Cold exposure, red light, fasting protocols, self-quantification.
For years, sugar alcohols — the polyols behind almost every “keto,” “zero-sugar,” and diabetic-friendly product on the shelf — were the boring, safe choice: sweet like sugar, barely any calories, and next to no effect on blood glucose.
For a decade the continuous glucose monitor (CGM) has been the flagship metabolic wearable, and now a sibling has arrived: the continuous ketone monitor, or CKM — a small sensor you wear on the back of the arm that tracks beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB, the main…
Here is the honest version, up front. Binaural beats are one of the strangest, most genuinely interesting audio phenomena you can experience on a pair of headphones — play one tone in your left ear and a slightly different one in your right, and your brain …
Close your mouth and breathe through your nose — the books and podcasts promise it will transform your oxygenation, your endurance, and your health. Some of that is real.
I wanted these to work. Amber lenses are cheap, harmless, and pitched at a problem — screens wrecking our eyes and our sleep — that feels obviously true.
Slip on a slim headband, close your eyes, and an app reads your brainwaves in real time — rain falls when your mind wanders, calms when it settles. Muse and its competitors promise to turn that loop into a sharper, calmer, more optimized brain.
Valter Longo’s five-day “fast with food” — sold as ProLon — is one of the rare longevity products with actual human randomized trials behind it.
A pressurized chamber and 100% oxygen is one of the oldest pieces of established medicine on the longevity shelf — and one of the most oversold. It genuinely heals wounds that won’t close and saves divers from the bends.
Spit in a tube, mail it off, and a few weeks later a report tells you your “biological age” — sometimes younger than your birth certificate, sometimes alarmingly older — along with a number for how fast you’re aging and whether your latest protocol is “reve…
A 48-year-old tech millionaire spends roughly two million dollars a year, swallows more than a hundred pills a day, eats his last meal before most people leave the office, and says he has reversed his aging by a couple of decades.
BHB salts, ketone esters, and the new wave of apple-cider-vinegar “keto gummies” are sold as a shortcut into fat-burning ketosis — weight loss in a drink, no diet required.
The daily cold shower is sold as a fat-loss hack, a mood cure, and an immune shield. Strip the hype and a narrower, honest picture remains: a cheap hormetic stressor with a real alertness jolt, a modest sick-day signal, and almost no case as…
Walk into a wellness clinic and you can now buy an “NAD+ drip” for anywhere from $200 to $1,000 a session, sold for energy, anti-aging, brain fog, hangover recovery, even kicking addiction.
One of these has real trial evidence. One is plausible but barely tested. One produces genuine physiology and then gets oversold into disease cures — with a safety rule you cannot skip. Here's the calibrated read.
Heart-rate variability is the rare wellness metric with real physiology behind it — a genuine window onto your autonomic nervous system, validated across decades of cardiology.
Grounding — or earthing — is one of wellness culture’s most viral ideas: press your bare skin to the ground, the story goes, and a flow of electrons from the earth quiets inflammation, deepens sleep, thins your blood, and rebalances your body.
The “Glucose Goddess” phenomenon has put one idea into millions of kitchens: blunt your blood-sugar spikes and your life gets better. Walk after meals, drink vinegar before them, eat your vegetables first, swap the sweet breakfast for a savory one.
There is a chemical in broccoli sprouts that researchers have tested in over 70 registered clinical trials — for cancer prevention, carcinogen detoxification, inflammation, blood sugar, airway disease, autism, and schizophrenia.