Priya Nair covers diet and nutrition for Top Shape Now, focusing on the everyday questions readers actually have, what to eat before a workout, how to read a nutrition label, whether a popular diet trend has any real evidence behind it, rather than chasing the latest superfood headline. She's particularly interested in the gap between nutrition science as it's actually studied and how dramatically it gets flattened or exaggerated by the time it reaches a headline.

Her approach to a story usually starts with the same question: what would actually change if someone believed this? If the answer is ‘not much’ or ‘it depends heavily on context nobody mentioned,’ that's usually the more interesting article to write. She's spent enough time untangling conflicting dietary guidelines over the years to know that most nutrition advice needs a lot more nuance than a listicle can offer.

Priya cooks most of her own meals, partly out of habit and partly because it's the easiest way to actually test whether a recipe or ingredient swap she's writing about is worth recommending. She keeps a running, only half-joking rule that if a recipe takes longer to read than to cook, something has gone wrong. Outside of nutrition writing, she's the reliable one in her friend group for restaurant recommendations.