Ida-Marie Palm Varbæk

My name is Ida-Marie Palm Varbæk, and I work as an editor at the health media platform Welltica, which is part of Media Group Denmark. Here, I write daily articles focusing on health and lifestyle.I hold a master’s degree in Film and Media Studies and have been part of Media Group Denmark since August 2024.

Where you live after a pregnancy may quietly shape your type 2 diabetes risk

Walkable streets may lower type 2 diabetes risk for women who had gestational diabetes.

Ultra-processed food may raise your prostate cancer risk by nearly a third

A study of more than 17,000 men links the heaviest ultra-processed food intake to sharply higher prostate cancer risk.

Cutting only 280 calories a day may slow the inflammation that ages you

Even a small, sustained calorie cut moved an immune marker tied to aging.

Mouse offspring showed blood sugar changes from sweeteners they never tasted

A study found metabolic effects that outlived the exposure itself.

A single blood draw could now screen your body for more than 50 cancers at once

A new multi-cancer blood test is now available.

A one-time cell therapy left half of severe rheumatoid arthritis patients drug-free

In a Phase 1 trial with six patients, three reached medication-free remission.