I spent years in this profession thinking about ageing as a problem to be solved. Not consciously, and not in those terms — but in practice, that was the frame. Every patient who came in presented a version of the ageing problem, and my role was to identify the problem’s components and address them with appropriate tools. That is a reasonable clinical model. The shift came gradually. It had something […]

Your face can reveal more than fatigue. Dr Low Chai Ling explores the biology behind the tired face, from sleep and cortisol to body geometry, regeneration and muscle health.

“Just listen to your body.” I hear this advice given constantly — by trainers, by wellness influencers, by well-meaning friends, occasionally by physicians who should know better. It sounds like wisdom. It sounds like the antidote to the over-medicalised, over-quantified approach to health. It is, in most situations, genuinely unhelpful. And in some situations, it is dangerous. The problem with body-listening as a primary health strategy The body is an […]