A lot has happened in the world in the last year and a half, but it hasn’t stopped research on diet-associated dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). In addition to the two original peer-reviewed research publications on this disease from late 2018 (Kaplan et al, 2018) and early 2019 (Adin et al, 2019), five new research studies have been published in the last year, helping us to better understand this unusual form of DCM and getting us closer to identifying the specific cause.