The Purest Journal
Notes on everyday well-being
Clear, practical reads on skin, gut health, energy, weight and women's health, written for life in Singapore.
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Recipes
Garlic Fried Rice (Rice Cooker Hack)
Day 2 of lazy rice cooker hacks. The easiest garlic fried rice without adding too much oil. If you do not have time, do this 🧄🍚
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Skin & hair
Lymphatic Drainage and Face Sculpting: What's Real and What's Marketing
Facial massage really does de-puff — the mechanism is sound. But 'sculpting' and 'detoxing' claim something the evidence doesn't support. Here's the line between them.
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Women's health
Seed Cycling: Does It Actually Balance Your Hormones?
Seed cycling is everywhere on wellness feeds. The seeds are genuinely nutritious — but the timing protocol has very little evidence behind it. Here's the honest...
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Women's health
When Period Pain Isn't Normal: Endometriosis and the 2026 Guidance Shift
Endometriosis has historically taken 4 to 11 years to diagnose. New clinical guidance aims to change that — and it starts with taking pain seriously.
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Recipes
Claypot Chicken Rice, Rice Cooker Hack
Mum's claypot rice - our family favourite whenever everyone asks what's for dinner. Making it the lazy way, in the rice cooker. Not super oily but...
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Women's health
Sleep in Perimenopause: Why It Falls Apart in Your 40s and What May Help
Waking at 3am in your 40s? How swinging estrogen and falling progesterone disrupt perimenopause sleep, plus gentle, evidence-aware ways to support rest.
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Sea Moss: What's Actually in the Trending Gel — and Do You Need It?
Sea moss is all over your feed, but does it live up to the hype? What the evidence shows, the "92 minerals" myth, and an important...
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Gut health
Perimenopause and Your Digestion: What Changes and What's Still Unproven
Bloating and changed bowel habits are common in the 40s, and the estrobolome is having a marketing moment. Here is what is genuinely established about perimenopause...
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Energy & sleep
Shift Work, Red-Eyes and Late Nights: How Irregular Hours Affect Your Body
Nurses, cabin crew, F&B staff and anyone on rotating shifts: circadian disruption affects appetite, cycle regularity and more. What the evidence shows, and the practical strategies...
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Gut health
Histamine Intolerance: What's Actually Established, and What Isn't
Low-histamine diets and DAO tests are everywhere online. But histamine intolerance is still a working hypothesis rather than a validated diagnosis, and long elimination diets carry...
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Recipes
The Easiest Collagen Herbal Chicken Soup
If you love grandma's herbal chicken soup, this one is for you. All the herbs, none of the standing over the stove 🥣
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Energy & sleep
Functional Mushrooms (Lion's Mane, Reishi, Cordyceps): Hype or Help?
Lion's mane, reishi and cordyceps are everywhere. Here's what the evidence actually shows for focus, stress and energy, and how to set expectations.
