New writing on the frontier of medicine and healing.

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Six pillars, and everything underneath them.

The pillars are how we organise the newsroom. The topics and tags below are how the reporting actually connects — a single ibogaine piece belongs to psychedelic therapies, addiction treatment, and medical travel at once.

The six pillars

i.

Medical Breakthroughs

New research, emerging treatments, and clinical advances as they move from trial to practice.

4 pieces

We cover new research the way a careful clinician reads it: mechanism first, then trial design, then effect size, then who was actually studied.

ii.

Alternative Medicine

Naturopathic, functional, and integrative approaches examined on their own terms.

6 pieces

Naturopathic, functional, and integrative practice is where a great deal of real patient experience lives and where a great deal of unearned confidence lives too.

iii.

Energy & Vibrational Healing

Energy work, frequency and sound therapy, light — what is measured and what is claimed.

2 pieces

Energy work, sound, frequency, and light span everything from measurable photobiomodulation to claims with no physical basis.

iv.

Psychedelic Therapies

Psilocybin, ketamine, ibogaine and MDMA: mechanism, trial status, and honest limits.

3 pieces

Psilocybin, ketamine, MDMA, and ibogaine are moving through regulatory pipelines at very different speeds, under very different safety profiles.

v.

Chronic & Complex Illness

Long-form reporting on Lyme, autoimmunity, long COVID, and contested diagnoses.

2 pieces

Contested and complex illness — Lyme, autoimmunity, long COVID, ME/CFS — is where patients are most often failed and most often sold to.

vi.

Clinics & Destinations

Profiles of the treatment centers doing frontier and integrative work, and how they operate.

4 pieces

Clinic reporting is the easiest place to slide into either advertising or ridicule.

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