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Count Your Mesos

The hippest word in wellness serves as proof that good stuff resides in the middle. Meet the mesonutrients (mesos being the Greek word for ‘inside’ or ‘middle’). “They’re the active compounds found within ‘superfoods’,” says clinical specialist dietitian Holly Dempsey. We suspect that you already tapped into this trend long before mesonutrients got their buzzy new moniker (curcumin, for instance, found in turmeric, is the reason the latte had a wellbeing boost). But others are more niche. So, why are they being talked about now as if

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