Plain-language explainers on ADHD, autism, sleep, memory and more. Each one sets out what the evidence says and where it stops.
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STOP-BANG is a validated eight-question screener for obstructive sleep apnea. Here are the exact questions, how it's scored, and what to do with the answer.
Sleep apnea is a mechanical airway problem. Sleep supplements don't address it, and deeper sedation may point the wrong way. Here's why, from a company that sells them.
The standard NHS pathway can run past eight years in parts of the country. A separate NHS mechanism, Right to Choose, can get a referral processed in around two weeks. Here's how each route actually works.
Zinc comes up often in depression-and-nutrition circles, usually pointing to observational studies showing depressed people tend to have lower blood zinc.
Hops (Humulus lupulus) is best known as a beer ingredient, but the same plant compounds have a real pharmacology — the strobile (flower) extract has been studied for…
Exercise as an intervention for depression gets a lot of enthusiastic coverage. The trial data supports it — with real, specific limits worth knowing before expecting…
"Burnout" often gets treated as a motivation problem — push through it, take a long weekend, move on.
"Exercise helps anxiety" is true but not very actionable on its own — which type, and how much? A 2026 network meta-analysis set out to answer exactly that.
A dose-response relationship — more of a thing producing more of an effect — is one of the stronger signals available in nutrition science, because it's much harder to…
Magnesium for sleep is one of the most-searched supplement questions there is — and most of what gets written about it doesn't cite an actual trial.
"Lowers cortisol" is one of the most repeated claims in stress-supplement marketing — and one of the least often checked against an actual trial. We went and checked.
Dopamine balance, a prefrontal cortex that shows up differently, a mind-wandering network that won't switch off. Here's what neuroscience actually shows about an ADHD brain.
L-theanine, omega-3 and magnesium all get cited in focus and attention conversations. Here's what the actual human trial evidence shows for each — and where it stops.
What an adult ADHD assessment in Ireland actually costs and how long it actually takes — public wait times, real private pricing, and the shared-care gap nobody mentions upfront.
Grief and loss can cause real, measurable memory and attention changes — sometimes called "grief brain." Here's what the research (and, for a minority of people, Prolonged Grief Disorder) actually shows.
Yes, with real research behind it — and also no, not in the way most of what you've seen about it online claims.
Omega-3 fatty acids — specifically DHA and EPA — have been studied as a possible risk-reduction factor for postpartum depression, and the honest summary is: the evidence…
Menopause isn't a condition to treat — it's a normal transition, and magnesium isn't a treatment for it.
ADHD and sleep problems overlap so often that researchers now treat the connection as close to the rule rather than the exception: reviews of the evidence put disrupted…
Magnesium is one of the few supplements with a real guideline endorsement for migraine prevention — the American Academy of Neurology and American Headache Society class…
The best current evidence on dementia risk comes from the Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care — a standing group of dementia researchers who…
Three small, decades-old trials on magnesium and premenstrual symptoms show real but narrow evidence — strongest for physical symptoms, thinner for mood, and never tested in diagnosed PMDD.
Several observational studies link lower magnesium status to more severe ADHD symptoms in children, and small trials combining magnesium with B6 or vitamin D show modest improvements — here's what the evidence actually supports, and where it stops.
Autistic children and adults fall asleep, stay asleep, and sleep through the night at meaningfully lower rates than the general population — a systematic update of the…
Omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) have a real, decades-long research base in ADHD — but almost all of it is in children and adolescents, and even there the picture is…