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NutritionHuman trialCreatine

Creatine Beyond Muscle: Cheap Supplement or Overextended Brain Hack?

Creatine is one of the rare supplements where the baseline evidence is not flimsy. That makes the overclaim risk more interesting: strong sports-nutrition evidence is now being stretched into cognition, depression, aging, women’s health, sleep deprivation, and neuroprotection.

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Creatine cognition reviewCreatine health and disease reviewCreatine memory meta-analysis

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Consumer HealthEmerging evidence

Red Light Therapy: Mitochondrial Medicine or Expensive Lamp Culture?

Red and near-infrared light claims range from skin and pain to hair growth, testosterone, thyroid, fat loss, and brain performance. The evidence is not one category. Dose, wavelength, distance, tissue depth, and outcome decide whether the claim is medicine, beauty tech, rehab tool, or expensive lamp culture.

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Studies: 6
Claims: 4

LED dermatology RCT reviewLLLT hair-loss reviewLLLT neck pain meta-analysis

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NeurodegenerationConfirmed

EU Approved Cenrifki for a Difficult-to-Treat Form of Progressive MS

Sanofi's Cenrifki/tolebrutinib was approved in the EU for secondary progressive multiple sclerosis without recent relapses, where disability can worsen even without flare-ups.

Why now

The approval targets disability progression in a form of MS where obvious relapses may have stopped.

Overclaim risk: medium
Primary source: Trade news
Published: Jun 24, 2026

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