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Traditions

Did Traditional Medicine Really Say That? We Opened the Books

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

Calcium Power: What the Science Actually Says About the Mineral We Think We Understand

We treat calcium like a settled question — but the research reveals a mineral that's far more interesting, and more complicated, than the supplement aisle lets on.

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Nutrition & Food

The Vitamin Your Body Makes From Sunlight — and Why So Many of Us Are Running Low

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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Did Traditional Medicine Really Say That? We Opened the Books

Calcium Power: What the Science Actually Says About the Mineral We Think We Understand

The Vitamin Your Body Makes From Sunlight — and Why So Many of Us Are Running Low