Your body type doesn’t tell you anything meaningful. Here’s why. — In a world where the concept of ‘nutrigenomics,’ or DNA-based diets, is steadily gaining popularity, it’d seem only natural that you should be adopting a training regimen that works best for your genes and, therefore, body type… right? If you look like this, your body type is this, and this…

An objective, evidence-based look at the purported health benefits of essential oils. — Essential oils are incredibly popular right now. By some online accounts, it seems like these oils are miracle workers in a bottle that can fight off all health conditions. But wait, before you shell out $60 for a 10mL bottle of the currently trending essential oil, you might want to…

Every day, we find ourselves bombarded with swarms of health-related information from the media. I mean — take a look at the many health claims making their rounds on your social media feed. Essential oils as a cure-all? Please. Shady health claims on the web Health claims on the internet are frequently overblown, misleading, based on…

A deep-dive into vitiligo — Vitiligo is a multifactorial skin disease in which a faulty immune reaction attacks and kills off pigment cells known as melanocytes. The aftermath of the massacre leaves behind patches of white skin. Even though it has been known about for at least 5000 years, little has been done to understand…

Six evidence-based ways you can increase your testosterone levels — You’re not the man your father was: testosterone levels in men are lower than ever and have been declining for decades. …

Popular as it is, its actual effects on health are lacking — Originating in the Far East around 2,000 years ago, Kombucha — also known as mushroom tea — is a fermented tea from the plant Camellia sinensis: the same plant from which black tea is produced. …

Schedule your workouts according to your menstrual cycle for better strength and muscle gains — Us women face issues that men simply never will. Performance, strength, training motivation and coordination when training vary during our periods because of the (roughly) monthly cycle of hormonal variations that we undergo. On the contrary, a man’s hormones are relatively stable across the month: the implication being they can…