The Hidden Health Risks of Food Labels and Wraps. Our societies are getting fatter. Some people see this adiposity as a health issue, some as a cosmetic one. But truth be told, our metabolic processes are more mysterious than we realise. Last year, the prestigious Nature Journal reported that plastic is still one of the […]
Skin (Latin: Cutis) is our largest organ and therefore is also naturally the source of most diseases. Skin diseases can be complex to diagnose. They can be manifestations of underlying illness, or something strange deforming skin itself. Humans know what they want or don’t want to happen on their skin. Skin itself couldn’t care less. […]
Can exercise help to counteract the effects of poor sleep? A few years ago, I was in Spain in the province of Toledo. I visited the Museo-Casa de Dulcinea, the house of Doña Ana Martínez Zarco de Morales, who is supposed to be the person who was fictionalised by Miguel Cervantes as Don Quixote’s love […]
The link between prostate cancer and sexual activity. In ‘My doc says men need sex 27 times a month, but who gets that?’, the famous Canadian rocker—known for lyrics such as “I want to be your underwear”—alludes to the link between a man’s sexual health and prostate cancer. In 1853, J. Adams, a surgeon at […]