Dr Reece Yeo - Holistic Chinese Medicine Practitioner

18/08/2026

Scientists have discovered that a key molecule released during exercise strengthens muscles, improves exercise performance and could be a potential therapeutic treatment for muscle damage caused by type 2 diabetes.

17/08/2026

DEXA scans are important for people in their 60s and above. It is most often used to help determine a person’s risk of osteoporosis, but they are also increasingly used by younger people interested in body composition.
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17/08/2026

17/08/2026

A meta-analysis of six prospective cohort studies involving 721,003 adults found that higher artificial sweetener intake was associated with a 31% greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The evidence was rated low certainty because of substantial heterogeneity, observational study designs, and p...

17/08/2026

Thousands of children have been hospitalized after poisoning by vitamins and minerals in recent years, the majority ingested intentionally, a nationwide study showed.

Over just 3 years, the federal Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids’ Inpatient Database recorded vitamin and mineral toxicity as a cause of hospitalization for 1961 children. That represented just the supplements for which there was a toxicity-related International Classification of Diseases-10 code, said Marina Masciale, MD, MPH, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, whose group reported the findings at the Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) 2026 in Kansas City, Missouri. “Our study probably only scratched the surface,” she said. Tap the link to read more on the study: https://mdsc.pe/4g54dyn

17/08/2026

We usually think of bodily sensations as information the brain receives. What if the way we attend to those sensations can feed back and change the biological response itself?

17/08/2026

The size of a person's midsection is a better indicator of cardiovascular disease risk than body mass index (BMI) alone, according to a study published in JACC. BMI has traditionally been used to determine overweight or obesity, common risk factors for heart disease, but this study shows that not ac...

17/08/2026

More than 18 months have passed since The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission proposed a new framework for assessing obesity and its associated cardiovascular (CV) risks, debate over BMI continues.

The commission recommended distinguishing between preclinical obesity, in which excess adiposity increases future health risk despite the absence of obesity-related illness, and clinical obesity, in which excess adiposity has already caused illness. Making that distinction, the commission argued, requires more than BMI alone because it does not adequately capture body fat distribution or obesity-related CV risk.

One of the latest studies supporting this concept followed 102,237 adults with preclinical obesity and 182,953 adults with clinical obesity. None had diagnosed CV disease at baseline. More on the study: https://mdsc.pe/4fT0sMk