Walk into any pharmacy or health food store and the supplement aisle will present you with hundreds of products making claims that range from plausible to genuinely fantastical. Fat burners. Testosterone boosters. Brain enhancers. Immune system supporters. Most of them share two things in common: they are expensive, and the evidence for what they claim to do is thin to … [Read more...] about The Supplements That Are Actually Worth Taking
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What GLP-1s Actually Are and How They Work
If you have paid any attention to health news in the last two years, you have encountered GLP-1s. Ozempic. Wegovy. Mounjaro. Zepbound. The drugs have been on magazine covers and in congressional hearings and on social media in a volume that makes them difficult to think about clearly. There is the breathless enthusiasm from people who have lost significant weight. There is the … [Read more...] about What GLP-1s Actually Are and How They Work
The Beginner’s Guide to Running From Someone Who Hated It
The first time most people try running as adults, it goes roughly like this. They head out with good intentions, run hard for about four minutes, feel their lungs burning and their legs complaining, slow to a walk, feel embarrassed, and decide somewhere in the back of their mind that they are simply not a running person. The shoes go back in the closet. The gym membership goes … [Read more...] about The Beginner’s Guide to Running From Someone Who Hated It
The Case for Keeping a Notebook in 2026
Somewhere on your phone right now there is a note you wrote to yourself six months ago that you have not looked at since. There is probably a voice memo too, from a walk where you had a thought that felt important. A half-finished document in Google Docs. A pinned message in a group chat that was supposed to remind you of something. A starred email. All of these systems … [Read more...] about The Case for Keeping a Notebook in 2026
The Sunday Reset: How to Actually Recover from a Draining Week
There's a particular kind of exhaustion that arrives on Sunday afternoon. The week is behind you, but Monday is already looming. You meant to rest, but somehow the days slipped away and you're heading into a new week feeling just as depleted as you left the last one. This is where the idea of a Sunday reset comes in — and no, we're not talking about a color-coded … [Read more...] about The Sunday Reset: How to Actually Recover from a Draining Week