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I took psychedelics at 58 for treatment-resistant depression. What happened in the months after wasn’t a miracle, but it was the first time in decades I recognized my o…

Gerald sat in his kitchen in Tucson and cried into a bowl of oatmeal the morning after his first psilocybin session — not ...
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I stopped taking supplements after my doctor showed me what three years of stacking them had done to my bloodwork. The numbers were worse than when I started.

Derek Huang spent three years and $140 a month stacking supplements he was sure were protecting his health. Then his bloodwork told a different story — and the hardest part wasn't the numbers. It was ...
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ChatGPT outperformed expectations in a structured medical triage test, and some doctors aren’t surprised

A structured medical triage test showed ChatGPT performing at levels that surprised researchers — but some physicians say the real surprise is how long we've avoided comparing AI's risks to the risks ...
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Women over 50 are being diagnosed with sleep apnea at record rates because doctors spent decades treating it as a male condition

Women over 50 are being diagnosed with sleep apnea at record rates — not because of a sudden epidemic, but because medicine ...
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A neurologist says certain supplement combinations millions take daily may actually be accelerating brain aging

A growing number of neurologists are flagging an uncomfortable pattern: certain popular supplement combinations taken daily ...
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Psychology says people who adopt an all-or-nothing approach to exercise aren’t disciplined. They’re using perfectionism to avoid the discomfort of being a beginner.

The all-or-nothing approach to exercise isn't discipline — it's a defense mechanism that protects you from the deeply ...
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Psychology says people who quit things cold turkey and people who can’t start at all usually share the same underlying problem

The person who quits everything cold turkey and the person who can never seem to start share the same invisible architecture ...
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I quit my career, bought the house on the lake, and had nowhere to be for the first time in my adult life. By week six I was Googling ‘why do I feel like I’m already dead.’

The lake-house fantasy promises liberation, but when the striving stops, the self built around striving doesn't know what it ...
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Research suggests people who take up bird watching in midlife aren’t just finding a hobby. Their brains are responding to something clinical.

A growing body of research suggests that the surge of midlife adults taking up bird watching isn't a lifestyle trend — it's a neurological response to decades of attentional depletion, and the ...
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The people who stay sharpest after 70 aren’t doing crosswords. They’re doing something that looks a lot more like play.

Brain-training games make you better at brain-training games. But the people who stay sharpest after 70 are doing something far less structured — and far more human — than puzzles.
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I started bird photography at 33 because my therapist told me to find something that required patience. Six months later my memory tests improved and my blood pressure dropped ...

A 33-year-old project manager started bird photography on his therapist's advice. Six months later, his blood pressure dropped 18 points and his memory scores improved — not because of the birds, but ...
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The retirement crisis nobody talks about isn’t money. It’s people who spent 30 years holding families together and now can’t remember what they actually enjoy.

The retirement crisis nobody talks about doesn't show up in financial statements. It shows up in the kitchen on a quiet Tuesday morning, when the person who held everyone together realizes they can't ...