If a supplement nudges fasting glucose and triglycerides, has it helped with metabolic syndrome? That’s the leap worth stopping at. A 2026 …
A small knee osteoarthritis trial has made prebiotic fiber sound much more exciting than fiber usually sounds. In the INSPIRE trial, published in …
Alcohol-free drinks used to feel like a January punishment: soda water, a lime wedge, and the quiet sense that everyone else got the interesting …
A supplement can be popular, plant-based, and still deserve a second look if your liver is already under pressure. That’s the useful takeaway from the …
Stanford Medicine’s supplement myth-busting piece lands on a question a lot of people quietly ask in the vitamin aisle: am I being careful, or …
A saffron sleep headline can go wrong in about three words. The useful finding from the new trial isn’t “saffron fixes sleep.” It doesn’t …
A rhubarb headline can get weird fast. The useful finding here is not that garden rhubarb is a migraine therapy. The study doesn’t show that. …
A kefir-and-fiber supplement has picked up a very tempting headline: it “beat” omega-3 for inflammation. That’s partly true, but …
Guava juice is having a bit of a moment because of iron. That sounds simple enough: guava is rich in vitamin C, vitamin C helps with plant-based iron …
You buy the herb in one aisle and pick up the prescription in another. Different bottle, different mood, different set of assumptions. But your body …
Herbal supplements for anxiety can sound reassuring because the words feel soft: chamomile, lavender, lemon balm, passionflower. That softness is part …
If you’ve seen ginger, turmeric, cinnamon, or berberine talked about as “blood sugar herbs,” the short version is this: some signals …
A supplement bottle doesn’t know what’s in your medicine cabinet. That’s the part people miss. Someone adds a “natural” sleep aid, …
A new 2025 scoping review gives the “natural remedies for depression” aisle a much-needed reality check. Researchers mapped 209 randomized clinical …
Pre-workout supplements are sold as the thing that helps you train harder. Fair enough. If you’re dragging after school, after work, or after a …
Berberine has become one of those supplements people talk about with slightly too much confidence. You’ll see it framed as “natural metformin,” a …
Depression is not the place for casual “try this instead” advice. If symptoms are severe, getting worse, linked to mania or psychosis, happening after …
A new lab study found something attention-grabbing: when capsaicin was paired with menthol, and when capsaicin was paired with 1,8-cineole, …
Every few months, wellness social media decides we’re all doing hydration wrong. You’ve seen the videos: someone squeezes a lemon into a …
Search “detox” on any wellness platform and you’ll find hundreds of products, programs, and protocols — juice fasts, tea cleanses, …
If you’ve ever twisted a bottle of turmeric capsules or ashwagandha gummies around to squint at the fine print, you’ve seen it — that …
A 2024 survey study published in JAMA Network Open estimated that roughly 15.6 million U.S. adults — about 4.7% of the population — had used at least …
One hundred and nineteen people got sick. Thirty-two of them ended up in the hospital. The culprit wasn’t a restaurant or a packaged salad kit — …
Nearly 7 in 10 people on prescription medications don’t mention their supplements to their primary care doctor. That number — roughly 70%, from …