The story
We were preparing for IVF. Following the protocol, reading every label. Then I looked more closely at one of the prescribed fertility supplements and found aspartame in it.
That sent me looking for why it mattered, and what I found changed how I understood everything else we were doing. Gut research nobody had put in the protocol. What fermented foods actually do that a supplement can’t replicate. I still keep a ginger bug in our kitchen cabinet, feeding it most days until I decide what to make with it.
I didn’t set out to become someone who reads studies for fun (even though it actually is fun for me!). I just kept finding that the research existed, it was just never handed to the people who needed it.
That’s what this is. Not a program, not a fix. Somewhere for the research to actually land.