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The Nutri-Notes newsletter: a nutrition publication, continued
What was the Nutri-Notes newsletter?
Nutri-Notes began as a bi-monthly nutrition newsletter and reference publication that explained nutrition science and nutritional physiology for general readers and health-minded people. Its issues covered topics like gut health, intestinal permeability, menopause nutrition, and inflammation. That educational mission now continues here as a set of plain-language guides.
Where Nutri-Notes came from
Nutri-Notes, sometimes styled Nutrition Notes, was a bi-monthly nutrition newsletter that set out to explain the nutrition and health connection in plain language. Its purpose was educational: to translate nutrition science and nutritional physiology for general readers and health-minded people, and to reduce the mystery around how food works in the body. Rather than chasing trends, it focused on durable explanations of the underlying science.
That mission is worth continuing, which is why this site rebuilds the publication as a current, freely available set of nutrition guides. The format has changed from a periodic newsletter to an evergreen reference, but the spirit is the same: clear, honest education that helps readers understand nutrition before making changes, always pointing toward qualified professionals for personal decisions.
The kinds of topics each issue covered
As a bi-monthly publication, Nutri-Notes worked through a rotating range of nutrition subjects over its issues, each exploring how a particular area of nutrition relates to health. The topics spanned digestive and gut health, the science of intestinal permeability, nutrition around menopause and hormonal change, the relationship between diet and inflammation, and the fundamentals of nutritional physiology, how the body actually uses the nutrients it takes in.
Each of those subject areas now lives on as a dedicated guide on this site, expanded and kept educational. So while the original issues were periodic snapshots, the current guides gather and update that subject matter into a more complete reference. If you arrived looking for a particular Nutri-Notes issue, the most useful equivalent is the matching topic guide, linked throughout this site and summarized below.
The leaky gut and detoxification material
One subject Nutri-Notes covered drew particular interest over the years: intestinal permeability, popularly called leaky gut, and the broader theme of how the gut handles what passes through it. Because this topic is widely discussed and often oversimplified online, it deserves especially careful, honest treatment, separating the real, studied science of permeability from the marketed claims that surround it.
That careful approach is exactly what the current leaky gut guide aims to provide: what the term means, what is and is not established, why it is not a recognized stand-alone diagnosis, and what supportive, low-risk nutrition actually looks like. If you followed a link to older leaky-gut material here, the updated guide is the best place to land, written to inform rather than to alarm or to sell.
The Nutritional Physiology reference
Alongside its topical issues, Nutri-Notes connected to a broader Nutritional Physiology reference concept: explaining the clinical and everyday applications of how nutrients work in the body. The idea was to give readers a grounding in the fundamentals, so that individual topics made more sense in context rather than as disconnected tips. Understanding the basics is what turns nutrition from a list of rules into something you can reason about.
That foundational material now lives in the nutrition basics guide, which walks through macronutrients, micronutrients, and how the body uses each. Reading it alongside any specific topic, gut health, menopause nutrition, or inflammation, helps the pieces fit together. It remains general education rather than clinical instruction, with personalized application reserved for qualified professionals.
An honest note about what this is now
It is worth being clear and honest: Nutri-Notes is presented here as a continuation of a historical nutrition newsletter, rebuilt as an educational guide. The content on this site is newly written, general nutrition education, not reproductions of old issues and not personalized advice. The aim is to honor the publication's educational purpose while meeting current standards for accuracy and for steering personal decisions toward professionals.
Everything here is information only. It does not diagnose, treat, or cure any condition, and it is not a substitute for care from a qualified physician or registered dietitian. If you value plain-language nutrition education in the spirit of the original newsletter, you can sign up to receive notes by email, and explore the topic guides whenever a particular area is useful to you.
What to know
Key things to keep in mind
- A bi-monthly nutrition newsletter. Nutri-Notes set out to explain the nutrition and health connection in plain language for general readers.
- Rotating nutrition topics. Issues covered gut and digestive health, intestinal permeability, menopause nutrition, inflammation, and physiology.
- The most-discussed subject was leaky gut. Intestinal permeability drew particular interest and now gets careful, honest treatment in the leaky gut guide.
- A Nutritional Physiology foundation. The publication grounded readers in how nutrients work in the body; that lives on in the nutrition basics guide.
- Continued as evergreen guides. The periodic format is now a current reference, with each subject area expanded into a dedicated guide.
- Newly written, honest education. Content here is new general education, not reproductions of old issues and not personalized advice.
- Information, not medical advice. Nothing here diagnoses or treats; personal decisions belong with a qualified physician or registered dietitian.
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