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A radical rethink of what makes your diet healthy or bad for you

What you eat has a surprising impact on the pH of your body with wide ranging impacts on your health. But getting the balance right isn’t as simple as eating fewer acidic foods

The improvement in hair growth after 56 days of using the serum

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Serum based on plant extracts boosts hair growth in weeks

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Therapy may be the most effective way to ease irritable bowel syndrome

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We’ve discovered another reason why naked mole rats live for so long

A network of nerves (white) throughout the ovary of a mouse (left) and in a fragment of human ovary (right), alongside eggs (green). A growing follicle containing an egg is shown in magenta in the human ovary

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Hidden ecosystem of the ovaries plays a surprising role in fertility

Surgeons carrying out the pig liver transplant at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, China, in May 2024

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Pig liver transplant into a living person edges it closer to the norm

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Why not all ultra-processed foods are bad for you

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Selfish sperm see older fathers pass on more disease-causing mutations

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Why everything you thought you knew about your immune system is wrong

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There are five types of sleep – here’s what that means for your health

Scientists have identified five sleep profiles, each of which is linked to distinct mental health symptoms and brain activity patterns

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What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do anything to change it?

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Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance

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Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain

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Exploring PMS is a great idea, but The Period Brain can be simplistic