Physical/Mental Wellness
The Glucose Monitor on Your Arm Might Be Lying to You
A CGM tells you a great deal about your glucose. It tells you very little about your health — and in healthy people the current sensors may be systematically wrong...
The Cortisol Panic Is a Supplement Funnel Wearing a Hormone's Name
The cortisol you are worried about is almost certainly not the cortisol that causes disease. The rebrand to "nervous system recovery" is the same funnel with better lighting.
The study to remember about parents, phones, and teenagers
The Frontiers in Psychology study doesn't measure your screen time. It measures what your teenager thinks about it — and that is the more useful number.
The Heat Is the Story: Europe's 5,120-Death Signal and What to Actually Do About It
Extreme heat is now the deadliest environmental exposure in Europe, and the individual protective response has not caught up with the risk.
The most surveilled body on earth still missed an autoimmune disease for eleven years
Bryan Johnson's diagnosis is the most useful thing biohacking has produced — a case study in why autoimmune disease evades even a $2m-a-year measurement stack.
"Gas station heroin": how a legal wellness supplement became a Schedule I drug — and what the millions already dependent do now
The "natural wellness" industry manufactured a legal opioid, put it next to the beef jerky, and marketed it as mood support. The DEA has finally called it what it is...
Heat is now a paediatric psychiatric emergency — the Sydney study that puts a number on it
The climate–mental-health link is no longer speculative. It now has a hospital admission number attached to it, and paediatric mental health services in warming countries are the ones being handed...
Postpartum-Plus-Perimenopause: The Collision the System Isn't Set Up For
The average first-time mother in most rich countries is now old enough that her postpartum recovery and her perimenopause are, biologically, the same event — and the healthcare system still...
Yemen · The wellness philosophy killing diabetics across the Arab world
A viral wellness philosophy is now a mass-casualty event in slow motion — and the accelerant is the founder's death.
Zero. The week three prevention arcs closed at once.
For the first time in medical history, a cancer has effectively been engineered out of a birth cohort — and the same fortnight's news makes clear that whether the rest...
Humanmaxxing hits its reality check
"Humanmaxxing" is looksmaxxing's wealthier, older sibling — a longevity aesthetic sold as science, arriving at the exact moment the science is quietly retreating.
The Butter Mom Problem
The trend is right about what's broken and wrong about the cure.
The heat is the disease: Europe's June 2026 heatwave is a wellness story dressed as a weather story
This is a public health failure, not a weather event — and the durable fix is behavioural and structural, not technological.
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