Choline in Pregnancy: What the New IQ Trial Found
Bemotrizinol: The New Anti-Aging Sunscreen Filter the FDA Just Approved
Walk into a pharmacy in Europe, Japan, or Australia and you’ll find a sunscreen ingredient that protects skin from the signs of aging better than almost anything sold in the United States — without...
Muscle Loss on GLP-1 Drugs: What the Evidence Actually Shows
In 2004, a baby was born in Germany who was, by any normal measure, impossible. He was a few days old, and he already had visible muscles — his thighs and upper arms looked like a tiny bodybuilder....
The Undruggable Gene: How Daraxonrasib Doubled Survival in Pancreatic Cancer
A room full of cancer doctors rose to their feet at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference, applauding the full results of a new cancer trial [1][2] — one with the potenti...
PCSK9 Gene Editing and LDL Cholesterol: How VERVE-102 Works
In April 2024, the trial that was supposed to end heart disease at the source nearly ended in disaster. One of the initial patients to receive the world's first gene-editing infusion designed to p...
Microplastics Research: Why the Headlines Are Wrong (and What Actually Matters)
Madeline Clough, a grad student at the University of Michigan, stumbled upon something that would turn out to be quite embarrassing for the microplastics research field. The popular claim is that ...
Low-Dose Tirzepatide (Zepbound): Evidence Beyond Weight Loss
Tirzepatide — the active ingredient in Mounjaro and Zepbound — was designed as a blood-sugar drug. But across a sequence of large randomised trials, it and its GLP-1 cousins have kept producing ben...
Omega-3 and Brain Health: What a 2026 Alzheimer's Study Got Wrong
Table of Contents The Study Landed What The Study Didn't Measure — The Bottle What The Study Didn't Measure — The Co-Factor What The Evidence Suggests References In 2024, a video titled Your Bra...
Shingles Vaccine and Cardiovascular Health: What the Research Shows
In 2023, a Stanford researcher named Pascal Geldsetzer was examining the way Wales had rolled out the shingles vaccine a decade earlier — and noticed something peculiar. To ration the limited supp...
Seed Oils and Health: What the Evidence Actually Shows
The internet is awash with videos and articles warning about the dangers of seed oils — that they're toxic, inflammatory, and terrible for human health. This article examines where these concerns c...
Early-Onset Colon Cancer: Three Research Teams, Three Suspects
Colon cancer rates in people under 50 have roughly doubled in twenty years. Nobody knows why. The incidence in the sigmoid colon nearly doubled from 1998 to 2022 in people aged 20–49, and 22% of al...
Aspirin and Cancer Prevention: What the Latest Evidence Shows
In 2010, an Oxford neurologist named Peter Rothwell published a paper in The Lancet that rewrote medical guidelines around the world. After analyzing eight randomized trials and twenty-five thousan...
Statins and Cholesterol: Separating Side-Effect Myths from the Evidence
Fifty-five years ago, a Japanese biochemist by the name of Akira Endo isolated a compound from a mold growing on rice in a Kyoto grain shop. It would go on to prevent more heart attacks than almost...
Heart Attack Risk Factors: What Research on 9 Million People Reveals
On July 20, 1984, Jim Fixx — the man whose bestselling book on running had inspired millions of Americans to get in shape — dropped dead of a massive heart attack during his daily run on a quiet Ve...
GLP-1 and Cartilage Regeneration: What the 2026 Semaglutide Study Found
In the early 1990s, an endocrinologist named John Eng walked into his lab at a VA hospital in the Bronx with a vial of dried Gila monster venom. He'd ordered it from a mail-order catalog from a ser...
The LDL Cholesterol Target the Evidence Actually Supports
In 2006, researchers in Dallas found a woman who broke everything science thought it knew about cholesterol. She was 32 years old. A healthy aerobics instructor. Normal liver, normal kidneys, no h...
Cold Remedies That Actually Work: Zinc Lozenges, Saline Rinse, and Honey
In 1979, a 3-year-old girl named Karen was undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia in Austin, Texas. The treatment was saving her life — but it had destroyed her immune system. Every cold hit her hard...
The Anti-Aging Supplement Scam: What the ITP's 20-Year Record Actually Shows
In 2023, the most rigorous lifespan-testing program in the world published its most exciting result in 14 years. A supplement available at any pharmacy — astaxanthin — had extended male mouse lifes...
NMN and NR Supplements: What the Evidence Actually Shows About NAD Precursors
Charles Brenner is not a scammer. He's a genuine biochemist — the man who discovered nicotinamide riboside back in 2004. He's published hundreds of papers. And when a new study came out showing tha...
Full-Body MRI Scans: What the Evidence Says Before You Book One
Table of Contents The Promise The Controversy What the Evidence Shows References A booming industry is selling full-body MRI scans directly to the public — no doctor referral required. Celebriti...
Sodium and Blood Pressure: What the Research Actually Shows
In 1942, a 33-year-old woman walked into a hospital with a blood pressure so high, it was destroying her eyes. Her kidneys were failing. At the time, there were no effective treatments. So in a las...
Diet Quality Beats Low Fat vs Low Carb: Evidence from 5.2 Million Person-Years
A study that tracked 5,248,916 person-years of follow-up has confirmed what the best diet for heart health actually looks like — and the answer may upend decades of nutrition debate [1]. The nutrit...
Oral Hyaluronic Acid Supplements: What the Research Actually Shows
Here is the exact moment where the hyaluronic acid story looks like it comes crashing down. A ground-breaking 2023 study radioactively labeled the hyaluronic acid in supplements to see if it is abs...
Nitric Oxide: Why Arugula Outperforms Supplements
Nitric oxide levels fall with age — and this decline is linked to an array of age-related problems in areas like heart, brain, reproductive, and muscle health [1][2]. Nitric oxide acts as a critica...
Melatonin and Heart Health: What 63 Randomized Trials Actually Show
Contrasting headlines have left melatonin users confused. One alarming 2025 study linked melatonin use to a sharp increase in heart failure risk [1]. Then a separate study told a completely differe...
High-Volume Exercise and Arterial Plaque: What the Evidence Really Shows
A study just published reveals a startling relationship that's the opposite of what most assume. It found that the most heavily trained athletes were almost six times more likely to have plaque in ...