In this week’s Top Ten, we examine painkillers’ shortcomings with women, hunt longevity clues from 400-year-old sharks ... and ask: Is diabetes reversible? Plus, White Lotus travel inspirations; best brain food; the skeptic who saved early Christianity. 

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More than 830 million people have diabetes—a chronic, debilitating disease. But experts say it’s possible to recover with a few proven lifestyle changes. What changes? 

Related: 'Brain food' is real. Here what to eat.

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Inspired by The White Lotus, that TV series that turbocharged tourism to Hawaii and Sicily its first two seasons and has now moved to Southeast Asia? Here are a few Thai islands to discover.

Related: This Southeast Asian country has become an unlikely center for ... great cheese.

Today’s Soundtrack: Lush Life, Samara Joy

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