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Touch Your Food: The Surprising Link Between Fingers, Digestion, and Fullness

Our hands are packed with tiny nerve endings that help the brain identify texture, temperature and moisture. When those nerves interact with food, signals travel up to the brain and help prime the digestive system. The body starts preparing before the first bite.

David Richards

Mar 18, 2026

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23 min read

The Small Bursts That Change Everything

Every so often, a health idea slips into the conversation that feels almost too simple. The kind of thing you’d expect your grandmother to mention while climbing the stairs faster than you. And yet, when researchers finally study it, the data lands with surprising force. Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity—VILPA for short—is one of those ideas.

Jacob Rivera

When Play Becomes Healing: Understanding Play Therapy for Children

Mar 11, 2026

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23 min read

When Play Becomes Healing: Understanding Play Therapy for Children

When our children are hurting or struggling with their emotions, we often say something along the lines of "use your words.". However, what happens when the feelings are too complex, frightening, or deeply buried for them to articulate?

Annette Trépanier

Listen Up: This Article Just Might Save You from Dementia

Mar 4, 2026

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19 min read

Listen Up: This Article Just Might Save You from Dementia

A large study from Johns Hopkins found that older adults with moderate to severe hearing loss had a 61% higher prevalence of dementia.

David Richards

Feb 25, 2026

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26 min read

When Pressure Makes Us Younger

Nevertheless, pressure does seem to nudge the body into repair mode. It encourages old cells to step aside and lets newer ones take the lead. It may help with healing. It might support blood flow. It might even affect the brain in ways we’re still learning to measure. Some people use HBOT for brain injuries or memory issues. The early signs are promising but, again, early.

Jacob Rivera

The Viral Echo: Could Ancient Infections Still Shape How Our Brains Break Down?

Feb 18, 2026

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20 min read

The Viral Echo: Could Ancient Infections Still Shape How Our Brains Break Down?

But myelin’s origins are mysterious. Some evolutionary biologists believe viruses played a part in its creation, long before humans ever appeared. The evidence sits in our DNA. Roughly ten percent of the human genome is made up of the remains of ancient viruses, known as endogenous retroviruses, or HERVs.

Jacob Rivera

Feb 11, 2026

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29 min read

Healing Your Inner Child

The phrase “inner child” might sound like pop psychology—but the idea behind it is simple and real. It points to the emotional parts of you that took shape long before you had the words to explain them and can remain stored, unresolved, within you. Not just in your thoughts, but in your body too.

Annette Trépanier

Quantum Vision: How Your Eyes Detect the Smallest Particles of Light

Feb 4, 2026

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18 min read

Quantum Vision: How Your Eyes Detect the Smallest Particles of Light

A photon is unbelievably small. Yet your eyes, somehow, are attuned to it. Scientists call this quantum biology, the study of how living systems exploit the strange, almost unbelievable rules of quantum physics.

Jacob Rivera

Colon Cancer on the Rise: The Hidden Crisis in Young Adults

Jan 28, 2026

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25 min read

Colon Cancer on the Rise: The Hidden Crisis in Young Adults

There are milestones to ageing. One of those, for me, was after turning 50, when my first colorectal cancer kit arrived at my house. At the time fifty seemed like an arbitrary age, and I was correct, but for all the wrong reasons.

David Richards

Plant Wisdom for Women: Why Herbalism Feels Built for Our Bodies

Jan 21, 2026

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28 min read

Plant Wisdom for Women: Why Herbalism Feels Built for Our Bodies

For decades, most drug research studies were conducted almost entirely on men. Women were thought to be “too complicated” because of hormonal cycles. Researchers worried these cycles would make it harder to interpret results. To avoid this potential muddying of results, the solution was to exclude women from clinical trials.

Annette Trépanier

When a Parasite Makes You Pretty: The Strange Story of Toxoplasma gondii Part 2

Jan 14, 2026

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28 min read

When a Parasite Makes You Pretty: The Strange Story of Toxoplasma gondii Part 2

What if I told you a parasite might make you more attractive? Something that quietly takes up residence inside your body and makes people find you better looking. It sounds like the setup to a science-fiction movie. Yet, it is not. While speculative, the claim is not baseless.

Jacob Rivera

The parasite that might be living quietly in your brain: The Strange Story of Toxoplasma gondii Part 1

Jan 7, 2026

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22 min read

The parasite that might be living quietly in your brain: The Strange Story of Toxoplasma gondii Part 1

The parasite does not need to kill the mouse. It needs the mouse to be eaten. Scientists think the organism alters brain chemistry to create that nudge—and as unsettling as it sounds, humans may not be entirely exempt from its influence.

Jacob Rivera

Touch Your Food: The Surprising Link Between Fingers, Digestion, and Fullness

The Small Bursts That Change Everything

When Play Becomes Healing: Understanding Play Therapy for Children

Listen Up: This Article Just Might Save You from Dementia

When Pressure Makes Us Younger

The Viral Echo: Could Ancient Infections Still Shape How Our Brains Break Down?

Healing Your Inner Child

Quantum Vision: How Your Eyes Detect the Smallest Particles of Light

Colon Cancer on the Rise: The Hidden Crisis in Young Adults

Plant Wisdom for Women: Why Herbalism Feels Built for Our Bodies

When a Parasite Makes You Pretty: The Strange Story of Toxoplasma gondii Part 2

The parasite that might be living quietly in your brain: The Strange Story of Toxoplasma gondii Part 1

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