The metabolic cost of the Indian office day
Eleven sedentary hours, a late dinner and a 6 a.m. alarm, read as a physiological load — and the three smallest changes that alter it.
Read the essay →Essays in progress
The writing schedule, in the open. Each piece ships to the dispatch first and lands here after.
In the dispatch
Ashwagandha: what forty trials actually show
Extract type, dose, duration, cortisol endpoints — and why the effect sizes shrink as the studies get larger.
Fasting windows, held to the evidence
Where time-restricted eating beats plain calorie reduction in trials, where it doesn't, and who should not attempt it at all.
Light, before supplements
Morning outdoor lux, evening dimming, and why the cheapest circadian intervention is also the most neglected.
Reading a lipid panel without panic
Why ApoB deserves the attention total cholesterol receives, and what the ratios do and do not add.
What the classical texts got right by accident
Routine, seasonality and the early main meal — traditional prescriptions that survive contact with circadian biology, and several that don't.
Corrections are published as prominently as the original claim. If we get something wrong, tell us.