Jesper Bengtson

How eating chia seeds every day can affect your blood pressure and gut

A 2024 review of 10 trials points to modest but real cardiometabolic gains.

How often you exercise matters more for mental health than how hard you push

A one-year study in Norway suggests showing up beats going hard.

7 signs your body may be running low on vitamin B12, and who is most at risk

Early symptoms often look like normal aging. Four groups face the highest risk.

Fathers who take this common epilepsy drug before conception may not raise their child’s autism risk

A Taiwan study of 2.5 million births finds no autism, ADHD or birth defect link when fathers took valproate.

Limiting when you eat each day may quietly lower your blood pressure over time

Eleven randomized trials tie a shorter daily eating window to modest but consistent blood pressure drops.

Surviving Hodgkin lymphoma may leave you at double the long-term mortality risk, even years later

New MD Anderson research finds five-year survivors still die at roughly twice the expected rate.