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For the dryness that comes with menopause

Jul 31, 2026

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For the dryness that comes with menopause

Sea buckthorn oil eased dry eyes and vaginal dryness in small trials, taken by mouth.

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Jul 29, 2026

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Too slow to count? It prevents falls.

China's tai chi has unusually strong trial evidence for balance, about twice a week.

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Your cinnamon is probably the wrong species

Jul 27, 2026

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Your cinnamon is probably the wrong species

Sri Lanka grows true cinnamon, low in the liver-stressing compound most supermarket cinnamon carries.

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The oil in your hair was studied for your heart

Jul 24, 2026

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The oil in your hair was studied for your heart

Morocco eats argan, and swapped for butter it lowered cholesterol in a small trial.

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Jul 22, 2026

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The grain too small to refine

Ethiopia eats teff whole because it cannot be stripped, and that is the honest benefit.

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Jul 20, 2026

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A food that works like a pill, in twos

Two Brazil nuts covered selenium as well as a supplement, and a handful is too much.

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Your bones use a vitamin the West rarely eats

Jul 17, 2026

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Your bones use a vitamin the West rarely eats

Natto is its richest source, and here is what the evidence does and does not show.

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Cortisol went down. Here is the fine print.

Jul 15, 2026

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Cortisol went down. Here is the fine print.

A standardized root extract over eight weeks, not a calm-flavored latte.

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Jul 14, 2026

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The stomach remedy that beat a placebo

One Greek island still makes it, and the flavored version does nothing.

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The hot room that tracked with a longer life

Jul 10, 2026

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The hot room that tracked with a longer life

In a decades-long Finnish study, the benefit rose with how often, not how hot.

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The spice studied against antidepressants

Jul 8, 2026

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The spice studied against antidepressants

Iran uses saffron generously, America by the pinch for color.

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Mexico's answer to the post-meal sugar spike

Jul 6, 2026

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Mexico's answer to the post-meal sugar spike

A fibrous cactus pad eaten with lunch, and why the juice does nothing.

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Jul 3, 2026

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Why the soy pills did nothing for you

A fermented food from Java, and the microbe that decides if it works.

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Jul 1, 2026

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What Egypt drinks for blood pressure

A concentrated red brew, the over-fifty trials, and how to do it from Ohio.

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Jun 28, 2026

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Finland Built Three Million Of These

The hot room that did what your treadmill keeps promising.

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The Drink Senegal Serves Cold After Every Meal

Jun 27, 2026

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The Drink Senegal Serves Cold After Every Meal

The mechanism is not antioxidants. It is ACE inhibition.

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Peru never ate raw maca. The supplement industry does.

Jun 19, 2026

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Peru never ate raw maca. The supplement industry does.

Three thousand years of processing. One word on a label that changes everything.

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