Meal Building
Weight management on a plant-based diet
Plant-based diets are associated with lower body weight in population studies, and the mechanism is worth understanding because it works in both directions.
Topic
evidence
Every Plant-Based Nutrition Guide article tagged evidence — 9 pieces across 4 sections.
Protein & Amino Acids
Protein timing: what matters and what does not
The narrow anabolic window has not survived scrutiny, and a few timing considerations do have modest support.
Micronutrients
The gut microbiome and what fibre actually does
Plant-based diets change the gut microbial community substantially, which is genuinely interesting and considerably less well understood than the marketing suggests.
Protein & Amino Acids
Legume-based protein: the underrated basics
Legumes are the foundation of plant protein and the food group most associated with good health outcomes, and most people eat far less than they think.
Sport & Performance
Sports supplements that are worth it, and the ones that are not
A small number have real evidence, most have none, and several are of particular relevance to plant-based athletes.
Micronutrients
Vitamin K2 and the claims made about it
K2 is heavily marketed to plant-based eaters and the evidence is thinner and more interesting than either the enthusiasts or the dismissers suggest.
Micronutrients
Reading the research, and why the headlines are usually wrong
Nutrition science produces contradictory headlines because of specific methodological features, and knowing them makes most claims easy to assess.
Protein & Amino Acids
Building muscle on plants
The research comparing plant and animal protein for muscle gain has produced clearer answers than the argument around it suggests.
Protein & Amino Acids
The complete protein question, settled
The idea that plant proteins are incomplete and must be combined has a specific history, a specific error, and a specific retraction.