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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 6h

Your blood sugar spikes after a meal, and the bigger the spike, the more damage it can do to your arteries.

Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 10h

Rose oil on your clothes for a month increased grey matter in a memory region of the brain. Researchers in Japan scanned the brains of 50 healthy women before and after a simple 4-week experiment.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most people struggle with intermittent fasting. Not because it doesn't work, but because they start it the wrong way.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you want to lower your cancer risk, start with these five everyday exposures. They are not rare. They affect almost everyone, and most people underestimate how much they add up.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Most people train to burn fat. But the timing of your workout may change whether your body actually reaches for stored fat. Training fed and training fasted are not the same thing.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Your white LED bulbs may be harming your health more than you realise. Here's why, and what to do about it.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If your last blood test came back with high cholesterol, I would bet your doctor mentioned eating healthier, moving more, and maybe a statin.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is unbelievable. For over 25 years we were told glyphosate (Roundup) was safe to consume. Turns out that "safety" was based on a lie.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your risk of Alzheimer's could jump by up to 69% if your blood sugar spikes after meals. That's what a huge UK Biobank study involving over 350,000 people found.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you're worried about Alzheimer's, this might surprise you. Your morning coffee could be doing more than waking you up.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Part of your brain starts shrinking in your 30s. It's called the hippocampus, and it's responsible for memory. It naturally shrinks by around 2% a year as you age.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're trying to reverse insulin resistance, this is one of the most important shifts to understand.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Your insulin sensitivity is not fixed. It responds to what you do today.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

19 women recently diagnosed with breast cancer, none yet started treatment.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I will never buy a standard white LED bulb for my home again, and you shouldn't either. Here's why.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Statins aren't the only way to lower LDL cholesterol. Your body already has a built-in system for clearing it out. You just need to know how to switch it on.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Most people think fasting burns fat. It does.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Buying tuna because you think it's a high-protein brain food? Here's why that's a mistake, and what to choose instead.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Two common garden plants have been shown to selectively destroy cancer cells in the lab, while leaving healthy cells largely untouched.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Want a flatter stomach? Forget the sit ups.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Most people think walking doesn't do much. They're wrong.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Your skin is talking. Is anyone listening? Most people think insulin resistance is silent until a blood test flags it. It isn't.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You just came back from the doctor with a high cholesterol reading… Your doctor handed you the "eat healthier, move more" advice, maybe mentions a statin, and moves on.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What predicts how long you'll live better than your diet, your sleep, or even your biological age? It's not a supplement. It's not a blood test. And it's completely free to improve.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One minute of vigorous exercise could give you some of the same health benefits as ninety four minutes of light activity.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Garlic could be one of the most underrated tools for insulin resistance. A brand new 2026 study in mice found something surprising. Garlic compounds extended lifespan by around 11 percent, while also improving insulin sensitivity, reducing fatty liver, and lowering inflammation.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Insulin resistance is increasing your cancer risk. Here's the mechanism behind it and how to reduce it:

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dark toast hides a secret. Not a good one…

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you have high blood pressure, here's something your doctor probably hasn't told you. There are three levers you can pull, and the third one is likely the real driver behind the whole thing.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Every day, you could be rewinding your brain's age by up to eleven years. Sounds unbelievable. But a long-term study found exactly that.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Insulin resistance isn't something you fix with willpower. It's something you can fix with timing. Here are the 3 changes that move the needle, in order of impact:

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A small handful of nuts a day could add years to your life. A major analysis tracking over 800,000 people found that those with the highest nut intake had a 19% lower risk of dying from any cause, and a 19% lower risk of cardiovascular disease, compared to those who rarely ate nuts.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You cannot control the air you breathe. But you can influence how well your body deals with it. In a randomised, placebo-controlled trial, researchers gave nearly 300 adults living in a heavily polluted region of China a daily broccoli sprout drink for 12 weeks. The results:

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you’ve had a heart attack, or heart disease runs in your family, this is worth knowing. A clinical trial found that personalising vitamin D dosing, rather than giving everyone the same standard dose, was linked to a dramatic drop in second heart attacks. Here’s what they did:

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you’re taking omega-3 for your brain, the dose matters more than the fact you’re taking it at all. A 2025 systematic review pooled 58 randomised controlled trials and ran a full dose-response analysis to work out exactly how much omega-3 actually shifts cognitive performance in adults.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you’re not doing this several times a week, you’re missing one of the most powerful health interventions there is. The sauna is one of the best studied longevity habits around. A 20 year Finnish cohort followed over 2,300 men, and the results are hard to ignore.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Stop spraying perfume or aftershave directly onto your neck. I look at the biological pathways that affect how fast we age, and this is one habit I cut out years ago. Feel the skin where you normally spray. Thin, warm, and right next to two problem areas: your airway and your thyroid.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Here’s why: as amyloid plaques form, they act like a sponge. They trap lithium and starve the rest of the brain of it. The team tested this by cutting lithium from the diet of mice. The result: Alzheimer’s-like memory loss and plaque buildup, almost on cue.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Stop making this mistake with your cocoa. One word on the packet is the difference between one of the world's most powerful superfoods and just brown powder with a chocolatey taste. Real, unprocessed cocoa earns its superfood status.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Everyone assumes it’s raspberries, strawberries or blackberries. Not even close. The fruit richest in polyphenols isn’t any of the “usual suspects” on your supermarket shelf.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Most people are washing their fruit and veg wrong. Here's what actually removes pesticide residues, ranked from basic to expert level, plus the one mistake to avoid.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Your coffee could be quietly ageing you faster or slower, and it has nothing to do with the beans. It's how you brew it. Researchers tracked 49,414 UK adults and tested their biological age three separate ways: telomere length, an epigenetic ageing clock, and a clinical biomarker score.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There's a supplement that gets MORE effective the older you get. Most things work against you with age. This one works harder for you. It's creatine. And there are three mechanisms behind it that are genuinely worth knowing, because at least one of them is almost certainly relevant to you.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Scientists just found a way to lose up to 400 calories a day, without moving a muscle. No cardio. No injections. Just a different plate of food. Here's how: Researchers locked healthy adults in a metabolic ward. Every calorie in, every calorie out, measured to the gram.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The leg of a 30-year-old who lifts weights. Vs This is the leg of a 30-year-old who doesn't. But, the shocking part: The leg of a 70-year-old who lifts weights. Vs The leg of a 70-year-old who doesn't.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

𝟯𝟬 𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀. 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴. The last one is quietly sabotaging more people's results than everything else on this list combined.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is the real deal! It doesn't look like much, but this small gherkin holds the nutritional secret sauce our ancestors all lived by, but that we have nearly all forgotten. Because, this isn't just any old gherkin.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m sorry to be the one to break this to you but those electrolyte sachets you’re paying thirty pounds a month for? There probably not doing much for you unless you fall into one of 4 specific scenarios.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is one of the most powerful superfoods on Earth. But, I bet you’ve never heard of it as we’ve nearly completely forgotten about this in the UK. It’s so easy to grow and produces these dark-coloured See all of that almost black colour? That’s the anthocyanin content.

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Zib Atkins @ayuswellness.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Scientists found that taking this mineral increased grey matter in the brain after just 10 weeks. Your brain needs it to function properly, and new research shows it disappears years before Alzheimer’s symptoms even start. It’s called lithium. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature

Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the physiological level...

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