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The Dirt on Clean Beauty | Psychedelic medicines are expanding into the public consciousness | A Drug to Treat Aging May Not Be a Pipe Dream | Movano’s new smart ring is focused on women’s health
The Dirt on Clean Beauty
More and more products promise “clean beauty,” along with plumper lips and fewer wrinkles. But what does that actually mean? Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Give this article Give this article Give this article New Year, new you.
Psychedelic medicines are expanding into the public consciousness
The coming year will see a number of milestones in the emerging era of psychedelic medicines. The recreational drug mdma will complete a second phase-3 trial for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). If this trial confirms the findings of the first, from 2021, then in 2023 mdma will be considered by America’s Food and Drug Administration for approval. maps, a public-benefit corporation, has so far shown that three doses of mdma, along with a course of therapy over 18 weeks, can deliver a significant reduction in the symptoms of ptsd.
A Drug to Treat Aging May Not Be a Pipe Dream
Life expectancy in the best-performing countries has been increasing by three months per year every year since the early 1800s. Throughout most of human history, you had a roughly 50–50 chance of making it into your twenties, mainly due to deaths from infectious diseases and accidents. Thanks to medical advances, we’ve gradually found ways to avoid and treat such causes of death; the end result is perhaps humanity’s greatest ever achievement—we’ve literally doubled what it means to be human, increasing lifespans from 40 to 80 years. On the other hand, this has allowed one scourge to rise above all the others to become the world’s largest cause of death: aging.
Movano’s new smart ring is focused on women’s health
Movano’s getting a week’s jump on what might well prove a banner CES for the smart ring. Today the Bay Area-based firm debuted Evie, a smart ring focused on women’s health set to hit the market later next year. The device capitalizes on the recent popularity of the unobtrusive form factor, led by the likes of Oura and Circular.
