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The Body-Type Newsletter Archive: 13 Years of Free Guidance, Mapped

A reader’s map to the BodyType.com newsletter archive: what’s in a typical issue, how to filter 150+ back issues by year, body type, or essential oil, a type-by-type index of which issues feature each of the 25 body types, and our picks for the food and nutrition articles worth starting with.

An Intestinal body type reset plate in a meal-prep container — white basmati rice, pinto beans, cooked broccoli, carrots, sweet potato, peas, and chicken

The Intestinal Body Type Reset Week: A 30-Day Belly Reset That Doesn't Fight Your Gut

How to run a 30-day reset for the Intestinal body type without wrecking your digestion: the fat-loss mechanics (small food list, repeat meals, high volume, measured fat), a strict week for good-digestion stretches and a sensitive week built only from stress-stable anchor foods, plus sample days, portions, and when to widen back out.

Overhead flat-lay of grains and legumes for Intestinal body type meal prep — brown and white rice, wild rice, buckwheat, chickpeas, red lentils, kidney beans, oats, and raisins in white bowls and jars

A Week of Intestinal Body Type Meals: The Batch-Prep Plan

A repeatable Sunday batch-prep plan for the Intestinal body type: which proteins, grains, legumes, vegetables, and ferments to cook for the week, scored against Carolyn Mein’s food lists so you build on the anchor foods and know exactly what to ease back on when your gut is off.

Pickleball Training — a top-down court showing the kitchen and a drive-drop-to-the-net path, with a paddle and ball, in Barefoot Betters colors

Pickleball Training: Read the Ball, Plant Your Feet (a 6-Week Plan)

Rec players stall in the transition zone because they pick the wrong first ball, then panic on the second. This is the honest fix: read the return into one of six boxes, drive or drop or lob accordingly, and plant your feet before you swing. Includes a 6-week program, five footwork drills that are the conditioning, and a printable full-plan card you can take to the court.

An Honest 30-Day Plan to Lose Visceral Fat (Skip the '30 Pounds' Hype)

The habits in Ben Azadi’s visceral-fat video are solid—three protein meals, an earlier last meal, lift, walk after meals. The wrapper (30 lb in 30 days, a mandatory weekly 24-hour fast, giant GH percentages, a supplement link) is metabolic-YouTube inflation. Here’s the honest split and a 30-day plan you can actually keep.

Do Vibration Plates Actually Work? An Honest Look at Whole-Body Vibration

A vibration plate makes your muscles fire reflexively many times a second—that’s the mechanism, not magic calorie burn. Here’s the honest split: what the research supports (strength and balance in older adults, circulation and recovery, some bone, back-pain and blood-pressure signals) versus what the marketing overpromises (fat loss, detox, replacing real exercise). Plus how to use one and who should skip it.

Stronger Legs After 40: What Actually Helps (and What's Just Hype)

Weak legs after 40 aren’t inevitable. Here’s the honest split: eat enough protein, strength-train the legs a few times a week, walk, and treat a vibration plate as optional spice—not the workout. Includes a 5-minute intermediate leg routine and the primary research behind every claim.

The 3-Seed Blood-Sugar Mix (Flax, Fenugreek & Black Cumin): What It Can and Can't Do

Dr. Anshul Gupta’s 3-seed mix—flax, fenugreek, black cumin—written down honestly. It’s a fiber-and-omega-3 add-on that can blunt a glucose spike and nudge A1c a little over weeks, backed by a real 12-week combo trial. It is not a reversal of insulin resistance, and it doesn’t replace losing liver fat and lifting your legs. Doses, cautions, and the hypoglycemia warning included.

The Barefoot Evening Routine: A Wind-Down Checklist

One routine that strings the individual recipes into a single wind-down—fermented cabbage, movement, topicals, face mask, a two-minute Daily Joy Blend bookend, the recovery drink and its supplements, a glass of water, and the humble non-negotiable of brushing your teeth—tuned for the Intestinal body type, with a printable card you can pin to the fridge.

The Emotional-Eating Mistake That Sinks the Plan (and the CLEAR Fix)

You can do the seeds, the fasting, the walks, and still lose it at the pantry after the kids are in bed. The missing piece isn’t another food—it’s inspecting the sentence between the cue and the snack. Dr. Morgan Nolte’s CLEAR worksheet (a CBT tool with a better acronym) as a 10-minute habit, not a mindset course.