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The Supplement Industry Hit $74 Billion — And the Evidence Gap Is Getting Harder to Ignore

US supplement sales reached $74.15 billion in 2025, with projections targeting $100 billion by 2029. But a new wave of decentralized clinical trials is finally closing the gap between consumer demand and scientific proof.

Jun 28, 2026·2 min read
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Molecular Protein Interactions and Predictive Pathways as Biomarkers for Enhancing Volleyball Performance: A Narrative Review

Understanding molecular protein interactions offers promising long-term health benefits for volleyball players by serving as biomarkers that enable predictions of metabolic status, inflammation, injury risk, and recovery potential. This review aims t...

Jul 6, 2026·2 min read
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Mechanisms Underlying Burning Mouth Syndrome and Occlusal Dysesthesia: Shared and Distinct Pathways of Oral Sensory Dysregulation

Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) and occlusal dysesthesia (OD) are chronic oral sensory disorders that present without evident local pathology yet frequently cause substantial diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in oral medicine practice. Although both...

Jul 6, 2026·1 min read
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New Trial: Feasibility of Breathwork Intervention With Older Adults After Knee Surgery

Postoperative complications after surgical procedures, including following total knee arthroplasty (TKA), have a negative impact on the health and well-being of surgical patients. Older adults (≥65 years) are particularly vulnerable to postoperative...

Jul 6, 2026·1 min read
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Apollo Neuro — Can a Vibrating Wristband Actually Shift Your Nervous System?

Apollo sells a wearable that delivers gentle vibrations to improve HRV, sleep, and stress resilience. They call it 'vagal toning' — but it doesn't actually stimulate the vagus nerve. NORM scored them 62/100. Here's what the data shows and what the marketing skips.

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📱 Recovery

Curable App — Can Software Rewire Chronic Pain Through Pain Neuroscience Education?

Curable is a mobile app that applies pain neuroscience education and somatic tracking to chronic pain. No drugs, no devices — just a structured program to change how your brain processes pain signals.

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The Ice Sack™ — A Dry Cold System for Nervous System Training

Full-body cold exposure without water, without a tub, without the setup. We apply the same evidence standard to our own product that we apply to everyone else's.

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Mechanisms Underlying Burning Mouth Syndrome and Occlusal Dysesthesia: Shared and Distinct Pathways of Oral Sensory Dysregulation

Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) and occlusal dysesthesia (OD) are chronic oral sensory disorders that present without evident local pathology yet frequently cause substantial diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in oral medicine practice. Although both...

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Comparative response patterns and tolerability of high-frequency rTMS in unipolar versus bipolar depression: a retrospective naturalistic study

This retrospective naturalistic study compared response patterns and tolerability of high-frequency left-DLPFC repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar depressive disorder (BD) u...

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Cross-cultural translation, adaptation, and validation of the Chinese versions of the athlete fear avoidance questionnaire and fear of return to sport scale

Sports injuries not only impose periods of physical rest, but they can also provoke negative psychological responses, particularly fear, that can delay return to sport (RTS) and elevate reinjury risk. Although various instruments, including the Athle...

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