Life Hacks

When it comes to red meat… How much risk increase is enough for us to describe it as “dramatically”? The numbers vary a lot from risk to risk and depending what else is taken into account, but a 11–16% risk increase for unprocessed red meat is a range that comes up in a lot of…

We’ve previously wrote about about melatonin: ❝Melatonin is a hormone normally made in our pineal gland. It helps regulate our circadian rhythm, by making us sleepy. It has other roles too—it has a part to play in regulating immune function, something that also waxes and wanes as a typical day goes by. Additionally, since melatonin…

Good news: you won’t even have to do a lot of it! In fact, just a few minutes daily, adding up to 15–20 minutes per week, is already a huge and beneficial improvement over not doing that. See for example: How Useful Is “Exercise Snacking”, Really? If you have the time/energy though, then yes, more…

It has been previously established that it is good if breakfast is the largest meal of the day: Mythbusting Breakfast-Time …with meals getting progressively smaller thereafter. But what if we want to do intermittent fasting, and perhaps decide to skip breakfast for it? Circadian rhythm matters Regular readers may recall that circadian rhythm is about…

Alcohol is, of course, unhealthy. Not even the famous “small glass of red” is recommended: Can We Drink To Good Health? ← this was mostly about the purported heart health benefits, and the answer to the question is: no, we cannot, and as WHO has declared, “the only safe amount of alcohol is zero”) See…

Vaccines are great! They’re not a panacea and they absolutely have their limitations, but they also save many millions of lives per year, so that’s a big win. However, those limitations do mean that whenever we can find a way to make them work better, it’s very positive news. And that’s what we have for…

❝There’s been a controversy over hormone therapy use. There was a study back in 2002 called the Women’s Health Initiative, and its results scared everybody out of using estrogen therapy. For a long time, people stopped prescribing and using those therapies, thinking that it was going to lead to negative outcomes. Since then, there’s been…

When it comes to eating vs cancer, usually the talk is about macros, for example: Eat To Beat Cancer Indeed, whole books have been written on that, such as The Cancer Code − by Dr. William Fung However, today we’re going to talk about an important (and vastly underrated) micronutrient: Why niacin is extra nice…

We’ve previously covered such topics as Do CBD Gummies Work? and How Effective Is THC Against Chronic Pain?, as well as more general perspectives along the lines of Do “Natural” Painkillers Really Work?, but what of these newly-examined cannabis compounds that are neither CBD nor THC, but may well work against pain, including fibromyalgia pain…

The relationship between exercise and cancer has sometimes been laden with confusion, and in particular, it was long popularly believed that exercise accelerates cancer once it occurs, but now it seems that’s not the case. You might have read about that, and specifically about how a research team (Dr. Alice Avancini et al.) analysed data…

Intermittent fasting is mostly enjoyed for its metabolic benefits, such as How To Prevent And Reverse Type 2 Diabetes. We also covered a very related topic, with intermittent fasting once again being on the suggestions list: Improve Your Insulin Sensitivity! ← this is actually more important even that blood sugar control itself, and, which will…

We have previously written about Visceral Belly Fat & How To Lose It, and while we’re a lot less enthusiastic than many about weight loss in general as a panacea (it’s usually not), it is unequivocally true that visceral belly fat specifically has important health impacts, and for most people most of the time, having…