Health blog

“Normal” means you fall inside a statistical range. It does not mean the number is right for you.

Sleep hygiene is not the treatment for insomnia. The thing that works is CBT-I — and most people are never offered it.

The evidence is more reassuring than most people expect — with three specific exceptions worth knowing about.

Genuine deficiency is uncommon in healthy people — but there are specific groups where it matters, and drugs that cause it.

Cortisol is real; adrenal fatigue is not. What genuinely lowers stress hormones, and what is being sold to you.

Injections are marketed hard and are rarely necessary. Oral vitamin D works for almost everyone, and costs a fraction.

Most adults need more than the official minimum — and if you are over 60 or on a weight-loss injection, considerably more.

The most important thing is usually said with a hand on the door. Here is how to avoid that.

Stopping some medicines abruptly is more dangerous than taking them. Which ones, and what to do instead.

Both are real, and they overlap. But they respond to completely different things.

Most home readings are taken wrongly. Cuff size alone can shift a number enough to change a diagnosis.

Decades of missed diagnoses, mostly in women. What it actually looks like at 40, and how assessment works.

"Your bloods are normal" often means nobody measured the one that actually matters.