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We hear "cancer breakthrough" every year.

In the early 1990s, a team of scientists went door to door through one suburb of Rotterdam and asked nearly five thousand people over the age of fifty-five a simple question.

In 1916, a pathologist named Dr David Marine walked into a school board meeting in Ohio, and asked for permission to run an experiment on four and a half thousand schoolgirls.

In the summer of 1890, a seventeen-year-old named Bessie Dashiell caught her hand between two train-car seats.

It's difficult not to get irritated.

In 2007, Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory summed up the mainstream view of multivitamins in two words: expensive urine.

Ever wondered why an astronaut needs to sit in a wheelchair when they come home?

On the 31st of July, a drug company found out it had just lost about thirty billion dollars in a single day.

You cut back on food.

In August 1990, a chemist named Duane Burnett walked into John Clader's office in New Jersey to discuss the results of their failed experiment.

In 1989, a Croatian researcher called Predrag Sikirić had, after more than a decade of trying, finally isolated a molecule he called BPC-157 — one that, in his experiments, seemed to heal and protect almost every tissue in the body.

Jeremy Clarkson recently went public about surviving prostate cancer, and he offered some blunt advice: if your doctor won't test you, lie to get the test.

Two people walked into a clinic this month with almost exactly the same blood-pressure reading.

There's a type of fat sitting in direct contact with your heart.

Gout treatment has recently changed, and I'm tired of seeing it mishandled in the clinic.

Earlier this month, one of the most rigorous trials ever run on a vitamin was stopped early — because the people getting the vitamin were dying faster than the people getting nothing [1].

A year ago, I made a video about vitamin K2.

There's a man in Wales who earns millions of dollars by reading other people's research.

Walk into a pharmacy in Europe, or Japan, or Australia, and you’ll find a sunscreen ingredient that protects your skin from the signs of aging better than anything sold in the United States — and it doesn’t have the absorption safety questions that hang o…

In 2004, a baby was born in Germany who was, by any normal measure, impossible.

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

In April 2024, the trial that was supposed to end heart disease at the source nearly ended in disaster.

Madeline Clough, a grad student at the University of Michigan, stumbled upon something that would turn out to be quite embarrassing for the microplastics research field.

I take 1.25mg of tirzepatide every week.

In 2024, I made a video called Your Brain on Omega-3.

In 2023, a Stanford researcher named Pascal Geldsetzer was looking at the way Wales had rolled out the shingles vaccine a decade earlier — and he noticed something peculiar.

This will no doubt be one of my most hated articles, but I'm here to show you the evidence, and let the evidence speak for itself.

Colon cancer rates in people under 50 have roughly doubled in twenty years.

In 2010, an Oxford neurologist named Peter Rothwell published a paper in The Lancet that rewrote medical guidelines around the world.

Fifty-five years ago, a Japanese biochemist by the name of Akira Endo isolated a compound from a mold growing on rice in a Kyoto grain shop.