Baking Soda
Sodium Bicarbonate: What Baking Soda Actually Is, and What It Actually Does
One compound, one mechanism, and a surprisingly short list of things it genuinely does. Start here before the internet gets to you.
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Baking Soda
Baking Soda and Sport: The One Use With Serious Trials Behind It
Sodium bicarbonate is on sports institutes' shortlist of supplements that actually work. It is also the one most likely to ruin your session.
Baking Soda
Baking Soda and Your Teeth: What the Dental Evidence Shows
Low abrasivity, decent stain removal, and one important thing it does not replace.
Baking Soda
Heartburn and Baking Soda: An Old Remedy With a Real Sodium Problem
It works, it is in the pharmacopoeia, and it is also the use most likely to send someone to hospital. Both things are true.
Baking Soda
Baking Soda Around the House: Twelve Jobs It Does Well, Four It Doesn't, and the Claims to Ignore
The cheapest genuinely useful thing in the cupboard — and the most over-credited. Here is the line between them.
Sleep
What the Evidence Actually Says About Magnesium and Sleep
Magnesium is the internet's favourite sleep mineral. The research is more modest — and more useful — than the headlines suggest.
Movement
The Ten-Minute Walk After Dinner
One of the few habits where the research, the effort required and the payoff all line up neatly.
Nutrition
Protein at Breakfast: A Small Change With Steady Returns
Not because mornings are metabolically magic — because of what a low-protein breakfast does to the rest of your day.
Supplements
How to Read a Supplement Label Without Getting Fooled
Proprietary blends, fairy dust doses, and the difference between a claim that is regulated and one that is merely printed.
Nutrition
Eight Glasses a Day, and Other Hydration Myths
Where the famous number came from, why thirst is better than arithmetic, and the one group that genuinely should count.
Mind
The Five-Minute Reset: Breathing Practices With Real Evidence
Slow breathing is not mysticism. It is a lever on the autonomic nervous system that you can pull at your desk.