TL;DR: A new study mapped 31 pesticides against Peru's cancer registry, and the geography lined up — with liver tissue pointing at a non-genotoxic mechanism, not direct DNA damage. Photo: Shelley Pauls / Unsplash Key takeaways: 31 pesticides mapped against Peru's cancer registry — the geographic overlap is striking. Hotspot livers showed a gene-expression signature pointing at non-genotoxic disruption. Single-chemical studies miss what mixed real-world exposure looks like. Pr

TL;DR: A new observational study suggests late-night eating only damages gut function when stacked on top of chronic stress. Eating timing alone isn't doing the harm. KEY TAKEAWAYS: High stress PLUS late-night eating: abnormal bowel habits 39.3% vs. 23.2% baseline Late night eating alone, without high stress, wasn't linked to worse gut function The compounding stressors framework explains gut symptoms that "just don't eat late" misses Sleep, work, mood, or environment: whic

A new paper found that Methanobrevibacter smithii, a common gut archaeon, shows up more often in people with colorectal cancer and appears to cooperate metabolically with cancer-linked bacteria — but the evidence-supported levers for lowering risk are still fiber, plant diversity, and age-appropriate screening.

If you have ever been told you have polycystic ovary syndrome, there is a decent chance you walked out of that appointment confused. Maybe an ultrasound was normal. Maybe there were no actual cysts. Maybe you were told you had PCOS because of irregular cycles and acne and weight that wouldn't budge, and you spent the next decade trying to find a clinician who understood why the name and the lived experience didn't line up. A May 2026 paper in The Lancet finally calls the ques

Have you spent any time in the longevity corner of the internet? You've heard about rapamycin. Originally an immunosuppressant given to organ transplant patients, this drug has become the darling of the geroscience world because it extends lifespan in mice, slows certain markers of cellular aging in lab studies, and gets a lot of biohacker airtime as a potential anti-aging tool in humans. A new randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, RAPA-EX-01, just complicated t

A patient called the office last winter to ask whether the weight-loss injection she was buying online was the same as the one her cousin was getting through her insurance. The price was a third of what her cousin was paying. The vials looked similar. The website mentioned a "compounding pharmacy partner." She wanted to know if she should be worried. The answer, in a phrase, is yes. A new study presented this April at the Obesity Medicine Association 2026 meeting put hard num

There's a particular moment most of us have witnessed in someone we love. A grandparent pushing off the arms of a chair to stand. The pause. The slight wobble. The small, half-conscious calculation of whether to try a second time or sit back down. That moment is what researchers call "lower-limb power," and when it slips, fall risk rises. A six-month randomised controlled trial out of Deakin University in Australia, published in February 2026 in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarco

A study getting headlines this month showed that a seed extract from the moringa tree can remove microplastics from drinking water, in some conditions as effectively as the chemical coagulants currently used in water treatment plants. The headline is fun. The deeper story is more important. Microplastics are a real and growing exposure, and personal water filtration is one piece of a much larger conversation about the chemicals we're all swimming in. What the research found A

A small randomized trial out of Turkey is making the rounds for showing that inhaled thyme essential oil eased a long list of COVID-19 symptoms in hospitalized patients. The naturopathic instinct on a story like this is to nod and say "yes, of course, plants have been in the lungs game for centuries." The scientifically rigorous instinct is to slow down, look at the trial design, and ask what the data actually support. Both can be true. Let's hold both. What the research foun

Have you (or someone close to you) been on a GLP-1? You already know the nausea conversation. It's the most common side effect, the most common reason people stop the medication, and the thing that makes the first few weeks of dosing harder than the medication itself. A new pilot trial reported by Medscape in April 2026 asked whether something as simple as a ginger supplement could take the edge off. The signal is small, the trial is small, the data is preliminary in every wa

Have you spent any amount of time in clinic or online with people managing bloating? You know the look. They are tired. They have tried elimination diets, probiotics, three different antacids, two different practitioners, and they still feel pregnant by 3pm. Bloating is one of the most common gastrointestinal symptoms, one of the most disruptive to daily life, and one of the hardest to treat with conventional pharmacology. A new feasibility study out of Mayo Clinic suggests a

Low back pain is the leading cause of disability on the planet. About one in four adults are living with it right now. The frustrating part is how often imaging fails to explain it. People get an MRI, the radiology report comes back largely unremarkable, and they're sent home with a stretching pamphlet and the lingering sense that their pain is somehow not real. A growing body of research is offering a different story. Some of that pain may be coming from a place no one thoug

Curcumin, the active pigment in turmeric, has been kicking around the joint pain literature for over a decade. Most of the trials so far have used oral capsules. Now we have a randomized trial showing that a topical curcumin gel, applied directly to the knee, can take the edge off osteoarthritis pain. No miracle, just a useful piece of news. What the research found The trial was published in April 2026 in Frontiers in Pain Research. Adrian Lopresti, Benny Antony, and Stephen

If you've ever lost twenty minutes in the bathroom mirror picking at a single bump on your face, and then felt that strange mix of relief and shame afterward, you're not alone. Excoriation disorder, the medical name for compulsive skin picking, sits in a category of conditions that almost no one talks about. It's underdiagnosed and undertreated. And there's a reasonably-priced amino acid supplement with meaningful evidence behind it. What the research found The trial getting

Almost everyone I know has someone in their life on a GLP-1. The conversation has been about weight, weight, weight. So a new piece of research that pulls the focus back to what's actually happening inside the body feels overdue, and worth slowing down for. What the research found A team at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute published a paper in Cell Metabolism in April 2026 with a clear message. The work was led by Dr. Daniel Drucker and postdoctoral fellow Dr.

The "delete the app" energy is everywhere right now. It's a wellness aspiration, a TikTok aesthetic, and, for a lot of patients I see, a private fantasy that lives somewhere between "I should drink more water" and "I should move to a cabin." The pull is genuine. The data on whether it actually helps is more mixed than the discourse suggests. What the research actually found A team led by Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow at Stanford ran the largest deactivation experiment of

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