Gabby reports on exercise science, nutrition, and all things related to human performance. She also loves a good deep dive into fitness subcultures, health companies, or wellness hacks. 

Gabby has a background in investigative journalism (previously contributing research for an investigation on correctional healthcare for the New Yorker) and a personal interest in lifting heavy things. 

In her free time, she plays roller derby for Gotham in New York City.

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Expertise/Interests

• Strength sports, including Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, and CrossFit. 
• Performance science: training techniques for goals ranging from muscle-building (hypertrophy), general physical preparedness, endurance, and injury prevention, especially for fitness beginners. 
• Healthy eating: how to navigate conflicting and contradictory advice across trends like vegan, keto, paleo, and other diets to eat for a long, active life. 
• Digital wellness: investigating how social media and online companies are changing the ways in which consumers access health information and services, and what the risks and benefits might be.
• Medical weight loss: how emerging science around treatments like GLP-1 medication are shaping how the healthcare industry addresses complications linked to higher body weight. 
• Weight stigma: untangling how perceptions around body weight and health are linked to social and culture trends and can influence access to medical care as well as physical and mental wellbeing.  

Top Stories:

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