Health
GLP-1 Drugs Are Becoming More Than Weight Loss Medicine
Tirzepatide just earned an approval that has nothing to do with the scale. Here is what SELECT, FLOW and the new sleep apnea data show.
Jan 8, 2025
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Nutrition
Why the Mediterranean Diet Keeps Winning the Evidence Wars
One Spanish randomised trial cut heart attacks and strokes by roughly 30 percent using olive oil and nuts. Here is why that result has held up so well since.
Jun 18, 2024
Nutrition
Every Extra 100 Grams of Ultra-Processed Food Daily Tied to Higher Disease Risk in an 8.8 Million-Person Study
A pooled analysis of 51 cohort studies spanning up to 32 years of follow-up found higher ultra-processed food intake linked to greater risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, depression and death, with digestive disease risk up 31 per cent.
Sep 27, 2026
Health
Heart Failure and Heart Attack Admissions Rose Faster Where US Cannabis Was Legalised, Study Reports
A BMJ Open analysis of 50 million hospital discharges found faster yearly rises in heart failure, heart attack and atrial fibrillation admissions in the Western states. It cannot show cause.
Oct 23, 2026
Nutrition
A Study of 371,000 Americans Found Whole Fruit, Not Juice, Is Linked to Better Heart Health
Adults who reported high blood pressure, high cholesterol or heart disease ate whole fruit slightly less often than those without those conditions, while fruit juice intake showed no comparable protective pattern, a large US survey found.
Oct 1, 2026
Nutrition
Regular Tea Drinkers Had 11 Percent Lower Vascular Disease Risk in a Study of 486,000 Chinese Adults
A China Kadoorie Biobank analysis in the Journal of Internal Medicine links habitual tea to fewer heart and stroke events, with black tea, moderate strength and not-too-hot cups doing best.
Nov 3, 2026
Health
The Finnish Sauna Study Everyone Quotes Is Real, and It Is Weaker Than the Wellness Industry Wants It to Be
Men who used a sauna four to seven times a week had far fewer sudden cardiac deaths over twenty years than men who went once. That finding launched an industry. What the study can and cannot support, and who should be careful.
Sep 6, 2026
Nutrition
Wine Drinkers Died Less Often in a 340,000 Person Study, and the Most Likely Explanation Is Dinner
An analysis of 340,924 UK Biobank adults found moderate wine drinkers had a 21 per cent lower risk of cardiovascular death, while beer, cider and spirits went the other way. The researchers' own leading explanation is not the wine.
Aug 28, 2026
Health
The First Oral PCSK9 Drug Changes the Cholesterol Treatment Conversation
FDA approval of the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor adds a once-daily option for adults who need greater LDL reduction, but it does not replace individualized cardiovascular care.
Aug 1, 2026
Health
Ozempic and Wegovy: What the Trials Actually Showed
Semaglutide now has a heart disease approval too. Here is what the STEP and SELECT trial data really says, and what it does not.
Mar 13, 2024
Nutrition
What Happens to Your Gut When You Remove Fruit and Vegetables
Fibre is not a supplement you can skip and make up later. Take it out of a diet and the effects run from the bowel to blood glucose to long-term cardiovascular risk.
Jun 24, 2026
Nutrition
The Carnivore Diet's Evidence Problem, Explained Plainly
All meat, no plants, and a wave of enthusiastic testimonials online. The actual research base behind the claims is nine small studies with no control group at all.
Apr 5, 2026
Health
Mounjaro and Zepbound: The Case for Two Hormones at Once
Tirzepatide just beat semaglutide head to head in a major trial. Here is what SURMOUNT and SURPASS data actually shows about hitting two receptors.
Dec 9, 2024
Health
The Diabetes Drug That Turned Out to Be a Kidney Drug
SGLT2 inhibitors were developed to lower blood sugar by making you urinate it out. The glucose effect turned out to be the least interesting thing about them, and the kidney trials changed how this complication is treated.
Jul 25, 2026
Health
A Bedroom That Is Not Quite Dark Is Linked to a Thicker, Stiffer Heart, in the First Study to Measure Both
Eleven thousand people wore a light sensor for a week. Three years later, those who slept in more than three lux, a very dim room, had thicker left ventricles and muscle that flexed less. The differences are small. Cardiologists still care.
