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Introducing Refreshing Peppermint Mouthwash. Go and read the back of your mouthwash. Go on, we'll wait. Ours says: purified water, sodium…

In 2016 a journalist did the one thing nobody had bothered to do in half a century. He asked the US government to show its evidence for flos…

You can run five kilometres and still be quietly getting weaker every single year. That is the uncomfortable truth about cardio. It does won…

An analytical chemist who now spends about half her working week testing black market peptides described what she keeps finding, and it is n…

Ten products. Every one sold as a GLP-1 weight loss treatment. A national medicines regulator ran all ten through a laboratory this year and…

A medicines regulator issued an alert about dosing errors with compounded weight loss injections. The detail that stands out has nothing to …

You floss to keep your dentist happy. The real reason is sitting one layer deeper. Your gums are not a sealed surface. When they are inflam…

Put chemical sunscreen on in the morning and by the afternoon it is circulating in your bloodstream. That claim comes from the regulator's o…

Every grazed knee in history has met the same advice. Let it breathe. Let a good scab form. That advice lost its argument in 1962. A resea…

Take your shoe off and stand on the sole of it. If your bare foot spills over the edges, you have spent your life walking around in somethin…

Half the people who swear they react to gluten have never actually reacted to gluten. In 2018 a team at Oslo University Hospital took 59 ad…

Walk any aisle and count the protein claims. Protein chips. Protein cookies. Protein water. Protein ice cream. Ten years ago those same shel…

A man with two Nobel Prizes talked most of the planet into swallowing grams of vitamin C, and almost nobody went back to check his maths. L…

For thirty years the message was simple: the sun is out to get you, so cover up and slather on SPF before you even open the blinds. Then a t…

Every year, millions of teenagers are booked in to have four healthy teeth cut out of their jaw. Nothing hurts. Nothing is infected. The X-r…

Body fat is an active organ that makes hormones. Most people never hear that part. Fat tissue carries an enzyme called aromatase. Its job i…

A 54-year-old man was eating lunch when he collapsed. Paramedics found his heart in ventricular fibrillation, a chaotic rhythm that stops it…

You bought the bottle because it felt like the clean choice. Here is the part the label leaves out. Researchers who counted the particles i…

You have always been told anxiety is something happening in your head. A surprising amount of it is being wired up from your gut. Connectin…

Somewhere in a feed company's office there is a fan of colour swatches, like the ones at a paint shop, and it decides what shade your dinner…

Thirty grams. You have heard it from trainers and off the back of every protein bar. Eat more than 30g of protein in one sitting and the sur…

Put two fingers on your wrist and count the beats for a minute. That number, your resting heart rate, quietly predicts how long you will liv…

One of the biggest fertility decisions a man makes happens at his underwear drawer, and almost nobody talks about it. Your testicles hang o…

Everyone counts hours of sleep. Almost nobody counts consistency, and the research says consistency might be the better number to watch. Re…