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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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15 stories for“cognition”
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Adults Over Forty Thought Twelve Per Cent Faster After a Month With an Air Purifier
A randomised crossover trial with a sham unit found the effect only in participants aged 40 and over. It is also a secondary outcome analysis, it ran for a month, and it had fewer than ten people over 60 in it.
Aug 31, 2026
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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
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Meditation Has Adverse Effects, and the People Most Likely to Meet Them Are the Ones Told It Cannot Hurt
Contemplative practice has real benefits and a real adverse event literature that wellness culture has quietly declined to read. In a survey of 1,370 regular meditators, 22 percent reported particularly unpleasant experiences.
Sep 4, 2026
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Loneliness Raises the Risk of Early Death by About a Quarter, and the World Health Organization Now Counts It as a Cause
A meta-analysis of seventy studies put the increased mortality risk from loneliness at 26 per cent and from living alone at 32 per cent. A WHO commission estimates 871,000 deaths a year. What the numbers mean, and what has been shown to help.
Aug 23, 2026
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Yoga Nidra Is Not Sleep, and the Research on It Is Better Than the Research on Most Things Sold Beside It
A guided practice of lying still while systematically moving attention around the body. It has accumulated a real randomised trial literature for sleep, stress and anxiety, and a rebranded version has attracted claims that literature does not support.
Sep 4, 2026
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Sleeping Through a Gulf Summer: Why Heat Wrecks Sleep and What Helps
Falling asleep requires your core temperature to drop, which is difficult when the night does not cool. The fixes that work target body temperature rather than room temperature, and cost very little.
Aug 13, 2026
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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
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Watching From Abroad: When the War Is at Home and You Are Not
For much of the Gulf's working population, the conflict is somewhere their family lives and they do not. The particular difficulty of that position is helplessness, and there are things that genuinely help with it.
Aug 13, 2026
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Diabetes Asks You to Make About 180 Decisions a Day, Then Calls You Non-Compliant When You Stop
Diabetes distress is not depression and it is not a character weakness. It is the predictable response to a condition that never grants a day off, and it is one of the strongest predictors of how the numbers go.
Aug 18, 2026