Sep 12, 2026
Health
Retatrutide: The Triple Agonist Still Proving Itself
Retatrutide just posted phase 3 weight loss data hitting three hormone receptors at once. Here is what is confirmed and what remains unproven.
May 27, 2026
Diving
Fitness to Dive: Why the Medical Form Is Not a Formality
PFO, asthma, diabetes and certain medications can all change whether diving is safe. Here is why the medical questionnaire before a course matters.
Jan 27, 2025
Latest Trends
Wildfire Smoke Does Not Respect Borders, and Its Health Toll Outlasts the Flames
As fires force evacuations across France and Spain, fine particles can travel far beyond fire lines and worsen heart and lung disease after the immediate emergency fades.
Jul 25, 2026
Health
ACOG's New Menopause Guideline Backs Hormone Therapy, Adds Non-Hormonal Drugs and Rejects Soy and Herbal Supplements
The first full US update since 2014 gives strong backing to hormone therapy started early, puts newer neurokinin drugs on the list, and says the evidence does not support herbal remedies.
Oct 26, 2026
Health
WHO Launches a Global Roadmap on Pre-Eclampsia and Pregnancy Hypertension, Tied to 42,000 Maternal Deaths a Year
The plan to 2035 targets a research gap, since few medicines exist for the condition, and the basic checks and drugs that many women still cannot reach in time.
Oct 8, 2026
Nutrition
The WHO Advised Against Sweeteners, and Then Made One Exception That Nobody Reported
The 2023 guideline told people not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight control. It explicitly does not apply to people who already have diabetes, which is precisely the group that read the headline and threw them out.
Aug 11, 2026
Health
One Receptor, Two, or Three: Comparing Semaglutide, Tirzepatide and Retatrutide
Ozempic, Mounjaro and the drug that has not arrived yet are not three versions of the same thing. They hit different receptors, produce different results, and suit different people.
Aug 11, 2026
Health
Retatrutide's Phase 3 Run Is Nearly Complete. The Numbers Are the Largest Yet
TRIUMPH-2 and TRIUMPH-3 read out in July, following TRIUMPH-1 in May. Across the programme the triple agonist has produced weight loss in a range no approved obesity drug has reached, with a filing due in early 2027.
Aug 11, 2026
Nutrition
Ultra-Processed Food: What the Research Actually Shows
One rigorous NIH trial proved ultra-processed diets cause overeating. A UK parliamentary report says the classification behind it is too blunt.
Jun 2, 2026
Health
Muscle Pulls Glucose Out of Your Blood Without Asking Insulin's Permission
Contracting muscle opens a separate doorway for glucose that does not require insulin at all. It explains why a ten minute walk after dinner works, why lifting weights matters more than it is given credit for, and why a hard sprint can send the number up.
Aug 9, 2026
Nutrition
Mediterranean Diet Keeps Winning: What Research Says
The Mediterranean diet isn't trendy, it's proven. New 2025 research shows it cuts diabetes risk by a third when combined with lifestyle changes.
Feb 10, 2025
Health
Strength Training for Longevity: Muscle as an Organ of Healthspan
New mortality data pinpoints how much weekly strength training lowers death risk, and shows more is not always better.
Apr 10, 2025
Diving
The Mammalian Dive Reflex: A Human Body on One Breath
Submersion triggers an ancient reflex that slows the heart, redirects blood, and quietly reshapes what a trained freediver's body can survive underwater.
Sep 18, 2024
Health
Continuous Glucose Monitors Without Diabetes: Useful Data or Noise?
Over-the-counter glucose monitors reached healthy consumers in 2024, but research suggests their readings may not mean what wearers assume.
Jul 22, 2025
Nutrition
Salt and Blood Pressure: The Evidence, and the Gulf's Convenience-Food Problem
WHO sets a 5 gram salt ceiling; the Gulf's average intake runs far above it, driven largely by bread and processed food.
