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A running collection of compact physiological facts. Each one is short enough to stand alone and specific enough to be verified. Together they form the substrate from which the longer arguments on this resource are built.

The list grows as new pieces are written. Every article on this resource contributes at least one entry.

• More than seventy learned societies signed a 2022 declaration recognizing nutritional care as a human right, and almost no one outside hospital nutrition has heard of it

  On 5 September 2022, more than seventy national learned societies of clinical nutrition, from every continent, signed the Vienna Declaration on the Human Right to Nutritional Care. It formally recognizes access to nutritional care as a human right, intrinsically linked to the right to food and to health. Four years later, the text has barely left the hospital nutrition community.

• Creatine supplementation frees roughly half of your body's methyl budget

  Making creatine in your own body consumes 40 to 50 percent of the methyl groups your metabolism produces each day. Taking 3 to 5 grams of creatine as a supplement lets that budget go elsewhere: to DNA methylation, to phosphatidylcholine synthesis, to neurotransmitter production.