Cruciferous Vegetables: Useful, Not a Longevity Cure
Cruciferous vegetables deserve their healthy reputation, but the evidence supports a practical food habit, not detox claims or longevity shortcuts.
HbA1c Testing: Useful Average, Not Full Glucose Story
HbA1c is a useful average of recent glucose exposure, but anaemia, kidney disease, and glucose swings can make the number less complete in practice.
AMH Testing Before Menopause: Useful Signal, Not a Countdown
AMH reflects ovarian reserve, but one blood test cannot date menopause. What anti-Müllerian hormone can tell you, and where marketing overreaches.
Chronotype and Sleep: Your Clock Is Not a Moral Failing
Chronotype shapes when sleep comes easily. The goal is not to force a new identity, but to reduce social jet lag where it harms sleep and health.
Taurine Supplements: Useful Signal, Not Longevity Proof
Taurine has intriguing animal and metabolic data, but human evidence is still too thin to treat it as an anti-ageing supplement for healthy adults.
Push-Ups After 50: Useful Strength Test, Not Destiny
Push-ups can reveal useful upper-body strength after 50, but the count is only a clue. Here is how to train them safely and read the evidence well.
Refeeding After Longer Fasts: Caution, Not Rituals
After a longer fast, the first meal matters less as a ritual than as a metabolic transition. Here is when caution is useful and when it is overkill.
Yoga for Stress: Helpful Practice, Not a Treatment
At 8.47 on a Tuesday evening, the mat can look less like a wellness object than a small negotiation with the day. The email has been sent, the kitchen has gone quiet, and the body is still behaving as if something is due. Yoga enters that moment with a reasonable promise: not cure, not transformation, … Read more
Legumes for Longevity: Useful, But Not a Miracle Food
Legumes look ordinary, but evidence links beans, lentils and chickpeas with better cardiometabolic health. The useful weekly dose is modest.
Faecal Calprotectin: Gut Inflammation Signal, Not Diagnosis
Faecal calprotectin can flag gut inflammation and help separate IBD from IBS, but the number needs symptoms, context, and follow-up before guiding care.