Jan 16, 2025
Health
Retatrutide's Third Receptor Is the Hormone That Raises Blood Sugar. Adding It On Purpose Is the Whole Idea
Semaglutide hits one receptor and tirzepatide hits two. The third one retatrutide adds is glucagon, which does the opposite of what a diabetes drug is supposed to do. It is also where the liver results and the safety questions both come from.
Aug 20, 2026
Health
A Night-Owl Subtype of Depression Appears to Start Earlier, Hit Harder and Respond Worse to Common Antidepressants
Sydney researchers who analysed more than 10,000 Australians with depression found a group with seasonal, late-sleeping patterns. The findings are associations, and treatment claims are untested.
Oct 21, 2026
Health
Creatine Helped Adults in Their 40s, 50s and 60s Build Muscle Even Without a Workout Plan, Texas A&M Study Finds
Sixty-four adults aged 45 to 65 who took 10 grams of creatine daily for 12 weeks gained lean tissue and strength regardless of whether they followed a structured exercise programme, researchers at Texas A&M reported.
Oct 1, 2026
Nutrition
In a Norwegian Trial, a Very Low-Carb Diet Heavy in Saturated Fat Raised LDL but Not ApoB
Bergen researchers followed 193 adults with obesity for up to two years and found triglycerides fell and HDL rose, but they stress that risk markers are not heart attacks.
Oct 29, 2026
Nutrition
A Healthy Diet Is Becoming a Luxury, and That Is a Public Policy Failure
The 2026 global food-security debate is shifting from calories alone to whether families can afford nutritious food. The consequences reach health, education and productivity.
Jul 31, 2026
Health
A Tape Measure Round the Waist Did the Same Job as Four Measurements and a Formula
In 1,900 American adults, waist circumference on its own matched a new multi measurement framework against a proper body fat scan. BMI alone missed a substantial number of people who met the body fat criteria for obesity.
Sep 1, 2026
Sports
Starting to Run at Forty: What the Injury Data Says About the First Twelve Weeks
Most new runners who stop do so because they got hurt, and most got hurt because they ran too much too soon. The heart and lungs adapt in weeks; tendons and bone take months. Build for the slow tissues.
Jun 25, 2024
Nutrition
A Protein Bar Is Ultra-Processed. New Trial Data Says That May Not Be the Point
Protein-enriched processed foods produced higher satiety hormones and lower calorie intake than normal-protein versions of the same products. It complicates a classification a lot of advice now rests on.
Aug 17, 2026
Diving
When Scientists Dive, Credentials Do Not Remove the Risk
Research divers work under formal scientific diving safety standards, but a marine science background does not make deep or technical diving inherently safer to attempt.
Jun 14, 2026
Diving
CO2 and O2 Tables: The Dry Training That Actually Moves Your Breath-Hold
Two tables, two different adaptations, and a hard rule about where you do them. One trains tolerance to discomfort, the other trains efficiency at low oxygen, and confusing them wastes weeks.
Aug 12, 2026
Health
The Al-Awady Death: What Is Confirmed and What Is Still Open
A UAE medical report found a natural death from sudden cardiac arrest. Egypt then exhumed the body for a second examination. Both of those facts are true, and neither cancels the other.
May 17, 2026
Diving
Freediving Breathing: What Helps, What Does Nothing, and What Can Kill You
Breathe-up, diaphragmatic breathing and the recovery breath are the three that matter. Hyperventilation is the one that removes your warning that you are about to black out.
Aug 10, 2026
Health
Sleeping Through a Gulf Summer: Why Heat Wrecks Sleep and What Helps
Falling asleep requires your core temperature to drop, which is difficult when the night does not cool. The fixes that work target body temperature rather than room temperature, and cost very little.
Aug 13, 2026
Health
Omega Three and a Daily Aspirin Matched Antibiotics for Severe Gum Disease Over a Full Year
In a placebo controlled trial of 109 people, 58 per cent of the antibiotic group and 57.7 per cent of the supplement group reached the clinical target. The placebo group reached 23.1 per cent, and that third number is what makes the first two mean anything.
Aug 31, 2026
Sports
Rest Days: What Recovery Actually Requires, and Why Doing Nothing Is Often the Wrong Kind of Rest
Training is the stimulus; adaptation happens in the hours between sessions, and it needs sleep, food and time in roughly that order. Ice baths, compression and massage guns are at the margins. Light movement usually beats the sofa.
