Health
What Short Sleep Actually Does to Metabolic Health, According to Research
Trials now show insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity directly, independent of weight gain, reshaping how doctors talk about diabetes risk.
Nov 2, 2024
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Latest Trends
Scientists Found a Sleeping Brain's Energy Falls Even as Blood Flow Rises Just Before It Starts to Dream
Blood volume in a mouse's cortex begins climbing about 50 seconds before REM sleep starts, but researchers found neuronal ATP levels then drop sharply, suggesting dreaming may be more energy-intensive than the brain's fuel supply can keep up with.
Sep 27, 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
Latest Trends
A Ten Trillion Dollar Industry Has Started Telling Its Customers to Stop Optimising
The 2026 wellness forecasts describe a pivot away from peak performance and towards something more ordinary. That is a strange message from a sector selling trackers, protocols and longevity clinics, and it is worth taking seriously anyway.
Aug 22, 2026
Lifestyle
Dinacharya Said Eat Your Largest Meal at Midday, and Chronobiology Spent the Last Decade Agreeing
The Ayurvedic daily routine and modern circadian science reach several of the same conclusions from completely different premises. Where they converge is worth taking seriously, and where they part company is worth being honest about.
Sep 4, 2026
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
Health
How to Hold Yourself Together When the Region Is on Fire
One in five people who live through conflict develops a mental health condition. Most of the useful advice is unglamorous: fix sleep, ration news, keep routine, and treat connection as a necessity rather than a nicety.
Aug 13, 2026
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
Creatine: The Most-Studied Supplement and What It Actually Does
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
Nutrition
Intermittent Fasting: What the Trials Actually Show
A major Cochrane review of nearly 2,000 people found intermittent fasting barely beats ordinary dieting. Here is what the data really supports.
Mar 10, 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
Diving
Dive Computers and Algorithms: What They Cannot Know About You
A dive computer tracks pressure and time with precision, but the model behind it cannot see the diver wearing it. Here is what that gap actually means.
Mar 19, 2026
