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the transition.

Two years of field notes from the Food is Health movement — the science, the money, the policy, and the people building System C. Start anywhere. Then go deeper, weekly, on Substack.

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The Movement Essay

The Fulcrum Briefing - November 1

The buyers moved first this week. The scoreboard that tells them whether food worked still doesn't exist, and whoever builds it sets the price.

Nov 1, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Podcast

Unprocessed & Unfiltered

Your Food App Gave It a 9. Another Gave It a 3.

Oct 31, 2026 · 2 minRead
Investing Essay

Weekend Debrief from the Rooms

Tufts convened the Food Is Medicine National Summit around a field that now has proof. The next challenge is scaling and funding a sustainable system.

Oct 31, 2026 · 2 minRead
Food as Medicine Essay

States Are Funding Food as Medicine With Rural Health Money, Mostly Uncounted

Fifty states, $10 billion a year, and four different bets on food as health. What the first federal spending report shows, and what it leaves out.

Oct 28, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Essay

Food Is Health Fulcrum October 8th - 24th

When standards, enforcement, and demand point the same way, upstream health stops looking like a preference and starts looking like infrastructure.

Oct 25, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Podcast

Unprocessed & Unfiltered

My Fitness Age Is 20. My Bloodwork Had Other Ideas.

Oct 25, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Podcast

Unprocessed & Unfiltered

Nutrient Density Abounds You Just Have to Know Where to Look

Oct 25, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Essay

14 Days to Prove Food Is Medicine - and a Money Back Guarantee

Join Rip Esselstyn’s Plant Strong LDL Challenge and lower your cholesterol 10 points in two weeks

Oct 23, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Essay

Snacks On A Plane

I mean there is a movie about Snakes On A Plane so why not?

Oct 20, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Essay

My Excitement Might Cause Spontaenous Combustion

48 hours to Scale Real Food

Oct 14, 2026 · 2 minRead
Regenerative Ag Essay

Chefs Are Already Building the Food Is Health Economy.

How One Chef Turned a Cover Crop Into a Cash Crop (and Ended Up on my local Bakery Shelf

Oct 8, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Essay

You Might Be the Missing Piece to Paint The Fence

What next week still needs, and what December is for

Oct 7, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Essay

The Fulcrum: Three Weeks In One

Proof that food-as-health is becoming infrastructure.

Oct 4, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Podcast

Food Is Health Revolution Weekly Livestream

The label isn't the outcome—and the grocery aisle is still making you guess.

Oct 3, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Podcast

Unprocessed & Unfiltered

The Egg Isn’t the Problem—The Context Is

Oct 3, 2026 · 2 minRead
Regenerative Ag Essay

Introducing Demeter: An Open Invitation to Build

A Food is Health tool to model the connections between food, agriculture, health, and economics.

Oct 3, 2026 · 2 minRead
Investing Essay

FROM THE FIELD: CLIMATE WEEK DAY TWO

The transition will require new markets, capital and infrastructure. It may also require a different kind of education.

Sep 24, 2026 · 2 minRead
The Movement Essay

From the Field: Climate Week Day 1

What Ellen heard in the rooms - and what happened between them

Sep 22, 2026 · 2 minRead
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