‘They’re all junk, and should be banned’: the trouble with at-home food intolerance tests
My kitchen table is littered with tiny test tubes, envelopes and plastic lancets. At one end of the table, I
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Why does alcohol make us both happy and miserable – and what else does it do to our minds and bodies?
Whatever you think of alcohol, you have to admit that it’s versatile. Ever since the first humans started smashing up
‘Traceability is vital’: labs test thousands of unregulated substances amid peptide craze
People in the UK are sending thousands of unregulated substances that claim to support weight-loss and wellness to laboratories for
My teenage daughter’s OCD keeps getting worse. What can I do? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri
My daughter is 15 and has lived with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) for some time. Her compulsions change – counting,
Medicines watchdog to investigate UK peptide clinics over health claims
The medicines regulator is investigating whether UK clinics are breaking the law by making claims about the benefits of unregulated,
What are peptides, are they safe and is there evidence to back up the hype?
From influencers to athletes, high-profile figures are hailing peptides as the route to wellness, claiming they help with injury repair,
‘I thought, what the hell have I done?’: the people who moved abroad for love – and regretted it
I met my wife in Queensland in 2001. She’s from Bern, but was in Australia to study marine science. She
Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion
Towards the end of 2024, Dennis Biesma decided to check out ChatGPT. The Amsterdam-based IT consultant had just ended a
‘Chinamaxxing’ your health: America’s obsession with Chinese medicine is taking over TikTok
Did you drink ice water today? If you did, that was “not very Chinese of you”, according to Sherry Zhu,
Dissatisfaction with life in UK unchanged since Covid, official data shows
The proportion of people in the UK who feel dissatisfied with life has failed to improve since the pandemic despite