Footnotes
Everything published so far, newest first. 7 pieces, each one a closer look at something usually passed over.
2026
- Why Your Calves Matter More to Circulation Than You ThinkA closer look at the calf-muscle pump, prolonged sitting, swelling, and why "poor circulation" can mean very different things.
- Why Your Tonsils Have HolesTonsil crypts are normal architecture, not damage — and the small white lumps that come out of them are usually the least interesting thing about them.
- Tight Muscles Don't Always Need More StretchingThe feeling of tightness and the mechanical property of shortness are not the same thing, and treating one as the other explains a lot of frustrating hamstrings.
- What Dry Mouth Is Doing When You're Not Paying AttentionSaliva is a slow, continuous maintenance system for the mouth. Turning it down has consequences that show up months later, in places nobody connects to it.
- Can You Actually "Activate" a Muscle?The word does real work in a gym and almost none in a physiology textbook. Sorting out which claim is being made makes the advice much easier to evaluate.
- When Elevating Your Legs Helps, and When It Might NotElevation is a mechanical intervention with a mechanical logic. Knowing what it is actually doing tells you when it is the right move and when it is the wrong one.
- Berberine and Biofilms: Interesting Biology, Bigger QuestionsA compound with genuinely interesting laboratory behaviour, a difficult pharmacokinetic problem, and a marketing story that has outrun both.