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Do wellness patches actually work?
Transdermal delivery is well established in clinical medicine. Whether a wellness patch actually works comes down to three things underneath the sticker: whether the...
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Sleeping without melatonin
Melatonin is the default answer to sleep. It is also, for most people, the wrong tool. Not because it is dangerous, but because it...
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What NAD+ is, and why it fades
Longevity has become a loud conversation. Underneath the noise sits one molecule that genuinely matters, and it is worth understanding on its own terms...
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Where creatine actually comes from
Creatine is one of the most researched compounds in nutrition, and one of the few with an evidence base that genuinely holds up. It...
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Why our collagen patch contains no collagen
Collagen is the largest category in beauty from within, and one of the least examined. So it is worth setting out what the research...
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Cortisol is not the villain
Cortisol has become the most blamed molecule in wellness. It is held responsible for weight that will not shift, sleep that will not come,...
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Energy is not something you feel. It is something you make.
The energy category is one of the largest in wellness, and one of the most misleading. Almost all of it sells the same thing...
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The best supplement is the one you actually take
Most conversations about supplements are about what is inside them. Which ingredient, which dose, which study. Almost none are about the thing that has...
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Why supplements upset your stomach
You have probably had this. The queasiness half an hour after a multivitamin. Zinc taken on an empty stomach that makes you want to...
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What B vitamins actually do
B1, B2, B3, B6, B12. Almost everyone has taken them at some point, and almost nobody could say what they actually do. Most people...
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The quiet molecule behind magnolia bark
Magnolia bark has been used in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine for centuries. That is usually where the marketing stops. What is more interesting...
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The molecules your body already makes
Read the back of enough supplement labels and they start to look alike. A list of names, a number beside each one, and an...
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Why sleep gets worse when the clocks go back
The clocks go back on 25 October, and most people brace for the wrong thing. The hour is not the problem. The hour is...