Creatine for Women in 2026: Two 2-Year Trials Found No Bone Benefit – and Who Should Still Take 3g a Day
Creatine for women is being sold as a bone-builder, a brain booster and a menopause fix. Two of the longest
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Sunday, November 8, 2026
Latest:
- Rosemary Oil for Hair Growth in 2026: One 100-Man Trial, No Placebo Group and a Result Nobody Has Repeated
- Edinburgh Hogmanay 2026: Why the £79 Underworld Gardens Ticket Beats the Street Party
- 100ml Liquid Rule at UK Airports This Half-Term: Why a 2-Litre Bottle Clears Heathrow and Gets Binned in Manchester
- Christmas Shows London 2026: A £12.50 Cinderella, a Fourth-Run Potted Panto and the Goes Wrong Seats That Sell Fast
- Best Air Purifier Under £150 for Bonfire Night 2026: What £99 to £130 Buys, and Why the Smoke Peak Is Smaller Than the Adverts Say
Author: Amara Osei
SAD Lamps in 2026: One Trial Puts Them Level With Fluoxetine, Only 46 People Test Prevention – and What to Buy Before the Clocks Go Back on 25 October
A trial that put a light box up against a course of fluoxetine found the lamp did just as well.
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Vitamin D Supplement in Autumn 2026: The NHS Says Start Now, but 10 Micrograms Is All the Evidence Supports
By the end of winter, almost four in ten British girls aged 11 to 18 fall below the blood level
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Are Seed Oils Bad For You? What the Evidence Actually Shows in 2026
Sunflower oil is the cooking oil in more British kitchen cupboards than any other, and for the best part of
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Do Vibration Plates Work? 20 Trials Found No Fat Loss – the 2026 Evidence, and the 4 People Who Should Still Stand on One
Twenty randomised trials. 585 people. And when researchers pooled them last year, vibration plate training on its own made no
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Blue Light Glasses in 2026: 17 Trials Found No Help for Eye Strain – and the Few People Who Should Still Wear Them When the Clocks Go Back
A laptop screen sends your eyes roughly a thousandth of the blue light you’d get from ordinary daylight. That’s not
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Britain Bans the Word ‘Probiotic’ on Labels – So Do Probiotics Actually Work? The 4 People the Evidence Backs in 2026 and the £150 Course Everyone Else Can Skip
Do probiotics actually work? Britain bans the word on labels, so we checked the trials: who should take one in 2026 and who is paying £150 for nothing.
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Cold and Flu Remedies That Actually Work in 2026: Six Pharmacy Staples Versus the Trials, the Lemsip Ingredient America Is Binning – and the Salt Water Fix That Cut Colds by Two Days
Somewhere in Britain this week, someone with a streaming nose will hand over six quid for a box of Lemsip
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Are Nicotine Pouches Safe? Stoptober 2026 Starts in Two Weeks, 770,000 Britons Are Already on Them – and the Entire Trial Evidence Is 269 People
The lad on the rowing machine next to me last Tuesday had never smoked a cigarette in his life. I
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30 Nights With a £399 Sleep Ring: Sleep Tracker Accuracy in 2026 Is Better Than the Sceptics Say – and That Isn’t the Problem
The ring gave my sister’s wedding a 61. I’d had, by any sane measure, one of the best nights of
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