June 22, 2025
Essay
Melanotan Nasal Spray and Barbie Drug Risks
A risk-communication essay on melanotan nasal sprays, tanning peptides, sexual side effects, black-market marketing, and safety concerns.
Topic hub
Wellness Claims
Evidence-first writing on supplements, nutrition, wellness panics, influencer claims, and health stories that outrun the data.
Essays
12 linked piece(s)
This hub groups related writing so readers can move from one argument to the surrounding disease history, ecology, and evidence.
June 5, 2025
Essay
Magnesium for Sleep: Evidence vs Hype
A skeptical look at magnesium for sleep, mocktail marketing, supplement evidence, and why plausible mechanisms are not enough.
June 3, 2025
Essay
Dopamine Detox Claims and Brain Training
A critique of dopamine detox claims, poorly trained brains, social media habits, reward systems, and pop-neuroscience oversimplification.
May 31, 2025
Essay
Melatonin Misuse and Sleep Evidence
Why melatonin is misunderstood, who may benefit, how timing matters, and where sleep supplement claims outrun the evidence.
May 29, 2025
Essay
Raw Milk Risks and Evidence
A public-health look at raw milk, foodborne pathogens, pasteurization, outbreak risk, and the evidence behind natural-food claims.
May 27, 2025
Essay
Natural Wellness Claims and Disease Risk
A critique of “back to nature” wellness claims, synthetic panic, food fear, and why nature is not automatically safer.
May 21, 2025
Essay
Vitamin D, Dementia, and Rhonda Patrick’s Claims
An evidence check on Rhonda Patrick’s vitamin D and dementia claims, observational studies, confounding, and supplement certainty.
May 20, 2025
Essay
Detox Cleanses and the Body’s Real Filtration Systems
Why detox cleanses, supplement stacks, and smoothie cures misunderstand liver, kidney, and gastrointestinal physiology.
May 17, 2025
Essay
Creatine Benefits and Evidence
Why creatine may be underrated for people who could benefit, including muscle, aging, cognition claims, and supplement evidence limits.
May 2, 2025
Essay
Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer Risk Evidence
A risk-communication guide to artificial sweeteners, health headlines, cancer fears, confounding, and scapegoat nutrition claims.
April 29, 2025
Essay
Gluten Panic and Food Fear
How gluten became a wellness panic, what celiac disease and sensitivity evidence actually show, and where food fear outruns data.
April 8, 2025
Essay
Obesity, Dopamine, and Reward Biology
Why obesity is not simply a dopamine deficiency, what reward biology suggests, and how simple neurochemical stories mislead.