So your knee is hurting, and you are wondering what you can do about it. Surgery? Physiotherapy? Or just grin and bear it? It is surprising just how many people have knee pain. So what can you do? Counterintuitively, the first pit stop should be exercise. Strengthen the areas around
Our DNA is the blueprint that allows us to develop traits, characteristics, and capabilities. In a single cell, we can develop anywhere from 10,000 to 100,000 lesions that need repair daily. Think of lesions as damage that needs repair. Our ability to repair DNA is vital to life.
Deep within your brain lies a region called the insula. Tucked beneath the cerebral cortex, it plays a quiet but critical role in helping you feel, judge, and decide. The insula doesn’t just respond to pain or pleasure. It processes interoception, your sense of what is happening inside your
Sorry to say, but your brain is ageing. Each passing day adds to the tally. An ageing brain means a decline in capacity. At some point, the decline becomes severe enough to be detrimental to your functioning. So how do you know if your brain is ageing and what can
We live in a world that rewards instant. Fast food. Instant delivery. But nature does not operate like that. Delaying gratification is the ability to resist an immediate reward for a better one in the future. It sounds simple. It is not. Instead, it could be one of the most
Your brain is not just a collection of neurons. It is you. Your memories, your emotions, your ability to decide. Everything comes from the health of this one organ. As you age, your brain slows down. You forget names. You misplace things. You struggle to focus. But it doesn’t
Fatigue is often misunderstood as a lack of food. While caloric deficiency can contribute to tiredness, many individuals experience persistent fatigue despite consuming adequate calories. Can building more mitochondria help reduce fatigue? Energy comes from mitochondria. They are tiny structures inside your cells. Mitochondria use oxygen and food. They turn
Your body is made up of muscle, bone, and fat. For now, let us focus on the fat. There’s fat you can pinch and fat you cannot. The fat you can pinch may be found on your arms or face. The second kind is far more dangerous. It’s
We all have goals. Lose weight. Build a business. Run. Exercise. But many of us fail. Not for a lack of willpower or dedication, but something deeper. Our self-image. Self-image is the mental picture you hold of yourself. It’s how you see yourself. It could be different from what
I recently discovered that my iodine levels were slightly low. Not by much, but tending toward the lower side. Why do you have low iodine and why does it matter? Your body produces hormones for a wide variety of reasons. To regulate metabolism, mood, digestion, et al. Hormones have a
It has been a stressful few weeks for the world. The global world order is changing. Individually, we are specks and may have no role to play in these changes. But who ever you are, you are being affected big or small. Can you disconnect how it affects your mood
You have likely never heard of the term P/O ratio. But it is a key driver of the energy in your body. So what is the P/O ratio and why does it matter? The P/O ratio means the ratio between phosphate-to-oxygen. It measures how efficiently your mitochondria
Imagine a top athlete competing in the Boston marathon. She would go to extraordinary lengths to plan and prepare for the run. Hydration, fuel, sleep, to name a few. So is a personalised program only for the elite few? Our runner is Edna from Kenya. She has a unique muscle
Let us talk about Ayurveda today. No, I didn’t recently get a degree in Ayurveda, but wish to talk about an interesting argument put forward. Should you combine certain food or avoid certain foods? Let us, as always, take the scalpel of science to evidence our opinion. I hear
We are all going to turn 70. Hopefully. If you do, what would it mean to be a healthy 70? I am a huge fan of quantification. It takes away the b.s. from opinion. So here are my quantitative markers for good health at this age. First, the absence
Your body operates in a narrow range across all its parameters. This is necessary to ensure that the underlying processes work. Allow me to explain using body temperature. Thermoregulation is the process by which the human body maintains a stable internal temperature. Typically, this is 37°C, regardless of the
Rapamycin was first used as an anti-fungal drug. Quickly researchers found it had immune suppression properties, and it was began to be used during organ transplants. But we are after its life extending properties as a longevity drug. Longevity experts ask you to take rapamycin preventively. I will spare you
Have you been stressed lately? If you have, have you felt a sinking feeling in your gut? Do you really feel stress in your gut or is it just imagination? Your gut is home to something known as the enteric nervous system. Made from millions of neurons, the gut can
It is just me or has the world been going a little crazy? Economic orders are changing, bringing uncertainty in our lives. As if there wasn’t enough. Amidst all this, it is likely many people may experience an increase in blood pressure. So what is the role of stress
Ask anyone what their goal is, and being happy or happiness will be on the list. But what is happiness? Lacking clarity on what it means, we can spend a lifetime chasing a mirage. Finding it would be well-nigh impossible. So if you truly want happiness, it makes sense to
H. pylori is a tiny bacteria. It lives in your stomach. If you have never heard of it, thank your stars. Shaped like a spiral, if you are at the receiving end of its mercy, you would have hell to pay. So, what does it do? It messes with your
We eat to fuel our body. But what if you wanted to build a strategy to build your heart? How much energy does the heart need, anyway? It may come as a shock, but you consume about six kilograms of adenosine triphosphate or ATP per day. Each cell needs about
As I sit here writing this, it is so tempting to go to an AI tool and have it write the article for me. I am swamped with work and behind on most things. But I am fearful. Of the automation paradox. The automation paradox is the counterintuitive logic that
Every second, your body is doing something extraordinary. It is reading and writing instructions. Instructions that are written in a molecule called nucleic acid. There are two kinds DNA and RNA. Without it, life as we know it would not exist. DNA is your body’s manual. It sits inside