Performing the newest 14 in 1 respiratory rapid test 🏡 Innovation by Measie . Who ever thought you could detect 14 biomarkers in just 15 minutes? Rick Bright

Normalization of glucose in people with prediabetes, i.e. achieving remission, is linked to halving of major cardiovascular adverse events over ensuing decades thelancet.com/journals/landi…

42% of Americans are obese, compared with just 4.5% of Japanese people. Why? Japan 🇯🇵 is the only rich country that stayed thin while the West got obese. Johann Hari says it has almost nothing to do with genetics (he compared obesity rates to Japanese Hawaiians) and everything

An important paper about prediabetes, a condition affecting 98 million Americans, coverage The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/12/15/wel… by Dr. Nina

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Happy to share my first peer reviewed publication in Frontiers. A great start to 2026 for Okos diagnostics. Together with Helix Biogen Institute , we validated biodegradable lateral flow cassettes under real world field conditions in Nigeria, showing that sustainable diagnostics are

Insulin resistance — which can result from constantly eating highly processed foods that spike our insulin — is a common thread of many chronic diseases that we need to talk about.

Finally getting to the root cause: Whilst we are facing the obesity epidemic, at the heart of this issue is poor population metabolic health, affecting millions of people of normal weight who are still significantly at risk. Robert Lufkin MD weforum.org/stories/2026/0…

A dairy cow in the Netherlands appears to have been infected with H5N1, the first report of this deadly avian influenza virus having spread to cattle outside of the United States. science.org/content/articl…

Hooked by Hooked Michael Moss 📕 Such an important read. We banned cigarette ads once we understood addiction. But we still market hyper-palatable, energy-dense foods to kids. Similar science. Same tactics. New victims. Example: Give people 10 colors of M&M’s instead of 6,

Hot off the press! 🔥 Our new BMJ piece shows how the focus on “healthy” UPFs—promoted by industry and nutrient-centric academics—inflates benefits, legitimizes industry narratives, and distracts from the real priority: cutting overall UPF consumption. bmj.com/content/392/bm…

UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers theguardian.com/global-develop…

There is growing global concern about the addictive properties of ultra-processed foods even hough food addiction is not yet included in the International Classification of Diseases.” 🎂 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41555704/

The most complete comparison yet between cigarettes and UPFs. Both are engineered delivery systems designed to maximize reinforcement, habitual overuse, and profits—using sensory additives, and reward acceleration, while driving disease and health costs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

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In 1996, 60 Minutes spoke with then-FDA commissioner David Kessler about his investigation into the tobacco industry. Dr. Kessler presented Lesley Stahl with his evidence that tobacco companies had manipulated nicotine levels to hook consumers.