventeen I finally found some friends with whom I could be rebellious. It wasn’t my intent to be rebellious, but for most of my teenage years I had associated with a crowd of well-behaved kids from religiously conservative families, because that was expected of me, and they were some of the worst people I have ever met—

Chocolate cookies are not a common go-to for dessert, but these are some of the MOST delicious cookies and one of my absolute favorites. Many chocolate cookie recipes do actually use too much chocolate (yes, there is such a thing as too much, I think).

Wow, it has been almost six years since I first began this journey back to health and wellness. If you are familiar with my story (my book) you may know about how I contracted cancer and was dealing with alcoholism and the destruction of pretty much everything in my life as it all came crashing down at once. Or maybe more accurately the final culmination of health and wellness problems I’d been having for some time. But things got better once I

At the beginning of this year I saw the writing on the wall, and when most people were posting about their New Years resolutions I instead railed against the last decade of my life and the hardships I had to endure.

The degree to which we filter our life experience is by magnitudes far greater than we can really comprehend. As a human being we are designed to survive in a world where mortality is real, and can even come from ways as simple as stepping out into the street without looking, or succumbing to an invisible pathogen we never saw coming.

Man, people are really mean about sugar these days. I had someone chew me out on Instagram recently after I took issue with them body shaming others, who claimed I was responsible for promoting diabetes, as if they actually cared about the people with diabetes whom they were just fat shaming.