Gut Microbiome Testing: What It Can and Cannot Tell You Today
Mail-in stool tests promise personalized nutrition insight, but the same sample sent to different labs can come back with conflicting advice.
Oct 3, 2025

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Mail-in stool tests promise personalized nutrition insight, but the same sample sent to different labs can come back with conflicting advice.
Oct 3, 2025

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

Oxford Population Health researchers found 37 per cent of adults enrolled in Our Future Health had hypertension, and 59 per cent of those, about 1.3 million people, were undiagnosed. Even diagnosed patients often had it poorly controlled.
Sep 25, 2026

Decades of trials back creatine for muscle and strength, and newer research is testing brain benefits, but the hype has outrun some of the data.
Aug 19, 2024

A proposed rule published on 29 October would triple the iodine minimum, double vitamin D, cap manganese for the first time and lower vitamin A, with 120 days for comment and three years to comply.
Oct 30, 2026

Work in EMBO Reports finds obesity leaves a chemical mark on CD4 T cells that outlasts weight loss. The authors suggest the immune system may need years of sustained maintenance to reset, and say plainly that no long term human study confirms it.
Sep 1, 2026

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
