OPTIMIZED AGAINST YOU
On the systems inside the food supply, the financial industry, and daily life that were never designed with your biology or your interests in mind.
The products are not malicious. They are optimized. Optimized for shelf stability, manufacturing cost, regulatory compliance, and liability management. Your biology is not part of that optimization. It never was.
The system is not conspiring against you. It simply was never designed with you in mind. There is no villain. There is only a set of incentives that does not include your best interests, and a label that reflects those incentives perfectly.
These essays are about the gap between what things claim to be and what they actually do. The gap is where a lot of chronic unexplained suffering lives. It doesn't have to.