Typed Supps — LearnMechanism-first explainers: how a thing works, when it works, and what is a myth.https://typedsupps.com/feed.xml2026-08-14T00:00:00ZTyped Suppscorrections@typedsupps.comEducational content only — not medical advice.Why caffeine stops workingtag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/caffeinetolerance2026-08-14T00:00:00ZCaffeine doesn’t make energy — it hides the signal that you’re running out. Your brain notices the trick, and renovates accordingly.The “fat-burning zone”tag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/fatburningzone2026-08-14T00:00:00ZLow intensities really do burn a higher share of fat — and the share is the wrong number to care about. The ledger settles over days, not during the workout.Losing fat and gaining muscle at oncetag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/recomp2026-08-14T00:00:00ZRecomposition is real, common in beginners, and increasingly expensive with experience. The fat you carry can fund the muscle you build — under conditions.“Starvation mode”, examinedtag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/starvationmode2026-08-14T00:00:00ZYour metabolism does adapt when you diet — by a few hundred calories, not to zero. It slows the fall; it cannot reverse it. A stall usually has a duller explanation.Why the scale lies day to daytag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/scaleweight2026-08-14T00:00:00ZYour weight swings a kilo or more inside any normal week without any fat changing. Almost all of it is water with better PR.Spot reduction: choosing where fat leavestag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/spotreduction2026-08-14T00:00:00ZYou can train a muscle. You cannot invoice the fat sitting on top of it. Where fat leaves from is hormonal and genetic — and it was never taking requests.The 30-gram protein “limit”tag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/proteinpermeal2026-08-14T00:00:00ZYour gut absorbs essentially all of it, and your muscles keep responding well past 30 g. The limit was a misread lab finding that escaped containment.What fibre actually istag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/fibre2026-08-14T00:00:00ZThe carbohydrate you can’t digest — which turns out to be the point. It slows your glucose, feeds your gut bacteria, and outperforms most of the supplement aisle.Detoxing, and the organs already doing ittag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/detox2026-08-14T00:00:00ZAsk a cleanse to name one toxin it removes, and the conversation ends. Your liver and kidneys, meanwhile, have been running the real programme since before you were born.Cortisol: villain edit vs day jobtag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/cortisol2026-08-14T00:00:00ZThe hormone currently blamed for your face shape is also the one that gets you out of bed. The problem was never cortisol — it’s a rhythm that’s stopped looking like one.Why you get sore (it isn’t lactic acid)tag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/doms2026-08-14T00:00:00ZLactate is cleared within the hour; the soreness arrives the next day and peaks the day after. The accused was never at the scene — and soreness was never the receipt for growth.Ice baths: recovery vs adaptationtag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/coldwater2026-08-14T00:00:00ZCold water genuinely blunts soreness — by muting the same signal your muscles were using to adapt. Whether that’s a good trade depends entirely on what tomorrow is for.Muscle memory is realtag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/musclememory2026-08-14T00:00:00ZMuscle shrinks when you stop. What it learned doesn’t. The nuclei you earned and the patterns you grooved make round two dramatically cheaper than round one.How to read a supplement studytag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/readingstudies2026-08-14T00:00:00Z“Backed by science” is doing a lot of unpaid work. Here’s the ladder of evidence, the tricks played on it, and why this site grades claims instead of products.The placebo effect is not nothingtag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/placebo2026-08-14T00:00:00ZSugar pills measurably improve pain, effort and mood — sometimes even when you know it’s a sugar pill. Which is exactly why “it worked for me” can’t settle what’s in the capsule.How glycogen workstag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/glycogen2026-07-30T00:00:00ZYour body’s carbohydrate battery — and the reason low-carb training feels awful for the first fortnight.How cutting actually workstag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/cutting2026-07-30T00:00:00ZFat loss is an energy deficit. Everything else — macros, timing, fasting — is a tool for making that deficit tolerable.How bulking actually workstag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/bulking2026-07-30T00:00:00ZA surplus supplies the material. Training supplies the instruction. Without the second, a surplus is just a surplus.What macronutrients actually dotag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/macros2026-07-30T00:00:00ZProtein, fat and carbohydrate do genuinely different jobs — which is why the ratio changes how a diet feels, even when the calories match.What actually affects your hormonestag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/hormones2026-07-30T00:00:00ZSleep, body fat, training load and alcohol move your hormones far more than any supplement sold to do it."Adrenal fatigue", and what it usually is insteadtag:typedsupps.com,2026:learn/adrenalfatigue2026-07-30T00:00:00ZThe exhaustion is real. The diagnosis is not — and that matters, because the label sends people to supplements instead of to the thing actually causing it.