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Feel better with evidence, not fads. This feed translates health and longevity research into practical insights on sleep, nutrition, movement and well-being.
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- Evidence-based takes on nutrition, sleep and fitness
- Longevity and well-being, minus the hype
- Small habits with an outsized impact
About Health on Plax
Health covers medicine, nutrition, fitness, sleep and public health, drawn from health and science publishers. Each story explains in a few lines what a new study or report found, with a link to the original.
Health news is where a headline can do the most harm if it is read too eagerly: a study in mice is not a treatment, and one result is not advice. Nothing on Plax replaces a doctor. Our guide to how vaccines work shows how we explain a medical idea in general terms.
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- How vaccines work: training the immune system without the disease
Vaccines teach the body to recognise a germ before it meets it. How they work, the main types, what herd immunity means, and how safety is checked.
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