The statin threshold just dropped 🧬

A 66-item side-effect list that shrank to four, and a supplement the EU just voted to ban.

Five Drugs, One Lever - What it means for the shopping decision

Statins, ezetimibe, bempedoic acid and a fermented rice — four routes to one receptor, and why your arteries can't tell which one you took

Your blood test measured the wrong thing 🧬

The £0 number that beats the £299 panel. One free calculation you can do tonight, one test worth £30 if you're in the right group, and one you only ever need once.

Your Test Weighs the Cargo. The Damage Is Done by the Lorries

One protein per particle, millions of particles, and the reason lifetime exposure beats any number you can measure on a Tuesday morning

The muscle no supplement can sell you 🧬

Lifting graded A, protein graded B, and the £37 powder most people don't need.

The Vital Sign Nobody Measures

Grip strength predicts death more sharply than blood pressure — but whether you can build your way out of the risk is a harder, more interesting question than the headline admits.

Why the Mouse Lived Longer and You Probably Won't

A 12% lifespan gain in a lab mouse is thrilling, reproducible, and almost never transferable — and taurine is the newest name on a very long list.

The one stress supplement with real trials behind it — and the safety signal the gummies don't mention

Does ashwagandha actually work?

Every Ashwagandha Trial Seems to Work. That's the Problem.

The Blueprint Audit: What 70 Pills a Day Actually Buys

70 pills, three that earn their place - The famous ageing-clock number isn't the win — the boring biomarker underneath it is. We audited the stack. Read on

TRAVERSE didn’t say what your clinic claims 🧬

Three hormone routes graded across men and women. The £600-per-visit pellet model audited. Plus the FDA label change the WHI generation deserved twenty years ago.

When More Testosterone Made Bones Weaker

It is worth being precise about what the fracture finding does and doesn’t do.

One best-selling gummy carried 347% of what the label claimed. What actually works is in the same aisle — at a sixth of the dose, for a fifth of the price.

The $4bn sleep aisle is a con - 0.3mg beats 10mg and nobody’s told you