Time to sign out of your Work Bag, sling a straw basket bag over your shoulder and feel your pulse slow down Is there any point putting an out of office on your emails when you go on holiday any more? “I won’t have access to emails.” Yeah, right. Sorry, you aren’t fooling anyone: no one goes on holiday without their phone in 2025. Your office know perfectly well that if you don’t answer emails, t…

A recent study presented at ENDO 2025 reveals that artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose, commonly found in diet products and even toothpaste, may trigger early puberty in children. The research, involving over 1,400 Taiwanese children, found a link between higher sweetener consumption and early puberty, especially in those with specific genetic traits.

When you think of the microbiome, you probably think of your gut. But bacteria live all over your body. And they’re incredibly numerous; you play host to about as many microbes — a hundred trillion of them — as you do human cells. As my guest will explain, these microbial ecosystems are not only ubiquitous […] This article was originally published on The Art of Manliness.