by pedro.alvarez | Jul 16, 2026 | Newsletter
This week, the focus is on something a lot of you are probably feeling right now: that flattened, foggy tiredness that extreme heat brings on, and that water alone doesn’t seem to fix. With heatwaves settling over large parts of the world, from Europe to the US...
by pedro.alvarez | Jul 9, 2026 | Newsletter
Last week, we went back in time a bit, looking at how modern medicine came to sideline so many natural approaches. This week, I want to bring things right back to the present, and to something you can actually put on your plate today. You’ve probably heard of...
by pedro.alvarez | Jul 2, 2026 | Newsletter
What Happened to Natural Medicine, and Why Nobody Told You We are halfway through the year. It feels like a natural moment to pause and to say something that sits behind much of what this newsletter has been building towards since January. Every week, we cover sleep,...
by pedro.alvarez | Jun 25, 2026 | Newsletter
Why Sleep Might Be the Most Important Thing You Do All Day If you have come across Bryan Johnson in recent years, you will know he is not a conventional figure. The tech entrepreneur has spent considerable sums trying to slow and reverse his own biological ageing...
by pedro.alvarez | Jun 18, 2026 | Newsletter
Your Body Has Two Ages. One of Them You Can Actually Change. You have a chronological age, which is simply the number of years you have been alive. But you also have a biological age, and the two do not always match. Biological age reflects how your body is actually...
by pedro.alvarez | Jun 11, 2026 | Newsletter
Last week, we looked at gardening, and a number of you mentioned the social side almost as an afterthought. The allotment neighbours, the community plot, the friend you potter around with on a Sunday morning. It stayed with me because the research on social connection...
