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Traditions
Wellness marketing invokes ancient authority constantly, and almost nobody checks it. We opened the primary texts — Culpeper's herbal of 1653, the Sushruta Samhita, Li Shizhen's Bencao Gangmu, the Dongui Bogam and the Tibetan canon — and looked up five of those claims.
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Nutrition & Food
Your cells listen to how much you sleep before they decide how well to handle sugar the next day.
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Surroundings & Rhythm
Long before anyone had a name for it, healers noticed that when you sleep matters as much as how long you sleep. Science is finally catching up.
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Movement & Body
An old European proverb and a stack of modern trials agree on something surprisingly specific: when you walk matters almost as much as whether you walk at all.
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Herbs & Plants
A kitchen spice with a centuries-old reputation for warming the gut is now being tested for something more specific: keeping blood sugar in check.
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Nutrition & Food
Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to everything from depression to dizziness — but the research is more nuanced than the headlines suggest.
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