A 467-person randomized trial found that blocking mobile internet for two weeks improved mental health more than antidepressants and rivaled cognitive behavioral therapy. Inside the digital wellbeing science, the attention…
A quiet conclusion has emerged from microbiome science: variety, not any single superfood, predicts a resilient gut and lower systemic inflammation. Inside the American Gut Project finding that launched the…
Cardiology, psychiatry, and wearable data have converged on a quiet finding: breathing at roughly six breaths per minute produces measurable shifts in heart rate variability, vagal tone, blood pressure, and…
Twenty years of research from Stuart Phillips, Donald Layman, and the PROT-AGE consortium has produced one of the cleanest signals in nutrition science: adults over 40 need more protein than…
Three decades of Finnish cohort research, anchored by the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease cohort and a 2015 JAMA Internal Medicine paper, have transformed sauna bathing from a cultural ritual into…
Four decades of physiology research, from the Lehrer and Vaschillo resonance breathing protocol to the 2023 Stanford cyclic sighing trial, have transformed slow breathing from a yoga claim into one…
A 226,889 person meta-analysis, a 78,500 person UK Biobank study, and a decade of cohort work have transformed walking from a soft wellness recommendation into one of the most rigorously…
Heart rate variability is the most misunderstood number on your wearable. Inside the science of HRV, the vagus nerve, what the Framingham and UK Biobank studies actually predict, and a…
A 60,977-person UK Biobank study found that sleep regularity predicts all-cause mortality more powerfully than sleep duration. Inside the science of the Sleep Regularity Index, social jet lag, slow-wave sleep,…
A 2023 Stanford randomized trial found that five minutes a day of cyclic sighing produced larger gains in mood, anxiety, and respiratory rate than mindfulness meditation. Inside the vagus nerve…
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