Unlock Your Health Potential
Faizan Ahmed 
Short + Direct Answer: After 30 days of actually tracking my grape portions, the evidence was clear — grapes don’t cause weight gain on their own; unmeasured, mindless portions do, the same as with any food. The experiment changed less about what I ate and more about how much attention I was paying to a … Read more
Then I Found the Real Answer It started the January I decided to eat healthier. Out went the biscuits and crisps; in came the fruit bowl. Two apples a day, every day, because that’s what healthy eating looked like in my head. I felt smug about it. Virtuous, even. I also, within about two weeks, … Read more
Here’s What the Science Actually Says For 11 days my uncle was in hospital with bacterial pneumonia. On arrival at home he was weak, unable to walk without help and did not eat well. His hunger had virtually ceased — something very good for his family to know, as they soon discovered, is his most … Read more
Here’s What Nobody Tells You About Starting When You’re Slim My cousin Layla was the first person who came to the gym, and immediately walked away. It wasn’t the equipment that intimidated her. Nor was it the noise or the mirrors or the strange machines. It was the instant sense — the gut sense — … Read more
A Teenager Asked Me This and I Dug Into the Science Omar was my cousin and a fifteen-year-old wanting to join his local gym for months. He was playing football 3 times per week, had begun doing push-ups in his bedroom every night and was really excited to get stronger. His parents were supportive, until … Read more
Here’s the Honest Truth About What Happened At the age of 23 I decided to start my first real gym. I used to go four or five days a week, train regularly but I was never going to alter my diet. Too much and too soon was this. The gym was already a significant transition. … Read more
Here’s Exactly What to Eat Before and After Every Workout I kept working hard and had a pretty decent diet for 12 months. Protein at every meal, veggies most days, not too much junk. I was doing what I should do on paper. In reality I would arrive to the gym without having eaten anything … Read more
Here’s the Exact Meal Plan That Actually Built Muscle I had done a lot of things right in the gym for the first 18 months of my training. I was there every day, I followed a programme, I recorded my lifts, I slept fairly well. And I made progress — but it was slow. Inevitably, … Read more
These Natural Remedies and Foods Finally Gave Me My Life Back It began so slowly I didn’t realize what was going on. When I woke up, my back would be tight. There was a slight ache in my shoulders and legs by mid-afternoon as if I had a heavy load on my back without my … Read more
Here’s What Your Body Is Actually Trying to Tell You You went to bed at a reasonable hour. You slept for eight hours. Your alarm went off and you lay there wondering how on earth you could still feel this tired. We’ve all been there. The heavy limbs in the morning but not moving until … Read more