Inside Health Weekly

Welcome to Nutrition.

If you are what you eat… I’m concerned. Campus is back, and so are your questionable food choices. When was the last time you ate (or even saw) a vegetable? No wonder you're crashing halfway through the lecture.

In the next 3:00 min, InsideHealth is giving you crash-proof snacks, science that clicks, and hacks your body will thank you for.

RECOMENDATIONS

 1. For You

• For movie night: “You Are What You Eat” @ Netflix Documentary

• For your walk to school: Huberman Lab & The Ultimate Human

• For pulling out the facts: Examine.com

• For when you’re broke but still want to eat smart: Pick Up Limes (YT) // Budget Bytes (APP)

• For when you want health made simple →  Inside Health is your go to :)

 2. Science Story (tsitp)

Watching “The Summer I Turned Pretty”? 

Meet your macros as Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah.

1.  CARBS = BELLY

   The main character. Carbs are your body’s primary energy source, broken down into glucose to fuel your brain, muscles, and nervous system. Skip them? The plot collapses.

2. PROTEIN = CONRAD

   The Builder. Protein repairs and grows muscle, skin, enzymes, and neurotransmitters. Working in the background to keep you strong.

3.  FATS = JEREMIAH

   The Misunderstood One. Supports hormone production and vitamin absorption (A, D, E, K). Your brain is 60% fat, literally, Jeremiah is in your head.

   Together: The love triangle your body actually needs. Drop one, and you’re losing both drama and function.

 3. Smart Snacking

Now that school’s back in session, use snacking as a tool to fuel your day and decrease mid-day crashouts.

What’s the significance? Creating smart snacking habits…

→ Fills those nutritional gaps in your diet

→Improves your overall brain function

→ Maintains healthy blood sugar levels, which otherwise causes that pesky brain fog that loves to haunt us around 3:00 PM

 4. Take-Home Hacks

NEWS

SPOTLIGHT: Contributing Author

This Week, we’re excited to spotlight Audrey Kho, Contributing Author at Inside Health, whose latest article dives into What the West Can Learn from the East. As she puts it:

Read her full piece on how to turn this around.

 5. Major Players

The vitamins and minerals that hold it all together. Back at school? Think of them as college majors, each with its own personality.

VITAMINS

• 🧠 Vitamin B-12 → Comp Sci. The quiet genius. Runs everything in the background, making sure your nerves and energy systems stay online.

• ☀️Vitamin D → Psychology. The “mood manager” of your body— keeps bones strong while quietly regulating brain chemistry and emotions.

• 🍊Vitamin C → Theater Major
  Always dramatic, always “on”, loves the spotlight. Boosts your immune system, helps collagen shine, and gives you a radiant glow.

MINERALS 

• 👷Phosphorus → Engineering. Problem-solving and systematic. Critical for energy production (ATP) and the structure of cells, like an engineer designing functional structures.

• 📈Magnesium → Economics. Always calculating the next move. Regulates your nerves and energy, keeping your body balanced like the stock market.

• 💡Selenium → Marketing. The ultimate connector. Selenium acts as an antioxidant and cell communicator, keeping your body running smoothly.

**These are only 6 of the wide range of vitamins and minerals the human body uses!

That’s everything for now! Thanks for hanging out with Inside Health this week. Understanding how you function starts with education, and you’re already doing the work just by being here.

Until Next Time! —The Inside Health Team.