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The radiation has been measured in thousands of people and nothing turns up. The device does turn up, and almost all of it is the half hour you spend holding it in bed.
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In trials where adults were given one sugary drink a day on top of their normal diet, they gained 0.83 kg. Taking one a day away gave half a kilo back. And when you do have one, what is already in your stomach decides how big the sugar spike is.
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The worry is that chewing gum makes your body release insulin as if food were coming, which would matter if you are fasting. Chewing does send that signal, with saliva and gut hormones. When researchers measured the insulin, it had not moved.
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· 13 min read · 12 sources
Per measurement, from the validation studies, with what we would pick for each one. Plus the other half nobody asks: what a sensor strapped to your skin around the clock is actually doing to it.
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· 7 min read · 10 sources
Blue light suppresses melatonin and shifts your body clock. But intensity and timing weigh more than colour, and people differ more than lamps do.
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· 9 min read · 13 sources
One trial found the relief wearers report. Another swapped the lens for an equally dark grey one, and the benefit disappeared. What is left that works.
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Cochrane found no trial free of bias risk. The gap between what people feel and what the equipment records explains almost everything.
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· 11 min read · 13 sources
Every human trial of nattokinase, read and reported: what it does for plaque, blood pressure and clotting, and where the best trial found nothing.
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· 6 min read · 8 sources
We screened 324 controlled trials. The strap itself has never been tested, and in the one sham trial the fake shirt outperformed the real one.
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· 5 min read · 7 sources
The worry comes almost entirely from cell cultures. The reassurance comes from patients. What the clinical evidence says, and the question nobody asked.
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Several meta-analyses say red light on your head helps memory, and there is now a home-device trial. What was measured, and where the evidence is thin.
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· 6 min read · 12 sources
Thousands of children have had red light shone straight into their eyes for myopia. What those trials showed about safety, and where harm did happen.
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· 8 min read · 4 sources
Calculate your biological age free from your own blood work, using the published formula. What it means, how to measure it, and what actually lowers it.
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Grip strength predicts death better than blood pressure does. A real finding from huge cohorts, and widely misread. What it measures and what it does not.
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The word gets used for two different things. Lifespan is how long you live; longevity, as this field uses it, is how many of those years you are well. What determines it, and what is actually proven.
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· 14 min read · 24 sources
The famous Finnish numbers compare sauna users against sauna users, not against people who never go. Everything we found, including the null result.
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Independent lab testing is the only practical way to check a supplement contains what its label claims. Published analyses keep finding ones that do not.
Read articleOne guide per subject, built on the research we publish in full. Every claim traced to a source, including the studies that found nothing.
Air, noise and green space: the three exposures that act on you every day whether you think about them or not, and what the largest studies found.
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Your lipid panel has five or six numbers on it and they are not equally important. Which one carries the risk, which one is a message about something else, and how far diet and training actually move them.
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The one part of your nervous system you can operate on purpose, what five minutes a day was actually measured to do, and the four patterns worth knowing.
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The five numbers that describe it, what fitness turned out to be worth against them, and the two-minute intervention with a randomised trial behind it.
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How one dominant side starts a chain that runs all the way up into your neck, how to work out which link comes first in you, and what to do about it.
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The published formula, run on your own blood values. Free, no account, and nothing leaves your device.
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