Health & Wellness

Details: Written by: Sarina Gleason-Michigan State

This Is How Your Stress Turns Into Sickness
Certain types of stress interact with immune cells and can regulate how these cells respond to allergens, ultimately causing physical symptoms and disease, a new study suggests.

Details: Written by: Ben Hewitt, Ensia

Why Farmers Are Using Glyphosate To Kill Their Crops And What It Might Mean For You A common herbicide is ending up in our food, thanks to the growing practice of using it to dry crops in preparation for harvest. In addition to speeding crop drying, glyphosate can help synchronize ripening in plants at harvest time.

Details: Written by: Luke Walton-University of Warwick

Compound From Stinging Nettles Activates Reusable Cancer Treatment
Researchers have developed a new way to attack cancer: using a non-toxic dose of sodium formate—found in nettles and ants—to trigger an organic-osmium compound.

Details: Written by: Gerry Everding-Washington University In St. Louis

Why People With Sense Of Purpose Tend To Do Healthy Stuff People who have a sense of purpose in their life tend to make healthier lifestyle choices and report feeling better about their own health status, according to a new study.

Details: Written by: Marla Paul-Northwestern University

These Exercises Took 3 Years Off Of Aging Faces A 30-minute daily or alternate-day facial exercise program sustained over 20 weeks improved the facial appearance of middle-aged women, resulting in a younger appearance with fuller upper and lower cheeks, report researchers.

Details: Written by: Chönyi Taylor

What Are The Choices That Lead To Freedom From Pain? The mind of addiction goes like this: “So I need to stop playing computer games. I will take up marathon running instead.” Keeping away from the addiction does not stop the need for addiction and the need to look at the underlying pain or unhappiness...

Details: Written by: Hilary Smith

Herbs, Wilderness Time, And Other Ways To Help Yourself Throughout most of human history, there was no such thing as a psychiatrist or a refill of Ativan—and humans developed a thousand different ways of working with mental and emotional distress, many of which are just as effective today as they were in 612 BC.

Details: Written by: Marc David

A Slow Down Diet Success Story
In less than six weeks’ time working together, Sandy lost fifteen pounds and within four months she was a total of forty-five pounds lighter while eating more fat and exercising less. Her war with food was over, and she finally had what she wanted. Here’s what she did.

Details: Written by: Rafael Puyol, IE Business School

Experts Say These Two Things Are The Secret To Living A Longer Life “Blue zones” are areas of the world where people live considerably longer lives. On these territories we can find octogenarians, nonagenarians and many centenarians, and even some supercentenarians (people who have reached the age of 110).

Details: Written by: Bert Gambini, University at Buffalo

Women who’ve received funds to pay for an abortion but cannot access abortion in their home states travel roughly 10 times farther for the procedure than women who don’t have to go out of state, new research indicates.

Details: Written by: Megan Fellman-Northwestern University

A Little Bit Of Stress Keeps Aging Cells Robust A little stress can be good for cellular health, find molecular biologists.

Details: Written by: Tracie White-Stanford University

There May Be At Least 5 Kinds Of Depression And Anxiety Researchers have identified five new categories of mental illness that cut across current diagnoses of anxiety and depression.

Details: Written by: Tim Lucas-Duke University

The Wrong Location Can Offset The Health Benefits Of Walking Exposure to air pollution on city streets is enough to counter the health benefits of exercise in adults over 60, according to a new study.

Details: Written by: Texas A&M University

Does The Right Diet Depend On Your Genes? Research in animal models with different genetics shows that one diet really doesn’t fit all, and what works for some may not be best for others, according to a Texas A&M study published in the journal Genetics.

Details: Written by: Elisa Lottor

Epigenetics: Unraveling and Conquering Your DNA We are all born with the genes we inherit from our parents, but how and whether our body expresses these genes is gaining increasing attention in the emerging science of epigenetics.

Details: Written by: Geoffrey Hoppe, Linda Hoppe, and Adamus Saint-Germain

How To Open to Your Body's Natural Healing Capabilities Why does the body seem to betray you? It's a belief. You're fighting it mentally, but you haven't let yourself experience and feel what it's like to absolutely be in your body. Just as the Earth is the body of this planet, your biology is the body of your soul. If you're aging, if you look in the mirror and say...

Details: Written by: Adrian Baranchuk; Bryce Alexander and Sohaib Haseeb, Queen's University, Ontario

Is Drinking Wine Really Good For Your Heart? As the weekend approaches, people are opening wine bottles in bars and restaurants and homes around the world, ready to kick back and relax.

Details: Written by: Ziba Kashef-Yale University

How Very Low-calorie Diets Reverse Diabetes New research clarifies the mechanisms by which caloric restriction rapidly reverses type 2 diabetes. One in three Americans will develop type 2 diabetes by 2050, according to recent projections by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Reports indicate that the disease goes into remission in many patients who...

Details: Written by: Kim Eckart-University Of Washington

The More Air Pollution, The More The Mental Distress The higher the level of particulates in the air, a new study shows, the greater the indications of psychological distress. Where a person lives can make a big difference to health and quality of life. Every increase in pollution of 5 micrograms per cubic meter had the same effect as a 1.5-year loss in education.

Details: Written by: Nauman Naeem MD

Expanding the Healing Process: It's Not Just About You Healing is not just about you. It is about healing the whole of humanity, which is currently suffering in unprecedented ways. The burden of humanity’s suffering includes the growing gap between the world’s richest and poorest people, which leads to severe economic disparity around the globe and poverty.

Details: Written by: Trina Wood-UC Davis

New Evidence Says High-Fat Diet Extends Life And Strength A high-fat, or ketogenic, diet not only increases longevity, but also improves physical strength, according to new research with mice. Ketogenic diets have gained popularity for a variety of health benefit claims...