Fibromyalgia has long been one of medicine’s most frustrating puzzles: widespread pain, poor sleep, fatigue, “fibro fog,” and often a trail of digestive or allergy-like symptoms—yet no single test that explains it all. A new narrative review asks whether, for a subset...

Saffron is already one of the world’s most coveted spices: delicate red threads with a price to match, prized in cooking for colour, aroma and a slightly honeyed bitterness. It has also, increasingly, become a serious subject for mental-health researchers. A new...

For most people living with chronic migraine, glucose metabolism and diet are not part of the conversation in clinical management. Yet a new study suggests that metabolic asessment is important and may point towards biological features that could help personalise...

Glucosamine, the familiar joint-health supplement, has become an unexpected focus of Alzheimer’s research. A new Nature Metabolism paper suggests that in brains already affected by Alzheimer’s-like disease, glucosamine may feed an abnormal metabolic process and worsen...

What if food science has been asking too small a question? For more than a century, nutrition has largely treated food as a ledger of calories, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. That approach has saved lives and remains indispensable. But a provocative new...

Menopause is often discussed as a list of familiar complaints: poor sleep, low mood, brain fog, fatigue, changing weight and, later, worries about bone health. But a new case report in the Journal of the American Nutrition Association argues that the more useful...

Modern breast cancer medicine has become remarkably good at confronting the tumour itself. Diagnosis is sharper, surgery more precise, drugs more targeted and survival rates higher. Yet for many women, the treatment journey still leaves a conspicuous gap: who is...