Health & Wellbeing
Hormone Belly: Causes and Ways to Reduce It
What is "hormone belly"? How insulin, cortisol, thyroid, sex hormones and dopamine interact to drive abdominal fat, and the habits that fix it.
Health & Wellbeing
Good health is the sum of your body, mind, and social well-being, and it rarely comes down to one factor. This page contains evidence-based articles on daily habits, lifestyle choices, and preventive strategies that shape your long-term physical health, mental health, quality of life and longevity.
Exercise & Fitness
Does Human Growth Hormone (HGH) Build Muscle?
Human growth hormone (HGH) is naturally produced, but is also taken as a drug. Learn about its role in growth, ageing and athletic performance.
Diet & Nutrition
Yo-yo Dieting & Weight Cycling: Risks & How to Prevent It
Yo-yo dieting (or weight cycling) is not good for your health and can make future weight loss attempts more difficult. Learn how to avoid it.
Health & Wellbeing
Big Belly But Thin Legs: The Candy Apple Phenotype
Why do men develop a firm belly with thin limbs? What are the hidden metabolic risks of this body shape, and how to reverse it?
Diet & Nutrition
Unplugging the Food Matrix for Nutrition and Human Health
Learn why the physical structure of food matters as much as the nutrients in it, and how the food matrix can be used to improve your health.
Health & Wellbeing
Beyond Diet & Exercise: 5 Hidden Keys to Fat Loss
There is more to successful weight loss than diet and exercise. Learn how mindset, environment and personality affect your body weight.
Health & Wellbeing
Beyond Food: How Mediterranean Culture Protects Health
The Mediterranean people are considered some of the healthiest in the world. But it is not just down to the foods that they eat.
Health & Wellbeing
Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat? The Genetics of Obesity
Genes influence how much body fat you have and how easily you lose (or gain) it. However, they don't make you obese or stop you from losing fat.
Health & Wellbeing
How Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) Affects Weight Loss & Health
BMR is the largest source of energy expenditure in your body, and it can change. Learn how to calculate it, and make it work in your favour.
Diet & Nutrition
Why the Mediterranean Diet is the Gold Standard for Health
The Mediterranean diet is nutrient-dense and minimally processed, and its lifestyle is high-quality, which is why it is the healthiest around.
Health & Wellbeing
Visceral Fat & Health: Not All Fat is Created Equal
Visceral fat is stored around organs. Internal fat is metabolically active and releases substances that are bad for your cardiometabolic health.
Diet & Nutrition
7 Core Health Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet
A breakdown of the underlying science behind seven core health and longevity benefits of the Mediterranean diet.