Unlock Your Health Potential
Faizan Ahmed 
Introduction On the morning of the incident, he was lifting nothing heavier than the kettle. I bent down and put the toaster on, and my back closed so tightly that I had to sit on the kitchen floor ten minutes before getting up again. I finally had the experience of leaning on a laptop for … Read more
Introduction After my first Ramadan as an adult, eating Iftar felt like the finish line. I had fasted all day, so I took advantage of the night as permission to eat as much as I wanted, as much as I wanted, and the reward was to spend hours. It left me sluggish, restless, and somehow … Read more
Introduction For years, I used “I’m very obsessive about this” in the same way that most people do, to describe the desire to like a clean table or to tidy things up. It wasn’t until someone close to me was formally diagnosed that I realized how far this simple phrase was from the original condition. … Read more
Introduction For months, I believed he was doing everything right. I woke up, made a green smoothie, and felt really satisfied with myself. It had spinach in it. Spinach. Of course it must have made some sense. I also had a big banana, a cup of mango, a little drop of honey, and apple juice … Read more
Introduction In April 2026, Jelly Roll uploaded a YouTube video that looked nothing like a typical celebrity weight-loss update. No triumphant before-and-after. Instead, he admitted he’d been avoiding the scale out of fear, then turned the camera around to reveal he weighed 276.2 pounds, twelve pounds heavier than where he’d stood just months earlier on … Read more
Introduction When I first tried to run as an adult, I got to about 90 seconds and stopped—hands on my knees, panting, deeply regretting every decision that led me to this path. He wasn’t particularly out of shape. I used to walk regularly. I considered myself quite active. And I couldn’t run for 90 seconds … Read more
Why Men (and Women) Are Being Misdiagnosed — And What the Science Actually Shows My friend is one of the people I know the most about health. He runs three times a week, watches his diet, barely drinks and has done everything a man was told in his forties to stay healthy. So when she … Read more
Here’s the Short Version: A friend of a friend, Zeeshan, went most of a year with poor sleep before depression set in, and it made me wonder which one came first. Research links long-term insomnia to a higher risk of developing depression, but it raises the odds rather than guaranteeing it, and the relationship isn’t … Read more
Here’s the Short Version: A friend’s wife, Maryam, asked me whether her depression had caused her miscarriage. Early miscarriages are most often caused by problems with how the pregnancy develops, which nobody can prevent, and depression hasn’t been shown to be a direct cause, though lasting or very high stress may raise the risk. If … Read more
Here’s the Short Version: A retired teacher I know, Javed, had several long low spells over the years and was later diagnosed with early dementia, and he asked me whether the depression caused it. Research shows depression is linked to a higher risk of dementia, but the link runs in more than one direction and … Read more