Health
Menopause Brain Fog Is Real, but It Is Not a Personal Failure
A new WHO discussion brings cognition and mental health into menopause care, where sleep, mood, symptoms and individual medical history all matter.
Jul 31, 2026
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27 stories for“brain”
Health
Something Has Been Crossing Into the Ageing Human Brain That Was Not Supposed to Get In
Stanford researchers borrowed the trick a consumer ancestry test uses and found immune cells migrating out of the blood and into the human brain from middle age onwards. Mice do not do it. Nor did the primates tested alongside them.
Aug 25, 2026
Technology
A Brain Interface Worked at Home, Where Assistive Technology Actually Has to Live
A man with ALS used an implanted brain-computer interface independently for speech and computer control at home, moving the technology beyond a short laboratory demonstration.
Aug 1, 2026
Health
Creatine: The Most-Studied Supplement and What It Actually Does
Decades of trials back creatine for muscle and strength, and newer research is testing brain benefits, but the hype has outrun some of the data.
Aug 19, 2024
Health
Women Were Warned for Twenty Years That Hormone Therapy Raised Dementia Risk. A Study of 21,000 Points the Other Way.
Estrogen-only therapy was associated with 39 per cent lower odds of dementia, and with fewer amyloid plaques and tau tangles in donated brains. It is observational, and the group that receives it is unusual.
Aug 22, 2026
Nutrition
The Mice Kept Eating Less and Put the Weight Back On Anyway. That Is the Interesting Part.
A Yale study found semaglutide switches the brain's hunger neurons on rather than off, and that those neurons are required for fat loss to last. Remove them and the mice ate just as little and regained the weight within fifteen days.
Aug 25, 2026
Diving
Your First Night Dive: What Changes When the Light Goes
The same reef becomes a different site after dark, and so does the diving. Navigation, buddy contact and the way your brain handles a narrow beam all need rethinking before you get in.
Aug 8, 2026
Diving
Shallow Water Blackout: The Mechanism That Kills Competent Freedivers
Shallow water blackout does not warn its victim first. Here is the physiology behind it, why it strikes trained divers, and why solo breath hold diving is never safe.
Jun 10, 2024
Health
PRIMA’s Retinal Implant Wins Approval to Restore Vision
A tiny implant paired with camera glasses can return useful central vision to some people with advanced macular degeneration, and Europe has cleared its sale.
Jul 23, 2026
Health
High Blood Sugar Damages You Over Decades. Low Blood Sugar Can Do It Before Lunch
Diabetes care is organised around bringing numbers down, which makes it easy to forget that the acute danger points the other way. The ADA defines three levels of hypoglycaemia, and the third one requires another person.
Aug 6, 2026
Health
What GLP-1 Drugs Actually Do Inside Your Body
GLP-1 receptor agonists did not start as weight loss drugs. Here is the biology behind Ozempic, Mounjaro and the hormone they mimic.
Jan 25, 2024
Health
A Personalized Gene Therapy Helped Two Boys With Severe Epilepsy
Two individualized antisense treatments reduced the effects of a rare SCN2A disorder. The results are hopeful, but they come from two carefully monitored patients, not a broad trial.
Aug 1, 2026
Latest Trends
Wildfire Smoke Does Not Respect Borders, and Its Health Toll Outlasts the Flames
As fires force evacuations across France and Spain, fine particles can travel far beyond fire lines and worsen heart and lung disease after the immediate emergency fades.
Jul 25, 2026
Diving
Static Apnea: How People Hold Their Breath for Eleven Minutes
The records look impossible until you learn what the body does when the face hits cold water. Most of the gain is physiological adaptation and relaxation, not lung size, and one record category is not comparable to the others.
Aug 11, 2026
Health
Diabetic Nerve Damage Can Mean Burning Pain or Feeling Nothing at All. It Is the Same Condition
One patient cannot bear a bedsheet touching their feet. Another cannot feel a nail through their shoe. Both have diabetic neuropathy, and the second is in more danger than the first.
Jul 28, 2026
Health
One Receptor, Two, or Three: Comparing Semaglutide, Tirzepatide and Retatrutide
Ozempic, Mounjaro and the drug that has not arrived yet are not three versions of the same thing. They hit different receptors, produce different results, and suit different people.
Aug 11, 2026
Health
What Actually Happens When You Stop Taking a GLP-1
Trial data on stopping semaglutide shows most of the lost weight comes back within a year. Here is what the STEP 1 extension found.
May 15, 2024
Nutrition
Coeliac, Wheat Allergy or Gluten Sensitivity: They Are Not the Same Thing
Three different conditions get flattened into one phrase. One is autoimmune, one is an allergy and one is a diagnosis of exclusion, and the testing order matters more than most people realise.
Aug 8, 2026
Latest Trends
The Accent Wall Is Dead. In 2026 the Pattern Goes on All Four Walls and the Ceiling Too
Colour drenching taught people to paint a room in one shade. Pattern drenching takes the next step and wraps the whole envelope, ceiling included, in a single design. It is the loudest interiors idea in years and it is not maximalism.
Aug 20, 2026
Nutrition
Meal Timing and Late-Night Eating: What Circadian Nutrition Research Actually Shows
Chrononutrition research links late eating to worse metabolic outcomes, but the field is younger and messier than headlines suggest.
Sep 25, 2025
Diving
Breath-Hold Training on Land: What Evidence Actually Supports
CO2 tables build genuine breath hold tolerance over weeks. Hyperventilating beforehand does the opposite of what beginners think it does, and it has killed trained divers.
Sep 2, 2025
Health
Gut Microbiome Testing: What It Can and Cannot Tell You Today
Mail-in stool tests promise personalized nutrition insight, but the same sample sent to different labs can come back with conflicting advice.
Oct 3, 2025
Diving
The Mammalian Dive Reflex: A Human Body on One Breath
Submersion triggers an ancient reflex that slows the heart, redirects blood, and quietly reshapes what a trained freediver's body can survive underwater.
Sep 18, 2024
Diving
Enchante Gallardo Ties the Women's Free Immersion Record at 106m
At the Asian Freediving Cup in Panglao, the Hawaii-based American pulled herself to 106 metres and back on one breath, matching a mark Natalia Zharkova has held alone until now.
Aug 3, 2026
Diving
Fitness to Dive: Why the Medical Form Is Not a Formality
PFO, asthma, diabetes and certain medications can all change whether diving is safe. Here is why the medical questionnaire before a course matters.
Jan 27, 2025
Diving
Nitrogen Narcosis: What Depth Does to a Diver's Judgment
Nitrogen narcosis dulls judgment before a diver notices anything is wrong. Here is why depth impairs decision making, and why self-diagnosis often fails.
May 22, 2024
Latest Trends
School Was Built for a World Where Knowledge Was Expensive. That World Ended and the Building Did Not
The rules that made sense when a teacher was the only source in the room are now the ones causing damage. The answer is not less rigour. It is rigour moved to the place where it still means something.
Aug 18, 2026
