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Lakshan Weeraratne

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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Lakshan Weeraratne

    What Your Immune System Actually Needs Before Cold and Flu Season - AOL (opens the original)

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    In a study where volunteers were exposed to a cold virus, those sleeping under six hours a night were more than four times as likely to get sick as those sleeping over seven. That was after controlling for age, stress, and health. Nothing in a capsule has an effect that size. If you are choosing between a 5 a.m. workout on five hours of sleep and the workout at lunch, take the sleep. A study tracking roughly 1,000 adults through fall and winter found that people who exercised aerobically five or

  2. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Lakshan Weeraratne

    The Early Signs of Hair Loss Most Men Miss, and What Actually Works - AOL (opens the original)

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    Most men have the same realization in the same place: in the bathroom, spotting a widening part or a hairline that has quietly moved. By then, according to Dr. Claudia Kim, they may already be playing catch-up. “Many men come in when the change is already visible,” says Kim, a board-certified cosmetic surgeon and chief medical officer at New Look New Life Cosmetic Surgery, “but the process may have started much earlier.” Kim’s preservation-first outlook is partly personal. A car accident at 16 l

  3. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Lakshan Weeraratne

    Why Does One Bad Night of Sleep Feel So Much Worse After 30? - AOL (opens the original)

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    After roughly 30, sleep debt accumulates faster and clears more slowly, and your capacity to bounce back from a rough night declines. This is a change in your body, not a failure of discipline, which is worth saying plainly because a lot of people quietly blame themselves for it. You get less deep sleep. From your late 20s onward, slow wave sleep, where most physical recovery and growth hormone release happen, steadily declines. A normal night is less restorative than it was at 22, so a bad nigh

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Lakshan Weeraratne

    A Trainer's 3 Label Checks for Spotting Supplements With Hidden Drugs - AOL (opens the original)

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    On Sept. 4 the FDA warned consumers not to use ZUBB, a weight loss supplement, after lab testing found sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, nowhere on the label. Earlier testing of another product, Esbelta Intense Loss, found four hidden pharmaceuticals, including the withdrawn weight loss drug sibutramine. This is not rare. A 2018 analysis in JAMA Network Open counted 776 adulterated supplements in FDA records over a decade. Of those, 317 were sold for weight loss, and sibutramine was i

  5. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Lakshan Weeraratne

    What 10 Years of Sitting at a Desk Job Does to Your Body - AOL (opens the original)

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    Muscles and posture. Hip flexors tighten, glutes and core weaken, and shoulders round forward, producing the chronic back, neck, and shoulder pain and the posture that defines desk work. Metabolism. Sitting drops calorie burn to roughly one per minute, and over years prolonged sitting drives insulin resistance, impairs how you process fats and sugars, and raises the risk of weight gain and type 2 diabetes. Cardiovascular risk. Prolonged sitting is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular di

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