Why doesn’t the human body crave the nutrients in fruits and vegetables, preferring instead to demand sugar and fat in unhealthy quantities?

There are populations around the world that exclusively live off fish and other sea creatures, with minimal fruit, animal products or carbohydrates—so why don’t Inuits suffer vitamin deficiencies? How can the Masai keep running on a diet of just milk, meat and blood?

If you asked Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Yuri Gargarin or any of the pioneering humans to reach space if they’d taken a probiotic supplement with them, you’d likely receive a blank look in response.

We’re used to measuring our health using tools like body mass index (BMI) and resting heart rate, so it feels like a baby step to turn our attentions to what’s under the hood—our genetic code. But, in exchange for a couple of facts about your health or disease risk, you could be selling everything about you.

Collagen is the most abundant and ubiquitous protein in animals and has been an integral part of our diet for centuries, often without us realising it, and its health benefits go further than you’d think.

Hidden disabilities are exactly what they sound like: disabilities that are not immediately apparent. Although the disability is a challenge for the person who has it, it can be difficult for others to recognise or acknowledge the scope of the disability if they can’t see any traditional evidence.