Few endurance feats carry the mystique of a marathon. Cross that finish line after 26.2 miles and you’ve asked your body to do something it’s not casually built for — sustained, near-maximal effort hour after hour, with your heart laboring at the center of it. That invites a question worth sitting with: what does…
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Two people eat the same breakfast. In one, it’s fully processed and out within 14 hours. In the other, it sits inside the colon for over five days, fermenting, irritating the gut lining, and reshaping their metabolism. New research shows this difference may matter more than what they actually ate. The speed at which…
(NELFUND. Photo by Student Loan Portal) A member of the Board of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Umar Faruk-Lawal, has said the Federal Government’s student loan programme is helping to break financial barriers that have long prevented many Nigerians from accessing higher education. He disclosed that over ₦206 billion has been disbursed by…
For several years, I recommended the ketogenic diet as a way to optimize your metabolic and mitochondrial health. Restricting carbohydrates and shifting the body to rely on fat for fuel seemed, at the time, to be a sound strategy for stabilizing blood sugar and enhancing endurance. Backed by a growing body of published research,…
A new study has confirmed that the RTS,S malaria vaccine significantly reduced child deaths in the first three African countries to deploy it. According to a press release by the World Health Organisation on Friday, an estimated one in eight child deaths were averted among eligible recipients in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi over four years,…
The immune cells patrolling your body right now are built from the fats you ate this week. And according to a March 2026 study in Nature, the wrong fats can cause those cells to literally self-destruct — their membranes rupturing from the inside out.1 In fact, researchers uncovered a direct mechanism linking everyday food choices…
Wizkid From the charts to the streets, here are 30 Wizkid tracks that made waves in numbers and in hearts Introduction Wizkid, also known as Starboy, has spent more than a decade at the forefront of the Afrobeats movement, redefining its sound and taking it to global stages. Born Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun in Surulere, Lagos,…
Pelvic discomfort, bladder leaks, and chronic constipation are signs your body is asking for help. Yet millions of women brush these symptoms aside, assuming they’re just part of aging or the aftermath of childbirth. That silence creates a major gap in care, leaving many to suffer needlessly for years without realizing there’s a name for…
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