What we can learn when we give our wellness routines a fresh look After writing about niacin, I kept thinking about how easily our supplement routines grow. One bottle for heart health. Another for inflammation. Something for energy. Something else because a friend swears by it. Before long, the morning routine involves a small collection of capsules—and a fairly impressive receipt. We add things because we want to take care of ourselves. That is a good intention. But perhaps

Every few years, something decidedly unsexy gets rediscovered by the wellness world and suddenly becomes a thing. Right now, fiber is having a moment. More specifically, viscous fiber is getting quite a bit of attention. Except I have a confession. For the longest time, I was reading viscous fiber as vicious fiber. You know how sometimes you stare at a math problem for so long that your brain simply refuses to see the one little thing you’ve gotten wrong? You finally hand it

Here’s a little secret about medicine: It changes its mind. And thank goodness it does. Not because doctors were foolish 30 years ago. Not because researchers were incompetent. And certainly not because your grandmother was trying to lead you astray when she insisted that whatever she was recommending had “been proven.” We simply don’t know what we don’t know. Medical advice is generally based on the best evidence available at the time. Then larger studies are conducted. Peop