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  • Walking vs Running for Weight Loss: Which One Actually Wins?

    Walking vs Running for Weight Loss: Which One Actually Wins?

    Weight loss advice has a long history of making simple things complicated and complicated things simple. The walking versus running debate falls squarely into the second category. Most people assume the answer is obvious. Running burns more calories, therefore running wins. The reality is considerably more nuanced than that, and for a meaningful proportion of…

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  • Pets Do Not Just Make You Happy. They Actually Make You Healthier

    Pets Do Not Just Make You Happy. They Actually Make You Healthier

    The idea that pets are good for you has been around for as long as people have kept animals in their homes. For most of that time it was treated as a feel-good observation rather than a scientific proposition worth studying rigorously. That changed over the past three decades as a substantial body of research…

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  • The Complete Guide to Self-Care That Is Actually Evidence-Based

    The Complete Guide to Self-Care That Is Actually Evidence-Based

    Self-care has a branding problem. A term that originated in medical and psychiatric literature as a framework for patients managing chronic illness has been gradually repackaged by the wellness industry into a marketing category built around bath products, subscription boxes, and motivational content. The result is that many people either dismiss self-care as superficial or…

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  • How to Meal Prep a Full Week of Anti-Inflammatory Meals

    How to Meal Prep a Full Week of Anti-Inflammatory Meals

    Most people who want to eat an anti-inflammatory diet do not fail because of a lack of motivation or knowledge. They fail because of friction. On a Tuesday evening after a long day, the gap between knowing you should eat salmon and roasted vegetables and actually cooking them from scratch is wide enough that a…

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  • Therapy vs Meditation: Which One Should You Try First?

    Therapy vs Meditation: Which One Should You Try First?

    At some point most people reach a moment where they know something needs to change about how they are managing their mental and emotional life. The stress is too high, the mood is too low, the anxiety is too persistent, or the sense of being stuck has lasted long enough that ignoring it no longer…

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  • No, You Do Not Need 10,000 Steps a Day. Here Is What You Actually Need

    No, You Do Not Need 10,000 Steps a Day. Here Is What You Actually Need

    The 10,000 steps target is one of the most widely repeated numbers in public health. It appears on fitness trackers, in corporate wellness programs, in government health campaigns, and in the default goal settings of virtually every step-counting app available today. Most people who know this number assume it emerged from decades of exercise science…

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  • The Complete Guide to Healthy Aging After 60

    The Complete Guide to Healthy Aging After 60

    Turning 60 does not mark the beginning of decline. It marks the beginning of a phase where the choices you make about how you live carry more weight than at any earlier point in your life, because the gap between people who age well and people who do not becomes measurably wider with each passing…

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  • What Happens Inside a Phase 1, 2, and 3 Clinical Trial

    What Happens Inside a Phase 1, 2, and 3 Clinical Trial

    Most people who hear about a new drug approval have no mental picture of what happened in the years between the moment a researcher first tested the compound in a laboratory and the moment a regulator decided it was safe and effective enough to prescribe to the general public. That journey is clinical trial research,…

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