Body and mind: mental health, stress, ADHD and neurodivergence, sleep, medicine and everyday psychology.
#6359: When Eating Triggers Breathlessness Without Reflux
In studies of post-meal distension, abdominal gas volume stayed within 300 millilitres of baseline despite visible changes in waistline girth.
#6339: What Daylight Saving Actually Does to Health
A pooled analysis found about a four percent relative increase in acute heart attacks following the spring clock transition.
#6328: Why Inhalers Never Combined Allergy Drugs
Fluticasone and salmeterol accounted for over ten million American prescriptions in 2023, decades after both ingredients first appeared.
#6327: Why Common Colds Cause Asthma Flare-Ups
In asthmatic airways, rhinovirus can trigger excessive RIG-I inflammasome activation while impairing antiviral interferon signaling.
#6321: How Interpreters Speak While Listening
Eye-tracking studies show professional interpreters look at likely items on a screen before a speaker even utters the predictable word.
#6280: Using Tactical Triage to Handle Daily Overwhelm
Military protocols prioritize stopping severe bleeding under fire before managing airways, showing how immediate threats dictate sequencing.
#6269: How People Reach Labour Unaware They Are Pregnant
A year-long Berlin study found that one in 475 pregnancies went unrecognised beyond twenty weeks, with unawareness lasting until labour in 1 in 2,455.
#6259: What Facial Exercises Actually Change
In a 2018 JAMA Dermatology trial, blinded doctors estimated facial exercise participants looked nearly three years younger.
#6258: How Loop Filters Noise for Focus and Conversation
Loop Engage 2 carries an SNR of 16 decibels but an NRR of just 8 decibels, showing how regional testing standards diverge.
#6233: Fibromyalgia's 26 Genetic Clues
A landmark study found 26 genetic regions linked to fibromyalgia — but the drugs are still catching up.
#6232: Daycare Germs: What Immunity Actually Means
Cold after cold, two hospital visits, and the phrase "building immunity." What actually changes in a child's immune system — and is it shared?
#6231: Why a Cold Makes Your Whole Body Ache
A sore throat shouldn't hurt your calves. Here's how one localized infection recruits your entire body into feeling terrible.
#6155: Acupuncture, Adenosine, and the Sham Needle Problem
Acupuncture beats sham by about a fifth of a standard deviation. So what is the sham actually subtracting?
#6122: Explaining Misophonia to the People You Love
18.4% of adults meet the threshold for misophonia. Only 13.6% have ever heard the word. Here's how to bridge that gap.
#6121: Hearing Speech in Noise: What Actually Works
Over-the-counter hearing aids, AirPods Conversation Boost, and neural speech separation — what works when your audiogram is normal but the café isn't.
#6120: What Actually Helps When Sound Is Too Much
Misophonia and hyperacusis treatments are thin but not empty — and the ADHD sound-sensitivity gap is more interesting than it looks.
#6118: What NRR Actually Means for Your Ears
That 34 dB rating on the box? Real-world protection is closer to 13. Here's how to actually pick hearing protection.
#6116: Why Noise Makes You Snap at Your Kid
The drill stops, but the anger doesn't. What Glass and Singer found about noise, control, and the tantrum two hours later.
#6079: Why Cupping Shows Up in Five Ancient Traditions
From Phelps's purple shoulders to Yiddish "bankes" — why the same suction technique was reinvented by five medical traditions.
#6061: MARPE, Tirzepatide, and AI on CBCT: Sleep Apnea's New Tools
MARPE's bone share, the first real MARPE sleep apnea trial, and what tirzepatide did to oral appliances — plus AI reading sutures on CBCT.