Today’s hook Have you ever felt a physical tightness in your chest when you see someone get hurt? Or found it hard to watch painful scenes in movies—or even in surgery videos? Today’s science is saying: that’s not “being dramatic.” It’s empathic pain—and it has its...

Today’s hook What if I told you that beyond antioxidants, exercise, and sleep, there’s a set of tiny molecules—produced by your own body, influenced by diet, and even shaped by the gut microbiota—that’s increasingly being framed as a next-generation strategy for neuroprotection and anti-aging? Today’s key...

Today’s hook When you think about an anxiety disorder, what’s the first image that comes to mind—emotional weakness, lack of control, “it’s all in your head”? The core message of the classic paper “The Neurobiology of Anxiety Disorders: Brain Imaging, Genetics, and Psychoneuroendocrinology” is the opposite:...

Today’s hook Who hasn’t woken up after a “too much” night thinking, “I’m never drinking again.”But the question I want to plant in your mind today is a different one: Is a hangover just a moral punishment… or a pretty clear biological signal that your body...

Today’s hook If someone shows up to the ER saying, “I drank some weird, cheap alcohol—questionable source,” and a few hours later starts seeing everything blurry and hyperventilating… would methanol jump to the top of your differential? Today’s key reference is the “Methanol Toxicity” chapter from...

Today’s hook If I told you that the way a baby is fed in the first year of life can show up in their lab results at age 30 or 40, would that sound exaggerated? The paper guiding today’s column—“Infant nutrition and lifelong health: current perspectives...

Today’s hook Have you ever imagined testing—on a computer, with atomic-level detail—how a brand-new drug candidate fits into its target protein, DNA, RNA, ions, and even chemical modifications… all at once, before you synthesize a single molecule in the lab? Today’s big science headline is the...

Today’s hook Have you ever performed or followed a bone marrow transplant and felt that quiet, underlying fear of transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA)? That rare, severe complication—kidneys failing, hemolytic anemia, platelets crashing… and no approved therapy, just “patchwork” off-label options? Today’s news changes that landscape. On...

Today’s hook If I got one real for every time I hear “take omega-3, it’s good for your heart,” I’d already be funding my own clinical trial. The real question is: does that still hold up with the level of evidence we have today? Or are...

Today’s hook If I ask you right now:“What exactly is Coenzyme Q10 for?” A lot of people answer with a handful of buzzwords: energy, heart, performance, anti-aging. The real challenge is separating what’s backed by science from what’s mostly supplement-label marketing. Today, I’m starting from a...