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Heart health
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Vitamin C: uses, evidence, dosing and safety
Vitamin C has been tested against the common cold for sixty years and the answer is still a shrug: it may shorten one slightly, and taking it once a cold has started does almost nothing.
Aug 6, 2026
Coenzyme Q10: uses, evidence, dosing and safety
CoQ10 has decent evidence for the serious condition almost nobody buys it for, and it fails at the one thing almost everybody buys it for. Statin muscle pain is the claim that does not hold up.
Aug 5, 2026
A midlife blood marker tracked dementia 25 years ahead
Across several cohorts, a protein called GDF15 measured in midlife lined up with dementia risk 15 to 25 years later. The link was stronger for vascular dementia than for Alzheimer's disease.
Aug 4, 2026
Heart deaths halved since 1990. The causes swapped places.
A JAMA Cardiology analysis of US deaths from 1990 to 2023 found the heart disease death rate down 58.7%, with smoking and air pollution receding as causes while high body weight and blood sugar climbed.
Aug 3, 2026