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Please do not rely on drinking your own urine if you are lost. It is basically the equivalent of drinking from the bin.

Studies show that refugees often have gut microbiomes that look different from those of people who have not experienced displacement.

A large study found a small but consistent dip in people’s wellbeing in the run-up to Christmas. One psychological process that often shows up under this pressure is worry.

The community of trillions of microbes living in your digestive tract, known as the gut microbiome, plays a powerful role in regulating sleep quality, mood and overall wellbeing.

If you often wake a few minutes before your alarm and feel alert and rested, it’s a sign your circadian rhythm is finely tuned. Your body clock has learned to anticipate your routine and help you transition smoothly from sleep to wakefulness.

Among women bodybuilders, nearly one in six, report using steroids, and rates among women in strength sports or recreational lifting communities are also markedly higher than in the general woman population.

This “internet of beings” could be the third and ultimate phase of the internet’s evolution. After linking computers in the first phase and everyday objects in the second, global information systems would now connect directly to our organs.

Instead, it recommended targeted screening every two years for a small proportion of men – those aged 45 to 61 years with a confirmed BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation.

Researchers verified that many products marketed as “mineral-only” rely on a broad palette of chemicals, not only to make them nicer to use but also to boost their sun protection factor (SPF) rating.

When men drink alcohol, it can cause both direct and indirect harm to children. On the one hand, men can jeopardise the safety and well-being of their children by making them targets of, or witnesses to, their own violence.

The debate had been building for decades. The first successful kidney transplant in 1954 showed that replacing organs was possible. Since then, surgeons have transplanted hearts, lungs and most recently, hands. Some surgeons saw a natural progression: “a face is just like a hand”, they argued.

There are critical gaps in the NTEP that need to be fixed to make the country free from the dreaded bacterial disease.