‘Weird food’? Testicle- and brain-eating, supplement-gulping MAHA health food enthusiasts defend their ‘natural’ diets New York Times | October 22, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/22/weird-food-testicle-and-brain-eating-supplement-gulping-maha-health-food-enthusiasts-defend-their-natural-diets/ Raw buffalo brains, bull testicles and roadkill are on the menu for a growing community of diet contrarians who insist the standard American diet is the truly strange one, as Sophie Haigney writes for The New York Times Magazine. Haigney spent months with followers of what a friend dubbed “dark nutrition.” It’s less a single diet than a worldview that doctors, public health officials and food companies can’t be trusted.