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by William Wallace, Ph.D.
The Active Site investigates the biology, biochemistry, and clinical evidence behind nutrition, health, and human performance. Hosted by Dr. William Wallace, PhD, with a decade in clinical research and natural product engineering. Episodes are investigations, not always verdicts. We often examine studies in isolation (sometimes alarming, sometimes promising) to show how a single finding builds a certain belief, then re-contextualize within the broader body of evidence. Some episodes trace a question across decades of research. Some examine a single paper in depth. The reframe is where the picture comes together.
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- 1 weeks ago10 min
A New Study Just Linked Creatine To Cancer
Creatine is one of the most-studied supplements in the world, taken by millions of people who have been told for years it is about as safe as anything on the shelf. Then, within weeks of each other, two peer-reviewed studies reached opposite conclusions about what it does to cancer. One found that creatine helped cancer spread faster through the body. The other found that creatine helped the body fight cancer off. Same molecule, serious labs, and results that cannot both be simple. This inves...
- 2 weeks ago15 min
Do Aging Clocks Actually Work?
There are tests now that claim to measure how old you really are. Not the number on your birth certificate, but your biological age, the idea being that two people born on the same day can be aging at different speeds, and that a blood or saliva sample can tell them apart. It starts with a discovery from fifteen years ago, that chemical marks on your DNA shift as you get older. Since then, the clocks built on it have moved fast, from reading your age, to forecasting how long you have left, to...
- 3 weeks ago26 min
What A Tattoo Actually Does Inside Your Body
For decades the reassuring story about tattoos was that the ink stays put: a permanent mark, sealed in the skin, chemically done with your body. It isn't. Pigment migrates out of the skin and lodges in your lymph nodes, carrying the carcinogens it came with, and it stays there for the rest of your life. That's not in dispute. What is in dispute is whether any of it actually causes cancer, and in 2024 and 2025 several teams finally ran the studies. They came back contradicting each other, one ...
- Jun 22, 20268 min
Do You Need to Take Vitamin D with Magnesium & K2?
For most of a decade, vitamin D came with a warning: take it on its own, and the calcium it raises ends up in your arteries instead of your bones. The fix, supposedly, is vitamin K2. The claim is unusually specific for supplement advice, specific enough to put to randomized, placebo-controlled trials with arterial calcium scored on CT before and after. The trials came back. They don't agree with each other. So what does the evidence actually show, and did a 2026 trial change the answer? 0:00 ...
- Jun 2, 202612 min
Apigenin for Sleep and NAD+: Does It Hold Up?
For most of the last century, apigenin was a footnote — a yellow pigment in chamomile and parsley, studied mostly by people cataloguing the antioxidants in plants. In the last few years it has become one of the most-recommended compounds on the internet: the third ingredient in the famous sleep stack, a fixture in longevity protocols built around NAD+, and an addition to formulas aimed at cellular aging itself. But how does the evidence hold up? 0:00 - Introduction 0:45 - Why apigenin is eve...
- May 26, 202612 min
The Truth About Brain Magnesium
For decades, magnesium sat in the supplement aisle as a mineral for muscle cramps, sleep, and general nutrition. Around 2010, that changed. A branded form called magnesium L-threonate launched on the back of a 2010 MIT rodent paper, and a new category was born — magnesium for the brain. Fifteen years later, that category has expanded to include other brand-targeted forms, premium price points, and confident claims about cognition, memory, and synaptic density. In this investigation, we review...
- May 19, 202613 min
Were We Wrong About Fish Oil and the Brain?
For thirty years, the supplement aisle has sold fish oil as one of the simplest decisions you can make for your brain. In 2026, two research teams on opposite sides of the world published papers that complicate that story, and the literature behind them has been building for almost twenty years. IN THIS INVESTIGATION What a 2026 ADNI cohort study of 800+ older adults actually foundWhy faster cognitive decline in fish oil users showed up on every measureWhat the brain imaging revealed when cla...
- Jan 12, 202613 min
The New Dietary Guidelines Controversy — Explained
PREFACE: This is an explanation of the debate the guidelines have stimulated. It references the data used to rationalize the guidelines and the data used to oppose them. There is nothing here that was not cited by the new or old guidelines. For a full review, please see my website. The 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines introduced changes that have caused confusion, disagreement, and strong reactions across nutrition and public health. In this episode of Daily Value, we walk through what actually c...
About The Active Site
The Active Site investigates the biology, biochemistry, and clinical evidence behind nutrition, health, and human performance. Hosted by Dr. William Wallace, PhD, with a decade in clinical research and natural product engineering. Episodes are investigations, not always verdicts. We often examine studies in isolation (sometimes alarming, sometimes promising) to show how a single finding builds a certain belief, then re-contextualize within the broader body of evidence. Some episodes trace a question across decades of research. Some examine a single paper in depth. The reframe is where the picture comes together.
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