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Antibiotic abuse – The unseen driver of insulin resistance

​In the global battle against lifestyle diseases, Type 2 Diabetes is traditionally framed around familiar culprits like refined sugars, sedentary habits, and genetic predisposition. However, a far more insidious trigger has been quietly shaping metabolic health…

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Paracetamol Works. But We Still Don’t Fully Know How.

Why one of medicine’s most familiar tablet still resists a simple explanation The idea for this article came to me during a fever. The fever had left me exhausted, aching and too drained to get out…