Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Dave Asprey
Can nicotine keep Alzheimer's at bay? Dave Asprey explains how natural drugs can create super humans.
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- Written by: Matthew Ruby and Tani Khara
Between the rise of plant-based sausages and veggie burgers that “bleed”, vegan protesters at supermarkets, and Disney adding hundreds of vegan items to its theme park menus, veganism is in the news.
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- Written by: Nathan Collins
Highlighting the tastiness of healthy food can help us make better food choices, researchers report.
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- Written by: Anne Warde
Common herbs, including lavender, fennel, and chamomile, have a long history as folk medicines used to lower blood pressure. New research explains the molecular mechanisms at work.
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- Written by: Rob Jordan
Often unaware of the dangers, some spice processors in Bangladesh use an industrial lead chromate pigment to imbue turmeric with a bright yellow color prized for curries and other traditional dishes.
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- Written by: David A Guba, Jr.
This past summer the French food and drug office, the Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament, greenlighted limited medical cannabis trials inside France, something that’s been illegal since 1953.
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- Written by: Annalijn I. Conklin and Hadis Mozaffari
Since the late 1970s, a diversified diet has been considered an essential component of healthy eating. Ensuring a good balance of nutrients is crucial for people to stay healthy.
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- Written by: Kathryn Walton and Molly Gallant
Food waste is costly — and not just dollars and cents. Food waste also has significant environmental and health implications.
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- Written by: Greta Guest
New findings challenge the wisdom of budgeting calories for the day, which is what weight-control programs like Weight Watchers and diet apps like MyFitnessPal use.
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- Written by: SciShow
A quarter of all prescription drugs in the U.S. come from substances that are found only in plants. In this episode of SciShow, we take a look at four of these talented plants who make our lives better.
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- Written by: Suzanne Mahady
Up to 35% of cancers worldwide might be caused by lifestyle factors such as diet and smoking. So how can we go about reducing our risk of bowel cancer?
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- Written by: Clean & Delicious
Baked Lemon Garlic Chicken is easy, juicy and full of flavor.
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- Written by: David Winston
Adaptogens can greatly increase the effectiveness of some modern drugs, including antibiotics, anxiolytics (anxiety relief), antidepressants, and hypoglycemic (blood sugar lowering) agents. They also can reduce, and in some cases eliminate, the side effects of some drugs. They have a proven record of being safe, efficacious, and quite versatile in their treatment of many conditions.
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- Written by: Tamara Bhandari
Life-saving antibiotics may cause long-lasting damage to the developing microbial communities in intestinal tracts of premature babies, research finds.
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- Written by: SciShow
More than half of Americans take a dietary supplement, but the truth is, most people don't need them.
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- Written by: Ilona Jaspers
The rise in cases of otherwise healthy young adults who have been hospitalized or even died from vaping-associated lung injury is alarming.
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- Written by: Clare Collins
Trying to lose weight is hard work. You need to plan meals and snacks, and make a big effort to avoid situations that trigger more eating and drinking than you’d planned.
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- Written by: Emma Beckett and Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Food gives us the nutrients we need to survive, and we know a balanced diet contributes to good health.
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- Written by: Daniel Stolte
The first animal likely was a carnivore, new research finds. Humans, along with other omnivores, belong to a rare breed.
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- Written by: Rose Brandt
Prescription omega-3 fatty acid medications are a safe and effective option for reducing high triglycerides, which increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Laurel Thomas
Vitamin D deficiency in middle childhood could result in aggressive behavior as well as anxious and depressive moods during adolescence, according to a new study of school children in Bogotá, Colombia.
