Wellness in the News for June, 2026
Sex in the morning vs. sex at night
According to research from clinical psychologist and sleep expert Dr. Michael Breus, most people are intimate right before falling asleep – between 10:30 and 11:30 p.m. – but their hormonal profile at that hour is literally the opposite of what makes for enjoyable sex.
This conclusion always made sense to me. It's the same for any type of exercise.
Exercise trains your brain just as much as your body
Researchers discovered that certain brain cells stay highly active even after a workout ends, and those lingering signals appear to help the body build endurance over time. In experiments with mice, blocking these brain cells prevented improvements in stamina, even when the animals still exercised normally.
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Kimchi flushes microplastics from the body
Microplastics and "forever chemicals" are the new food scares. Scientists in South Korea have discovered that a probiotic bacterium found in kimchi helps the body flush out tiny plastic particles before they can build up in organs. Myself, I eat kimchi because it tastes yummy.
In my medical and personal experience, I have found that the body is a self-cleaning organism, when adequate circulation gives the immune system a free hand to do what it is designed to do. A calm, lean, strong, and hungry body/mind provides high quality circulation and powerful immune factors.
The gene that one day will help humans regrow limbs
Scientists from Wake Forest University compared limb-regeneration in the salamander, the zebra fish, and mice. They demonstrated universal, unifying genetic programs that drive regeneration in very different types of organisms, raising strong expectations that in the next decade, humans will be able to regrow lost limbs using genetic engineering.
Everything good and useful can and will be restored.