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All 69 Vital Codex entries, newest first. Tier I is free and open to everyone; Tier II adds the full mechanisms, dosing detail, and citations.
Anti-Nutrients: Oxalates, Phytates, and How Preparation Changes the Math
Plant defense compounds are neither villains nor irrelevant — the variable that matters is daily load, mineral status, and how the food was prepared.
Apple Cider Vinegar and Raw Honey: The Traditional Oxymel, Examined
An oxymel is honey plus vinegar — one of the oldest preparations in herbal practice. Here is what the ingredients actually do, and where the evidence stops.
Better Fats, Slower Wear: C15:0, Linoleic Acid, and What Your Membranes Are Built From
The useful question is not how much fat you eat but which fats get built into your cells — a stable odd-chain fat from ruminant foods, or the fragile omega-6 that now dominates processed food.
The Butyrate–GLP-1 Connection: How the Gut Regulates Appetite
GLP-1 is not only a drug target. It is a hormone your gut releases in response to butyrate — and butyrate depends almost entirely on fermentable fiber.
Collagen, Skin, and Connective Tissue: Sorting Signal from Marketing
The peptide data are better than skeptics assume and far narrower than the marketing claims. The load-plus-timing protocol is where the real leverage sits.
H. pylori Support Protocol: A Food-First Plan for Symptoms and Stomach Healing
A staged, non-branded protocol built from widely available foods and nutrients — designed to work alongside testing and eradication therapy, not instead of them.
The Hidden Truth About Supplements: What Labels Don't Tell You About Quality, Contamination, and Absorption
A supplement label may tell you what was intended to go into a bottle, but it does not prove identity, potency, purity, absorption, or batch-level safety.
Magnesium: The Quiet Deficiency Behind Fatigue, Cramps, and Poor Sleep
Magnesium participates in more than 600 enzymatic reactions, yet blood testing hides shortfalls almost perfectly — which is why the deficiency is common and rarely diagnosed.
Seed Oils and Heart Disease: What the Evidence Supports
Industrial seed oil consumption rose alongside the twentieth-century coronary disease epidemic. Correlation is not the whole story — but the mechanistic questions are real.
Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox
Why calcium can thin bone and stiffen arteries at the same time — and the two vitamin-K-dependent proteins that decide where the mineral ends up.
The Zinc–Copper Balance: Why the Ratio Matters More Than the Dose
Zinc and copper compete for the same absorption pathway. Supplementing one without regard for the other is one of the more common self-directed nutrition errors.
Fulvic and Humic Acid: The Soil Compounds Modern Diets Lost
Two soil-derived organic acids that once arrived with every meal — one works in the gut, the other enters cells. Modern agriculture removed both from the food supply.
Pomegranate — Deep Codex
Practitioner-level detail on pomegranate polyphenols: ellagitannins, urolithin A, mitophagy, dosing ranges, and interaction cautions.
NAC: Glutathione, Detox, and Lung Support
N-acetyl cysteine is one of the most studied and least glamorous molecules in modern medicine — a direct precursor to glutathione, a WHO essential medicine, and a quiet workhorse for liver, lung, and antioxidant resilience.