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When applied blindly, resilience can do real harm to our health and our ability to change broken systems.
The HuffPost co-founder is now focusing on AI and health — but she’s keeping an eye on agency and human nature.
In "The Microbiome Master Key," Brett and Jessica Finlay argue that we need to stop waging war on all germs and start working with the microbes that make us who we are.
A CDC survey suggests America’s obesity rate may be falling.
Fixing chronic pain in the body may sometimes require a treatment focused on the brain.
The hangover "cures" on the market don't work. A new hydrogel does.
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
If you eat a diet full of refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets, there's a good chance you have too much insulin.
Western societies seem to be getting inflammation achingly wrong.
People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
A new hypothesis accuses the simple sugar of wrecking energy metabolism.
Capsaicin is already used to treat nerve pain. Early research hints it could do more.
Chronic pain is often driven by brain processes that can be reprogrammed.
Today's popular weight-loss drugs could soon be joined by brain stimulation and gene therapies.
Whether you’re a leader looking to ramp up team output or just trying to improve your skill set, hard work alone is not enough.
"They decreased their drinking to the point that it was so low we didn’t record a blood-alcohol level."
Retatrutide, Eli Lilly's innovative "triple g" drug, is setting new standards in the fight against obesity.
And it seems to work alongside popular weight-loss medications, like Ozempic.
Striking differences in the composition of the gut microbiome suggest that fermented food could help those suffering from anorexia.
Amyloid plaque can build up in body organs other than the brain. The resulting diseases — AL amyloidosis, ATTR amyloidosis and more — cause much suffering.
A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.
The Apple Watch could soon take the pain out of monitoring blood sugar levels.
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
Researchers are looking at neurons required for touch-mediated pain relief.
More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
A food fight may finally be put to rest.