News You Can Use / Protocol Summaries
A curated collection of articles we come across and want to share, organized by area of health. Explore a topic below.
Bone HealthBrainCardiovascularAutoimmuneFemale Hormonal BalanceGastrointestinalKidney/BladderLiverLymphMale Hormonal BalancePancreatic LifeRespiratoryThyroidViral/Bacterial LoadVisionWeight
Bone Health Solutions
- Do Bones Help Control Metabolism And Weight? Columbia Research Shows Skeleton To Be Endocrine OrganColumbia University Irving Medical CenterLandmark finding that bone is not inert scaffolding but an endocrine organ, releasing a hormone called osteocalcin that helps regulate blood sugar and fat.
Brain Solutions
- How Sleep Cleans the Brain and Keeps You HealthyScientific AmericanThe glymphatic system, named for the glial cells that drive it, flushes waste from the brain and runs most efficiently during sleep.
Cardiovascular Solutions
- Beetroot Juice Lowers Blood Pressure in Older People by Changing Oral MicrobiomeUniversity of ExeterThe largest study of its kind found that two weeks of nitrate-rich beetroot shots lowered blood pressure in adults in their 60s and 70s, but not in adults under 30.
Autoimmune Solutions
- Epstein-Barr Virus May Be Leading Cause of Multiple SclerosisHarvard GazetteA landmark study in Science following more than 10 million people found the first compelling evidence that a common virus triggers an autoimmune disease.
Female Hormonal Balance Solutions
- 2025 in Menopause Science: 9 Key Findings and RecommendationsThe Flow SpaceA year in review covering an analysis of nearly 9,500 women showing measurable differences in memory, concentration, and attention during perimenopause.
Gastrointestinal Solutions
- 8 Things to Know About the Gut Microbiome and Keeping Yours HealthyNPREven modest daily additions, a handful of nuts or an avocado, can enrich beneficial bacteria over a few weeks.
- The Gut's Microbiome Changes Rapidly with DietScientific AmericanThe Nature study that established how fast the gut responds, with measurable shifts within three or four days of a dietary change.
Kidney/Bladder Solutions
- Difference in Kidney Function Tests Predicts Health RisksNational Institutes of HealthA November 2025 JAMA analysis of more than 800,000 patients showing that two standard kidney tests often disagree, and that the disagreement itself carries meaning.
- New Atlas of Human Kidney Cells to Help Unlock Kidney Disease ResearchNational Institutes of HealthApril 2025 release of a public map of 51 kidney cell types, including rare and previously unknown populations.
Liver Solutions
- Your Liver Is Just Under Three Years OldTU Dresden, Center for Regenerative TherapiesUsing radiocarbon dating of cells, researchers found the human liver stays under three years old on average, whether you are 20 or 84.
Lymph Solutions
- They'll Have to Rewrite the TextbooksUVA Today, University of VirginiaThe 2015 discovery of lymphatic vessels connecting the brain to the immune system, structures that were believed not to exist.
- Researchers Zero In on Potential New Function of Lymphatic System: Producing BloodUniversity of South AustraliaA Nature paper showing lymphatic vessels can produce red and white blood cells, a job previously credited only to bone marrow.
Male Hormonal Balance Solutions
- The Testosterone Trap: Why Your Problem Might Not Be 'Low T'CNNA physician explains why symptoms blamed on low testosterone often trace back to sleep, stress, or weight, and why sleep is central to hormone regulation.
- Columbia Research Shows Skeleton To Be Endocrine OrganColumbia University Irving Medical CenterThe same osteocalcin research also traced a signal from bone to the testes, linking skeletal health to testosterone production.
Pancreatic Life Solutions
- Regenerating the Pancreas: Diabetes Reversal in a Preclinical Model Using a Small PeptideDiabetes Research Institute, University of MiamiJuly 2025 finding that a small peptide can wake dormant progenitor cells in the pancreatic ducts and regenerate insulin-producing cells.
Respiratory Solutions
- Ex-Smokers' Lungs Can Almost 'Magically' Replenish ThemselvesNews-Medical.NetExplains that scientists had previously assumed the damage was permanent, and how the biopsy study proved otherwise.
- Good News: Lungs Can Repair Themselves After You Quit SmokingThe Conversation (via The National Interest)Written by the two lead researchers themselves for a general audience, including the honest caveat that deeper lung damage is not reversible.
Thyroid Solutions
- Discovery Illuminates How Thyroid Hormone 'Dims' MetabolismScienceDaily (Penn Medicine)Penn researchers showed thyroid hormone works less like an on/off switch and more like a dimmer, turning some genes up and others down.
- Thyroid News and ResearchEndocrine News, Endocrine SocietyOngoing plain-language coverage from the professional society, including work showing the thyroid-heart relationship is more complex than long assumed.
Vision Solutions
- New Cells Discovered in Eye Could Help Restore Vision, Scientists SayLive ScienceTwo types of retinal stem cells identified at the outer edge of the retina, one of which can become other retinal cell types.
Weight Solutions
- Metabolism in Adulthood Does Not Slow as Commonly Believed, Study FindsNBC NewsExplains the doubly labeled water method that made the measurement possible, in plain terms.