Perimenopause: the first signs, and when they usually start
Perimenopause usually begins in the early to mid forties and runs for about four years, and the first signs are not hot flushes. They are cycle length variability, broken sleep...
Marine collagen: the types, the sources and the difference that matters
Most marine collagen is type I from fish skin, because that is the cheap and abundant raw material. Type II comes from cartilage and is a different material entirely. What...
What is collagen good for, and what happens when it declines
Collagen is a structural protein, not a skin ingredient, and almost everything interesting about it happens before you swallow any. What it is made of, where the body puts it,...
The scalp: the living part of the hair system
The hair shaft is dead keratin. The scalp is living skin with 400 to 900 sebaceous glands per square centimetre, its own microbiome and a follicle that is metabolically expensive...
Anti-inflammatory diet: what the research supports and what it does not
Inflammation has become a marketing word, which is a shame, because the science behind it is real. What CRP and IL-6 measure, what the Mediterranean diet trials found, and which...
