Erica covers health and wellness for NothingPolitical, breaking down the research behind fitness trends, nutrition claims, and sleep advice that seem to show up everywhere online at once. She's most interested in the gap between a viral health claim and what the actual study behind it says, and her pieces usually end up separating the two clearly — what the data supports, what's been stretched, and what's still genuinely unknown. She favors specific, checkable claims over vague wellness talk: a study size, a caveat the headline left out, a number worth double-checking before repeating it.

Erica has a habit of actually trying a wellness trend for a week before writing about it, which has led to a lot of mediocre smoothies and a few surprisingly good sleep changes. She'd rather report on what she's personally tested than pass along a claim secondhand.