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Associative memory and neuroplasticity: how the brain learns
My memory feels less like a library than a map. I retrieve an idea by starting from a nearby word until I find the right path.
7 min
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Air purifier: real health benefits?
My purifier is advertised for 130 m². In a 20 m² room, it still does not clean the air instantly. The figure is not necessarily false. It hides the number of air changes.
8 min
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Sleep debt: why you cannot feel it, and how to measure it
I go to bed late by choice and I do not feel tired. The laboratory says that is exactly what people feel while their alertness collapses.
9 min
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HRV: why your number is not comparable with anyone else's
I will not give my HRV number. Not out of modesty: because compared with yours, it means nothing. Compared with mine from yesterday, it says a lot.
8 min
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Taurine and ageing: the biomarker that collapsed in two years
A level that drops with age, mice that live longer, a headline in Science. Two years later, the level does not drop. The story of a biomarker, and of what is left when it falls.
7 min
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How to sleep better: light, meals and regularity
Sleep regularity predicts mortality better than sleep duration. Which moves the most repeated piece of advice of them all.
10 min
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Biological age: what the calculation actually measures
Two methods go by the name biological age. The expensive one is not the more predictive, and the founding study says so.
5 min
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The best validated health score does not use your watch
A validated holistic health score already exists. It contains no HRV, no recovery score, no sleep stages. And it cuts stroke risk by two thirds.
5 min