Hans Selye, a Failed Hormone Hunt, and How ‘Stress’ Became a Word
In the 1930s a young biochemist went looking for a new hormone and found something stranger: the body’s...
Longevity & Supplement Guides
Evidence-scored guides to supplements, biomarkers, and daily protocols. Written the way we score our products: honestly.
Diet Drinks vs Water: What a Two-Year Trial Really Settled
A two-year randomised trial found diet drinks and water did about equally well inside a weight programme. The...
The Conductor’s Stairs: How a London Bus Gave Us the Idea of Exercise
In 1949 Jerry Morris compared London bus drivers with the conductors who climbed the stairs all day. The...
Creatine Without Exercise: Read the 1.1 kg Slowly
A new trial says creatine added lean tissue in people who never trained. In the same study, twelve...
A Warm Bath Before Bed: Heat Up to Cool Down
A warm bath helps sleep for a reason that runs backwards: it makes you shed heat faster. The...
Health claims on food labels: true sentences, missing paragraphs
A new study of nearly 150,000 US food launches found that about half carry a health-related claim, but...
Readiness scores: the most confident number on your wrist
Nearly every wearable now grades your recovery before breakfast. The inputs have decades of research behind them; the...
Can a gut bacterium make you stronger?
A gut microbe called Roseburia inulinivorans went with 29% stronger grips in older adults and made mice about...
220 minus age: the formula nobody derived
The most famous number in fitness was never the result of an experiment. It was a line drawn...
Your dinner moved your deep sleep by two and a half minutes
The headline says eat more protein and fibre and you will sleep better. Two papers sit underneath it:...
How close to failure do you need to train?
Gym culture treats the rep you cannot finish as the only honest one. Pooled effect sizes, a within-person...
Where the risk factor came from
A president died of a pressure everyone had measured and nobody could use. Then a town in Massachusetts...
