Vitamin D in Europe: why your levels fall between October and April
Above about 40 degrees north, the winter sun is too low for your skin to make any vitamin D at all. That covers most of Europe, for half the year.
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Brain health: four things that decide how sharp you stay
Your brain is two per cent of your body weight and burns twenty per cent of your energy. Four inputs decide how well it holds up — and none of them is complicated.
Creatine is not just for the gym: why it belongs in a longevity stack
Forty years of creatine research was aimed at athletes. The reasons people take it now — muscle retention, brain energy, ageing well — have little to do with lifting heavier.
How to take a multivitamin: timing, form and the mistakes that waste it
A multivitamin is the cheapest insurance against the gaps in a normal diet — but only if you take it with the right meal and read the right part of the label.
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Articles on health and healthspan — vitamin D, fibre, sleep, the brain — written in plain language with the studies linked.