A video watched 4.3 million times says people who never get dementia share a morning habit. In a ten-year Dutch trial of a habit programme, 11.6% got dementia against 11.9% without it. The programmes lift test scores a little; the clearest cut in diagnoses came from treating high blood pressure.
Statins do raise blood sugar: by about 0.7 mg/dL on average in the blinded trials that measured it, enough to add roughly one diabetes diagnosis per 1,000 people a year on a standard dose, most of them in people already close to the line. Here is that number beside the heart attacks and strokes statins prevent, measured in the same people where trials counted both, and who sits where.
In five cohorts of people averaging over 70, the slowest quarter at getting out of a chair died at 1.96 times the rate of the fastest. Year-long exercise trials raise the score a little and cut falls; deaths came out 5.5% with exercise against 5.8% without.
Tirzepatide has the bigger number: 20.2% against 13.7%, in one open-label, Lilly-funded trial. Semaglutide has the bigger trial: 17,604 people and a fifth fewer heart attacks and strokes. Which matters depends on what you are trying to lose.
Muscle growth was the same at light and heavy loads across 28 trials, as long as sets went near failure. Push-ups matched a bench press in three more. The catch is not the equipment. It is where bodyweight runs out of ways to get harder.
Cut sugar and eat freely, and the trials show about 1.8 lb gone. Swap it for the same calories of other carbs and the scale does not move. What a no-sugar diet actually is, and why the detox has nothing to detox.
In a review of 114 trials, people who lifted and changed nothing about their diet lost fat and gained lean mass at the same time. The hard part is not the recomp. It is the deficit you chose to hurry it.
The calorie number on the thumbnail is about triple what was measured, and the trials came up short on fat. So why does anyone lose weight dancing? We think the answer is a calendar, not a calorie table.
The number on the display has a decimal place. In the best direct test, one reading from the worst of three bathroom scales fits a DXA value anywhere across a 23-point span, and even the best scale's band was about 13 points wide.
The main Cochrane review says exercise eases chronic back pain, at moderate certainty, and most clearly in the first few months. For a new episode the answer is different, and which exercise is best is less certain still.