The Sugar Detox and the Withdrawal Story It Borrows
The language of addiction has been imported wholesale into sugar reduction. Some of what happens is real, and the framing around it…
Sneha Rajagopal
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Sneha writes about wellness devices and the mechanisms they claim.
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Food Combining and the Digestive System That Ignores It
The rule says never eat protein and starch together because the stomach cannot manage both. The pancreas releases its full enzyme…
Raw Food and the Enzymes That Cooking Is Blamed For
The raw food argument rests on plant enzymes surviving your stomach to do work inside you. Cooking also makes several nutrients…
Why Every Wellness Gadget Claims to Work on Frequencies
Frequency is a precise word with a unit attached. Wellness marketing uses it as an atmosphere, and the missing numbers are the…
Red Light Therapy: Where the Evidence Is and Where It Runs Out
This is not a device sold on a mechanism that does not exist, which makes it more interesting than most. The problem is dose…
Negative Ion Generators and the Ozone They Can Produce
These devices are sold for mood and clean air, and some of them generate a respiratory irritant as a by-product. That is a rare…
Cupping, Bruises and the Mechanism That Was Never Shown
The circular marks are genuine and easy to explain. The explanation offered for them describes something leaving the body that…
Starvation Mode Is Real, Small, and Not What You Were Told
Metabolism does adapt downwards when you eat less, which the fitness internet exaggerates and the diet industry denies. The…
Compression Boots and the Feeling of Being Recovered
Inflatable sleeves feel wonderful and reliably reduce how sore people say they are. Whether they change what actually determines…
Salt Lamps, the Air Around Them and the Puddle Underneath
A block of rock salt with a bulb inside is warm, orange and pleasant. The claim that it changes your air runs into the fact that…
Kinesiology Tape and the Colour That Does Nothing
The tape is elastic, sticky and available in bright colours, and none of those properties supports the mechanism claimed for it.…