Apr 15, 2026
Nutrition
A Diet Trial Was Stopped Early Because the Control Group Was Doing Measurably Worse
PREDIMED tested a Mediterranean diet with added olive oil or nuts against low-fat advice. Diabetes incidence was 6.9 per cent with olive oil against 8.8 per cent on the low-fat arm, and the follow-up trial did considerably better.
Aug 15, 2026
Nutrition
What Nizam al-Tayyibat Gets Wrong, Item by Item
Banning fish and fruit while encouraging red meat and starch is not a cautious eating plan. Set against the evidence, each exclusion removes something with a measurable protective effect.
Jun 3, 2026
Nutrition
Nizam al-Tayyibat: What the Diet Actually Tells You to Eat
Chicken, eggs, fish, legumes and most vegetables are out. Rice, potatoes, red meat and certain sugars are in. Set out plainly, the food lists are stranger than the slogans suggest.
May 13, 2026
Diving
The Summer's Diving Deaths Have More in Common Than the Coverage Suggests
A cave in the Maldives, a lake in Germany, an inlet in Florida, a tuna farm off Malta. Four very different events, and a short list of factors that shows up in nearly all of them.
Aug 13, 2026
Diving
GUE: The Agency That Will Fail You, and Thinks That Is the Point
Global Underwater Explorers standardises equipment, teaches in teams, tests fitness, and hands out provisional passes rather than certificates. It is the most divisive system in diving, and the most internally consistent.
Aug 12, 2026
Nutrition
What Nizam al-Tayyibat Gets Right, Taken Seriously
Millions of people did not follow this system because they are foolish. Three things about it genuinely work, and understanding them explains the reach better than mockery does.
May 29, 2026
Diving
How Diving Accidents Are Actually Analysed: The Four Links in the Chain
Almost every fatality report ends with drowning, which tells you nothing. Investigators use a four-part chain instead: trigger, disabling agent, disabling injury, cause of death. Here is how to read one.
Aug 12, 2026
Diving
DAN's Safety Guidance, Condensed: What the Research Body Actually Recommends
Divers Alert Network is not a training agency and issues no certifications. It collects the injury data, then publishes guidance based on it. Here is that guidance, in the order it matters.
Aug 12, 2026
Nutrition
Meal Timing and Late-Night Eating: What Circadian Nutrition Research Actually Shows
Chrononutrition research links late eating to worse metabolic outcomes, but the field is younger and messier than headlines suggest.
Sep 25, 2025
Health
Ten Thousand Steps Was a Marketing Number. The Evidence Says the Benefit Flattens Around Seven Thousand
Two large pooled analyses now agree: the drop in mortality with more walking is steep up to about seven thousand steps a day and shallow after that. What the studies found, what they could not show, and what to do with a phone that counts.
Sep 6, 2026
Health
Metformin as an Anti-Aging Drug: The Claims Versus the Trial Data
Biohackers take metformin to slow aging, but the trial designed to actually prove that, TAME, still has not finished enrolling.
May 6, 2024
Nutrition
Fibre Is the Nutrient Almost Everyone Under-Eats, and Here Is What It Does
Most adults eat about half the fibre they need. The gap matters more than dieters realise, and closing it is not about bran.
May 22, 2024
Health
Vitamin D Supplements: A Reality Check on Who Actually Benefits
Large trials with more than 30,000 participants found vitamin D pills do little for people who are not deficient, reshaping decades of assumptions.
Jan 20, 2026
Health
Zone 2 Cardio Versus VO2 Max: Sorting the Training Trend From the Evidence
VO2 max strongly predicts longevity, but the evidence that slow, low-intensity Zone 2 training is the best way to raise it is weaker than the trend suggests.
Jan 15, 2025
Health
Six Breaths a Minute Is the Number, and It Is One of the Few Wellness Claims With Trials Behind It
Yogic breathing is unusual among wellness practices in having a measurable, replicated physiological effect. The size of it is modest, the mechanism is well understood, and a few of the more dramatic techniques carry real risk.
Sep 4, 2026
