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Notes on food, medicine and the space between

Longer pieces on nutrition, common conditions and the things that get lost between a doctor’s appointment and a diet chart. Written by me, not generated.

Anatomical illustration of a human thyroid gland wrapped around the trachea, lit in lime green
Nutrition
Roshan Gupta

Your Thyroid Is Probably Not Why the Scale Is Stuck

Hypothyroidism is a real diagnosis that explains two to five kilograms, much of it fluid. What treating it actually returns, the absorption mistakes almost nobody is told about, and what to check when the numbers are fine and the weight still will not move.

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A worn dumbbell on a dark floor with a glowing lime outline of a larger dumbbell behind it, suggesting strength remembered after a training break
Weight Loss
Roshan Gupta

You Lost Less Than You Think

Eight months off, and the assumption is that you are back at zero. You are not. What detraining actually costs you, why muscle comes back faster than it was built, and the four-week restart that does not end in an injury.

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