A patient came in recently having replaced her entire skincare routine over six months. Not because the products weren’t working — they were. She replaced them because she’d read extensively about “toxic” ingredients and had become concerned that her retinoid and her SPF contained things that were harmful. Her new routine contained none of those things. It also contained nothing that was likely to produce the results she was looking […]

Every year or so, a new dietary framework arrives with complete confidence. For a while it’s intermittent fasting. Then it’s carnivore. Then it’s plant-based plus supplements. Then it’s some version of the Mediterranean diet, but specifically Mediterranean-from-before-industrialisation, and please mind the olive oil provenance. I read these things as they arrive. Professionally, I have to. And what I find, consistently, is that the confidence is always higher than the evidence […]

Singapore sits at 1.3 degrees north of the equator. We have no winter. No meaningful cloud cover that persists for more than a day. UV index above 6 — the level at which protective measures are recommended — is the norm here, not the exception. We reach UV index 12 and above on clear days, which is classified as extreme. This is not new information. What is worth examining is […]