ST just decoded what actually happens in your body as you age — and the cell-level substrate the longevity articles skip
If you have read the recent Straits Times ‘New Age’ longevity series, you already know the headline: what happens in our bodies as we age is not one event, it is a cascade. Mitochondrial efficiency drops roughly 10% per decade after 40, NAD+ pools fall...ST just asked ‘how old are you biologically’ — the layer underneath is the protein your skin, joints and bones lose ~1% per year after 25
If you’ve ever glanced at a “how old are you biologically?” quiz and wondered which layer the questions miss — you’re asking exactly the question The Straits Times’ 5 September 2026 piece, “How old are you biologically, and what are...Sea buckthorn vs fish oil vs flaxseed vs evening primrose vs olive oil: which one actually delivers a full omega profile?
If you have ever stood in front of the omega-3 shelf at a pharmacy and felt the decision fatigue creeping in, you are not alone. Fish oil. Flaxseed oil. Evening primrose oil. Olive oil. And — sitting somewhere between “superfood” and “mythical...Exercising while pregnant cuts neurodevelopmental risk in the baby — but 1 in 5 MY/SG moms will develop a UTI first. Here’s how exercise + cranberry PACs + probiotics change the math
There’s a quiet parallel story running alongside the prenatal-exercise coverage in The Star1: the urinary tract problem that 10-20% of pregnant women in Malaysia and Singapore develop before they ever hold their baby. The exercise-and-neurodevelopment headline...The longevity term nobody’s measuring — but your 60s will thank you for tracking
There’s a single word quietly reshaping how researchers and geriatricians measure healthy aging — and you’ve probably never heard it. The WHO coined it more than five years ago, and the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing has been pushing it ever since, but...The Ingestible-Beauty Gold Rush: What ‘Beauty-From-Within’ Actually Delivers
Move over, face serum. Across Malaysia and Singapore, ingestible beauty — the idea that what you swallow can transform your skin, hair and nails as much as what you smooth on top — has crossed firmly out of the beauty aisle and into pharmacy shelves, supplement...Antrodia Cinnamomea: Bukti Klinikal Taiwan untuk Hati
Apabila seorang nenek Taiwan memberitahu anda bahawa cendawan hutan mengekalkan enzim hatinya selama tiga puluh tahun, anda boleh tersenyum sopan dan berlalu. Tetapi apabila lima ujian klinikal yang diterbitkan — kebanyakannya dijalankan di klinik hepatologi terkemuka...Antrodia Cinnamomea for Liver Health: What the Taiwanese Clinical Evidence Actually Supports
Antrodia cinnamomea — the wood-decay mushroom known as niu chang chih — has a small but convergent base of Taiwanese hepatology trials showing liver-enzyme benefits. Here’s what the evidence actually supports, what doesn’t, and how to tell the clinically-studied material from the marketing.
Why fasting blood sugar looks normal but your HbA1c still creeps up
Your fasting glucose is 92 and your HbA1c is 5.6 — and yet you spike to 174 after lunch. The standard blood panel is built for the average, but the biology most of us in this region have is spike-driven. Here is what fructosamine and a two-week CGM catch that HbA1c averages out, and the three mechanism-level interventions that actually move the needle.
