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11 stories for“detox”
Detoxification is a genuine medical process and a genuine biochemical one. Neither has anything to do with juice cleanses, foot pads or teas, and the marketing depends on never naming which toxin is being removed.
Sep 4, 2026
Two Ayurvedic oral practices have gone mainstream on very different evidence bases. Neither replaces a toothbrush, and one of them has a Cochrane review that found two trials and forty people.
Sep 4, 2026
Saline nasal irrigation has reasonable evidence behind it for sinus symptoms. It also has a rare, almost uniformly fatal complication, and avoiding it requires one specific instruction that most people have never been given.
Sep 4, 2026
Yogic breathing is unusual among wellness practices in having a measurable, replicated physiological effect. The size of it is modest, the mechanism is well understood, and a few of the more dramatic techniques carry real risk.
Sep 4, 2026
One in five people who live through conflict develops a mental health condition. Most of the useful advice is unglamorous: fix sleep, ration news, keep routine, and treat connection as a necessity rather than a nicety.
Aug 13, 2026
