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Twelve evidence-backed health and life lessons for men in their 40s, covering exercise, health checks, sleep, relationships, mental health and ageing well.
15 September 2026 · 13 min read
What the studies really say about food and skin cancer, the one supplement with trial evidence, how weight fits in, and how to get your 150 minutes a week when you have been told to avoid the sun.
14 September 2026 · 13 min read
Yes, in most cases, and usually with one operation. Melanoma survival by stage, how basal and squamous cell cancers are treated, and how immunotherapy changed stage IV, told through one family's diagnosis.
14 September 2026 · 13 min read
My mother has had eleven skin cancers removed. Here is what the research says actually prevents them, from the Nambour sunscreen trial to the monthly self check, without living in the dark.
14 September 2026 · 13 min read
When a calyceal diverticulum needs treating and when it does not, with the stone free rates for shock wave, ureteroscopy, percutaneous and laparoscopic options, and the one question to ask your surgeon.
13 September 2026 · 12 min read
The diet and exercise plan for living with a calyceal diverticulum: how much to drink, salt and calcium targets, citrate, the plan by stone type, weight, and safe exercise, with the trials behind each.
13 September 2026 · 12 min read
A calyceal diverticulum is a small pocket in the kidney most people are born with. What it is, why it forms, the symptoms and tests, and what you can and cannot prevent, told through one sister's diagnosis.
13 September 2026 · 13 min read
The ADHD diet advice that survives blinded trials, the foods that help and hurt, how to eat around stimulant medication, and the exercise and sleep routine that made the biggest difference in one family.
13 September 2026 · 11 min read
ADHD is about as heritable as height, so prevention is limited. What you can prevent is the harm. A mother of a son and wife of a husband both diagnosed walks through the causes, symptoms and the seven steps with real evidence.
13 September 2026 · 11 min read
ADHD cannot be cured, but the treatments work better than most people expect. Every licensed medicine and therapy compared by trial effect size, the side effects as they really feel, and the registry data on accidents, crime and depression.
13 September 2026 · 12 min read
My mother thought she had a heart problem. It was a gallbladder full of stones, and the crash diet she was proud of had helped fill it. Here is what actually prevents gallstones, with the studies.
13 September 2026 · 12 min read
The liver is the most forgiving organ you own. What cure means for each type of liver disease, the medicines that arrived since 2024, and how far back cirrhosis can go.
13 September 2026 · 11 min read
Dry toast and boiled chicken were making my mother's attacks worse. The gallstone diet that replaced them, with a sample day and an exercise routine that has trial evidence.
13 September 2026 · 11 min read
No cleanse tea, no kale mountain. A plain, sustainable liver friendly diet and exercise plan built from the trials that measured liver fat, including the cirrhosis rules most people get wrong.
13 September 2026 · 12 min read
A persuasive video nearly kept my mother in pain for another year. Every option for getting rid of gallstones, including the ones that do not work, with the evidence attached.
13 September 2026 · 11 min read
Fatty liver is now the most common liver disease in the world, and most people who have it do not drink. Here is what actually protects your liver, with the studies.
13 September 2026 · 12 min read
Most weight loss plans are written for people who are slightly overweight and already fit. This one is for everyone else: what to eat, how to move safely, how fast to lose and how to keep it off.
13 September 2026 · 14 min read
Can obesity be cured? An honest, sourced look at what each treatment achieves, from structured programmes to semaglutide, tirzepatide and surgery, what happens when you stop, and how to choose.
13 September 2026 · 12 min read
Obesity rarely arrives in a rush. It creeps in at two kilograms a year. Here are the real causes, the trials that tested prevention, and the habits that matter, told through one brother's twenty years.
13 September 2026 · 12 min read
Most people with one kidney do not need a restrictive renal diet. Here is what the guidelines actually say about protein, salt, foods to eat and avoid, and how to exercise safely during and after treatment.
13 September 2026 · 13 min read
An honest, sourced answer to the first question everyone asks: survival rates by stage, what surgery and surveillance involve, and how immunotherapy has transformed advanced disease.
13 September 2026 · 11 min read
Kidney cancer is found by accident more often than by symptoms. Here are the signs to know, the causes ranked by the evidence, and a practical prevention plan, told through one family's experience.
13 September 2026 · 12 min read
A clear map of what happens after the pain starts: pain relief, imaging, passage rates by stone size, and the surgery options explained in plain language.
13 September 2026 · 11 min read
I thought I was dying at thirty eight. Six years and a lot of reading later, here is what genuinely prevents kidney stones, with the trials to back it up.
13 September 2026 · 12 min read
My sister in law ate better than anyone I know and still formed stones every nine months. The 24 hour urine test explained why in one line.
13 September 2026 · 11 min read