Life Hacks

❝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…

When it comes to resistance training, we’ve written before about how Resistance Is Useful! (Especially As We Get Older). We’ve talked about how it doesn’t have to involve gyms and big iron clanky things: Resistance Beyond Weights …and also about how it doesn’t have to be a lot, for example: How Useful Is “Exercise Snacking”,…

First introduced as a diabetes medication, GLP-1 drugs quickly took hold for off-label use as weight loss aids, even when the science was still very young. Here’s one of our first articles on that, back in the day: Semaglutide’s Surprisingly Big Research Gap As for that popularity? Check out: 1 in 5 US Women Aged…

Spoiler: it’s good What dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this deoxyribonucleic coil, …must indeed give us pause! Researchers (Dr. Umaimah Zanif et al.) did a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 40 night-shift workers tested whether taking 3mg of melatonin daily for 4 weeks before daytime sleep (because: night-shift workers) could improve the body’s…

On May the 4th (International Star Wars Day), we joked: May The Fourth Be With You ✨ If you’re trying to remember what that mystical web-like thing is that surrounds us, fills us, and binds us together… It’s collagen! So, to help your body make more collagen, make sure to get plenty of protein, vitamins…

First, what is leaky gut? It’s when the barrier between the gut and the rest of the body gets punctured, and things that should definitely stay in the gut escape into the rest of the body. You may be wondering: how does the gut get punctured and is this only a risk if someone’s stabbing…

We’ve written before about the benefits of intermittent fasting, such as: 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…