Stories
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The Elephant In The Room
What’s Coming Next I wrote an article in 2021 arguing that COVID was not quite the creature we were being told it was, and that…
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Build Your Own Health Toolkit Before You Need It
There was a time when most of us assumed that if something went wrong with our health, we simply went to the doctor. You made…
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For How Long Have Your Shoes Been Causing Your Headaches?
We tend to think of our feet as two rather uninteresting things at the bottom of our legs. They get shoved into shoes in the…
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What, Exactly, Are We Eating?
This is longer than my usual offerings. But stick with it. I promise you’ll finish it feeling that the time was well spent – and…
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Your Voice May Know More About You Than You Think
The body is an extraordinary little recycling plant. Sweat, breath, hair, tears, fingernails, saliva, blood, urine, faeces, breast milk, semen, earwax, sebum (from skin glands)…
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How Much Sugar Is Hiding In Your Food?
We like to think we’ve become terribly sensible about sugar. We’ve stopped putting two teaspoons in our tea. We’ve swapped the biscuits for something that…
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Miswak Brushes: Why Ancient Teeth Were Healthier Than Ours
Since releasing the article on miswak brushes last week, I’ve received several questions about their function. I received this reply from the company’s CEO: 1.…
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A Brush with the Ancient World
When the manufacturer of the Blotting Brushes we’d made available for over 10 years stopped production during the long, strange paralysis of COVID, we were…
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When the Earth Moves: What Happens AFTER the Earthquake
I lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, for 5 years, during which I’d occasionally feel the gentle rhythm of the earth rumbling beneath me. Scientists recorded two…