Honest, science-grounded stories about body, mind and scent — written after a life I have built twice over. No marketing disguised as advice. No false positivity. Only what I have tested, lived through, or carefully researched myself.
“What you read shapes you. And what shapes you, you become.”
“Mum, you went through hell. And now you are truly you.”
— my son’s words, which began all of this
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A new article appears every Tuesday morning.
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You Are What You Repeatedly Do
One footstep makes no path; ten thousand do. From Socrates and Aristotle to modern neuroscience: how character is built — and why it’s never too late to change.
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Not weaker, made invisible
Aristotle believed women were ‘defective men’ — an unfinished version. For centuries that assumption shaped science. Not weaker,…
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Shampoo from 79 Cents to 300 Euros — What Does Your Hair Really Absorb in Five Minutes?
I once stood in the shower holding a €120 shampoo — with caviar extract. And I thought: does…
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Diets: What Really Works? The Honest Truth About Losing Weight — At Any Age
You didn’t fail — you fought your own biology. The honest science of losing weight at any age,…
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Two Skills, Two Lives
Some books you read; others read you. What Naval Ravikant taught me about money and happiness — and…
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Liquid Gold, or Liquid Marketing? What Science Really Knows About Olive Oil
Olive oil: liquid gold or clever marketing? What PREDIMED, oleocanthal and the fraud figures really tell us —…
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What Is Money, Really?
I once stood holding my life savings as they became worthless in a matter of weeks — first…
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