New in Diabetologia (July 2026): a small randomized crossover trial found mild cold that made people shiver lowered 24-hour glucose in adults with type 2 diabetes. The colder condition didn't. (1/5)

Grip strength predicted 8-year mortality better than self-reported exercise. (1/6)

New in BMJ Medicine: people who did the widest variety of physical activities had a 19% lower risk of death from any cause — after adjusting for how much total exercise they did. (1/6)

A cardiac surgeon stood over thousands of open chests and reached a conclusion that flipped his entire career: most of the patients on his table did not need to be there. (1/7)

New in Stroke: regular flossing was associated with a 23% lower risk of ischemic stroke. (1/7)

Is that daily probiotic capsule actually doing anything for your gut? (1/7)

A shingles shot cut major cardiac events 46%. Not a statin. Not a stent. A vaccine. New data from the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session (ACC.26) analyzed 246,822 U.S. adults over 50 with atherosclerotic heart disease. Half had received Shingrix or Zostavax. (1/6)

New in Translational Psychiatry: it may not be how much you move, but whether you ever move for long enough at a stretch. (1/10)

New in Translational Psychiatry: it may not be how much you move, but whether you ever move for long enough at a stretch. (1/10)

Our new longevity movie just premiered on Apple TV. It's called Forever Young. I had the privilege of joining a remarkable group of scientists, physicians, and patients to explore one of the most profound questions in medicine: can we slow, stop, or even reverse aging? (1/4)

The lie I taught in medical school: calories are calories, and when you eat them doesn't matter. New pilot data says otherwise. (1/7)

The lie I taught in medical school: exercise helps the brain mainly through better blood flow and mood. That framing is now looking incomplete. (1/6)

I've spent decades trying to understand why some patients age gracefully into their 90s and 100s while others accumulate disease in their 60s. A new study in GeroScience gives us a chemical fingerprint. (1/6)

New in Free Radical Biology and Medicine: the bacteria on your tongue may be doing more for your blood pressure than any pill. (1/9)

New in JAMA Network Open: a machine-learning model that reads your EEG while you sleep can estimate your "brain age" -- and every 10 years your brain looks older than you are, dementia risk jumps by nearly 40%. (1/6)

New in BMC Public Health: your bedtime may be set by what you do at breakfast, not at night. (1/8)

New in BMC Public Health: your bedtime may be set by what you do at breakfast, not at night. (1/8)

If you thought caffeine was doing the heavy lifting in your morning cup, the mechanistic data disagrees. (1/8)

A 3-year gap in physiological age between adults with high vs. low cultural engagement — museums, cinema, theater. That is the headline finding of a longitudinal analysis in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. (1/6)

New this week in The Lancet Oncology: a phase 3 trial of cretostimogene grenadenorepvec — an oncolytic immunotherapy dripped into the bladder — in 112 patients with high-risk, BCG-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, the population that usually faces removal of the entire (1/9)

New in Diabetes Care: the ORDER you eat your food may control your blood sugar almost as much as WHAT you eat. In a randomized crossover trial (Diabetes Care, 2025), 20 adults with type 2 diabetes wore continuous glucose monitors and ate the same meals in two sequences — carbs first vs. (1/7)

New in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: the first systematic review and meta-analysis of anthocyanins in HEALTHY adults — 18 prospective cohorts and 65 RCTs. (1/8)

What Do People Who Live to 100 Have in Their Blood That You Don't? (1/6)

When you sleep may matter more than how long. 😴 "Get your eight hours" may be the wrong target. When scientists tracked how people actually slept, the TIMING of sleep predicted survival better than the number of hours. (1/8)

New in Nature Communications (July 2026): scientists engineered an enzyme that reverses one of the most stubborn chemical hallmarks of aging in human tissue. (1/6)

28% Lower Dementia Risk From Two Foods You Probably Already Have That's the finding from a UK Biobank analysis of 121,986 adults. The highest consumers of flavonoid-rich foods — particularly tea and berries — had a 28% lower risk of dementia than the lowest consumers. (1/7)

"Skinny Fat" Isn't Vanity. It's an 83% Higher Risk of Dying. Conventional wisdom: if your BMI is normal, you're fine. That's wrong. New data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing: 12 years of follow-up, 5,440 adults age 50+, published in Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. (1/7)

New in JAMA Network Open: Harvard researchers tracked 92,383 American adults for 28 years, checking their diets every four years, and asked a simple question — does everyday olive oil have anything to do with how people die? (1/7)

Your Vitamin D at 40 May Predict Your Alzheimer's Risk at 55 New in Neurology Open Access: vitamin D levels in midlife may quietly shape whether tau protein builds up in your brain 16 years later. (1/7)

New in Obesity Reviews: researchers at the University of Otago pooled 39 randomized crossover trials to settle a simple question — what is the best way to break up sitting after you eat? (1/8)