Health

For years, supplement companies built products people had to remember to take. The next generation is increasingly designing products people can build a routine around.

Smartwatches are very good at making exercise feel measurable. You finish a workout, look down, and see distance, heart rate, time, steps, and one especially satisfying number: calories burned. The problem is that the calorie number may be much less precise than it looks.

The word 'Peptides' is beginning to function almost like “supplements”—a broad, reassuring category that can make very different substances sound interchangeable.

The goal is not to optimize every bite. It is to build an eating routine that protects your energy, attention, and sleep without turning food into another job.

It takes less than 30 seconds to measure with a hand dynamometer, yet numerous large-scale studies have found that lower grip strength is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, disability, hospitalization, and earlier mortality.

The phone in your hand at midnight may be doing more than delaying bedtime. It can reduce the quality of the hours that follow and make the next morning feel heavier than it should.

Open almost any social media app and you'll find promises of higher energy, increased muscle, sharper focus, and improved performance—all from a single supplement. But according to sports dietitian Dana Angelo White, most over-the-counter "testosterone boosters" fail to deliver on those claims.