What are the benefits of biological dentistry?

In January 2026 a maxillofacial professor at Goethe University Frankfurt published a paper with the two men most associated with the claim that hidden holes in the jawbone make people ill. It reported that something does remain in the socket after a tooth comes out. It then declined to call that something a disease. Neither…

ByJon LipseySeptember 2, 20260Comments

HEALTH Great minds

Dr Dominik Nischwitz on biological dentistry and the backlash

“I got attacked every single time from the podium,” says Dr Dominik Nischwitz, recalling how conventional dentists responded to his early conference lectures. “If they’d had tomatoes, they probably would have thrown them at me. Or spat at me.” That was the price Nischwitz, author of It’s All in Your Mouth, founder of DNA Health…

ByJon LipseySeptember 2, 20260Comments

HEALTH

XPRIZE Healthspan: the $81m longevity prize that convinced its own doubters

“I never thought we would actually get a winner,” says Dr Jamie Justice, Executive Vice President of Health at XPRIZE. She is talking about XPRIZE Healthspan, the project she oversees. It is a seven-year, $101 million global competition to develop therapies that restore the function people lose as they age. To win, a team has…

ByJon LipseyAugust 24, 20260Comments

HEALTH Investigation

Are peptides safe and legal? What the FDA ruling means in the US and UK

Updated 10 August 2026. Regulatory status current as of this date. Most approved peptide medicines are legal when prescribed appropriately. But wellness and lifestyle peptides such as BPC-157, TB-500 and MOTS-c remain unapproved and unproven; the FDA’s July 2026 advisory vote did not make them approved or immediately legal to compound. UK rules depend partly…

ByJon LipseyAugust 10, 20260Comments

HEALTH Vanguard

The longevity network that started in a pub, not a lab

Mo Elzek does not think that, in the coming years, you will be able to pop a magic pill and decide what age you want to be. He does, however, think that a cocktail of targeted rejuvenation therapies could have a profound impact on your healthspan and lifespan. That distinction, borne out of deep understanding…

ByJon LipseyAugust 7, 20260Comments

HEALTH Opinion

Christopher Snowdon: healthy lifestyles are a burden on taxpayers

If you work in health, Christopher Snowdon is supposed to be the enemy. He defends smokers, opposes minimum pricing on alcohol and argues against sugar taxes. He thinks the wellness industry is "mostly a force for bad" and that nutritional epidemiology, the science underpinning nearly everything you have ever been told about food, is a…

ByJon LipseyAugust 6, 20260Comments

HEALTH

Top longevity influencers and researchers to follow

Seven of the 100 people ranked in the Unfiltered Longevity 100 for 2026 publish regularly for a general audience, such as a podcast, a newsletter or both. They are Peter Diamandis, Mark Hyman, Bryan Johnson, Matt Kaeberlein, Andrew Huberman, David Sinclair and Phil Newman. Three of them are working scientists and four are not. Four…

ByJon LipseyAugust 5, 20260Comments

HEALTH

Who are the most credible voices in longevity?

The most credible voices in longevity are mostly not the most visible ones. Of the 100 people ranked in the Unfiltered Longevity 100 for 2026, 38 are working scientists whose standing rests on peer-reviewed output, institutional position and replication record rather than on audience. They are listed in full below. Credibility and reach are close…

ByJon LipseyAugust 5, 20260Comments

HEALTH Explainer

Who is Dr Dominik Nischwitz?

Dr Dominik Nischwitz is a German dentist based in Tübingen. He founded the Biodentistry Global Standard, a certification and training programme for what he calls biological dentistry 3.0, and he is among the most widely known international advocates of ceramic dental implants and of treating the mouth as an upstream factor in whole-body health. His…

ByJon LipseyAugust 2, 20260Comments

HEALTH

Biological dentistry treatments compared

Biological dentistry covers treatments with varying levels of evidence behind them. Metal-free fillings are ordinary restorative dentistry. Ceramic implants have clinical guideline recognition. Cavitation surgery has no professional body endorsement, though the research on the underlying condition has moved recently. The table below sets each treatment against its conventional equivalent. Treatment comparison TreatmentConventional equivalentWhat the…

ByJon LipseyAugust 2, 20260Comments

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