Does feeling mildly cold make us eat more?

And if so, do we burn enough extra calories to make up for it?

A new intervention study sought to answer these questions.

🧵 Researchers had 47 participants each spend four separate 24-hour periods in a metabolic chamber - a specialized room that precisely measures energy expenditure.

How long does it really take to form a new habit?

New research challenges the popular '"21-day rule" and reveals the actual science of habit formation.

Let me break down the findings from this month's systematic review and meta-analysis: 🧵 You've probably heard it takes 21 days to form a new habit.

This idea traces back to Maxwell Maltz's observation, in 1960, that plastic surgery patients took ~21 days to adjust to their new appearance - an observation that morphed into conventional wisdom about habit formation.

THREAD on ' #NAD+ to assess health in aging humans'
Authored by Georges Janssens of Amsterdam University Medical Center, and colleagues. (1/12) Discovered over 100 years ago as the electron carrier for redox enzymes, and later revealed as a signaling hub, NAD+ has received a surge of attention in the last decades in the aging research field . (2/12)

How nighttime blood pressure (BP) readings may be more important than daytime (Journal, Circulation)
healthline.com/health-news/ho… (1/13) People experiencing high BP while sleeping - nocturnal hypertension - more likely to experience heart failure + other forms of CVD. (2/13)