Knowledge & Blog

Tracking apps show what you ate, not what you absorbed. For plant-based iron that gap can be tenfold — and the most repeated fix points at the wrong ingredient.

Sweet potato recipes get searched over 200,000 times a month in the US alone. Here's one that also happens to double as a lower-glycemic, higher-fiber take on a classic Italian comfort food — gnocchi.

Contrary to the popular belief that stress is inherently harmful, the principle of **hormesis** teaches us something surprising: small, controlled doses of a potentially harmful stressor can trigger a positive, adaptive response in the body. Known as a biphasic dose-response relationship, this concept shows that moderate challenges strengthen our resilience. Science journalist Richard Friebe puts it well: "What doesn't kill you makes you tougher." In modern daily life, we often lack the mild stress signals our ancestors were exposed to, such as hunger, cold, or physical exertion. That makes it more important than ever to deliberately build these back into our routines, to "train" our cells' own protective and repair mechanisms.

Spices carry real history and real chemistry. But most health claims about them come from studies using gram doses in capsules – not from a pinch in your curry. Here is what the evidence actually supports.

We re-checked every claim in this article against the primary literature. Here is what the research on longevity, leafy greens, omega-3 and Urolithin A actually supports — and what it does not.