Wildcard

As we enter into less-sunny days in the N. Hemisphere, do we still need to worry about the sun, or can we pretty much forget about it for 6 months? Total UV of the sun Rsearchers (Dr. Rachel Neale et al.) investigated exactly this matter, and found that total UV dose matters, and more specifically,…

The liver is a remarkably regenerative organ, to the point that if you cut away anything up to nearly half of it, it’ll simply grow back (in the absence of some other disease preventing it from doing so of course). This makes its name very appropriate! And yet, there are many ways we can mess…

Regular 10almonds readers will know that very often, Good (Or Bad) Health Starts With Your Blood, and for that reason it’s wise to keep our blood sugar levels healthy. So, in order to keep on top of that, it can be a good idea to Track Your Blood Sugars For Better Personalized Health! But, it’s…

Heart disease kills more adults than any other illness (depending on how we classify things—it can skew the stats if some things are grouped together and others aren’t, but generally speaking, it’s considered #1). Unless people have received a warning from their doctor about their own heart disease risk, however, it’s usual to assume that…

A few years ago, we examined some news about sucralose, thus: The Sucralose News: Scaremongering Or Serious? …and the short version is that initial headlines are often not a completely honest representation of the truth (in the above case, the reality was “this doesn’t look good, but we need to do a lot more science…

Hypothyroidism affects 4–7% of the population, but most goes undiagnosed. If you’re a woman, you’re 11–15% more likely to have it than if you’re a man. The epidemiology of this is interesting, but not our main topic today, so if you’d like to read more about that, then you might want to bookmark this paper…

A lot has been proposed about “this causes autism, that causes autism”. Perhaps the most famous one is “vaccines cause autism”, in which case: Debunking the myth that vaccines cause autism That said, there is one way that being unvaccinated can reduce the risk of being diagnosed with autism, that is if you (or the…

❝Each year in the U.S., over half a million people have a first stroke; however, up to 80% of strokes may be preventable.❞ ~ American Stroke Association Source: New guideline: Preventing a first stroke may be possible with screening, lifestyle changes One thing that’s important to realize about the concept of a “first stroke”, is…

Firstly, we’ll note: no, this is not a statistical misrepresentation in the manner of “ice cream sales cause shark attacks”; it’s a link with a very clearly identifiable mechanism of action. If you’re not sure what we mean about ice cream sales and shark attacks (and other such statistical misrepresentations), see: How Science News Outlets…

This one’s going in our “Wildcard” category, and it is indeed pretty wild. Or at least it seems so from first impressions, but as you’ll see, it actually is very reasonable (even if being consumed from the inside doesn’t feel reasonable)! Remember, you are made of food Inside your gut are your trillions of tiny…

As the world heats up, there’s been a lot in the news not just about the record-breaking temperatures each year, and there’s also been a fair bit written about the effects of extreme heat, and especially prolonged extreme heat, on the human body. For example: How Does Extreme Heat Affect Your Body? And the more…

Many people use cannabis to help them sleep (indeed, it’s even sometimes prescribed for some sleep disorders), and we’ve written about that here: Sweet Dreams Are Made of THC (Or Are They?) The short version is that it works to improve sleep in general, at the cost of reducing your REM sleep specifically, which has…