@anita_k
Health journalist · ex-NYT
Health journalist. I read the studies so you don't have to, then translate them into things you can actually do. Skeptic of wellness, fan of evidence.
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Wellness culture, at its best, is people taking responsibility for their own bodies in ways that medicine often ignores. At its worst, it is a long con.The con is selling the idea that you can biohack your way around pr…
I have spent ten years writing about health. The single intervention I would prescribe to almost anyone, almost always, is more sleep. It outperforms most things you can buy, supplement, or biohack. It is free. It is no…
If you read enough longevity research, you start noticing that the same habits keep showing up in the data. One of them is morning daylight exposure combined with light movement. Twenty minutes of walking outside, ideal…
For most of the last decade, I have written about exercise without doing much of it. The hypocrisy was getting harder to ignore. Last year I committed to ninety days of structured resistance training: three days a week,…
The intermittent-fasting discourse has reached the worst version of its lifecycle: equal parts overhyped and overcorrected. The truth is duller than either side wants.What the studies actually show: time-restricted eati…
Wellness culture, at its best, is people taking responsibility for their own bodies in ways that medicine often ignores. At its worst, it is a long con.The con is selling the idea that you can biohack your way around pr…
