Unlock Your Health Potential
Faizan Ahmed 
Why I Couldn’t Stop Thinking About This A few months ago, a reader wrote to me about his youngest son – a family who first reached out after reading one of my earlier pieces on childhood developmental changes —a toddler who was talking, laughing, and arriving on time at every milestone. Then, near her third … Read more
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
What Changed for Me After Last Season’s Unusual Strain In most years, I treat the flu in the same way: a few days feeling unwell, paracetamol, fluids, and a week back to normal. They didn’t follow that script last winter. The fever lasted longer than expected, the cough deepened in my chest, and when I … Read more
Introduction Itchy throat, slight stiffness, slight fatigue. Those were all symptoms I had a few months ago, and my first reaction was to think it was a common cold. I hadn’t even thought about getting tested for Covid until a colleague mentioned that last week I had tested positive with almost identical symptoms. That night … 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