Miranda
Miranda is the Nutrishatives health and nutrition lead writer. A classically trained physiologist and biochemist turned nutritional scientist, lifestyle medicine advocate, and author, she is on a mission to share scientifically-accurate health and nutrition information with everyone. When she’s not keyboard-deep in the latest nutritional research, you can usually find her nose-deep in a book, skeins-deep in a knitting project, or episodes-deep into something sci-fi-fantasy-historical-fiction-y.
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