Use your most basic instinct to harness stellar health benefits

Can you improve your health by constantly checking your phone for messages? That seems unlikely, doesn’t it? And yet, according to a new study, something happens in your brain every time you reach for your phone and see that familiar glowing screen spring to life. This simple action triggers the release of “feel good” chemicals […]


Millions push their livers to the brink of destruction with this blockbuster drug

Would it be fair to compare the heartburn drugs known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) with heroin? Of course not, right? One is a deadly street drug with no redeeming value, and the other is a class of best-selling drugs approved by the FDA. And yet, these drugs have some disturbing similarities: Both drugs deliver […]


Your secret breast cancer survival kit

I can’t think of a better way to observe the final day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month than to take a look at some helpful insights about how to survive this disease — and prevent a recurrence. If you check the American Cancer Society (ACS) website (as I’m sure millions of women coping with breast […]


The weird connection between longevity and bacteria

“Diversify.” That’s the classic one-word piece of advice we’ve all heard from financial planners for ages. It also happens to be good advice for long-term physical health. A new study shows that healthy longevity requires diversity in gut bacteria. Western University researchers in China enlisted 1,000 healthy volunteers ranging in age from three years to […]


For a good night’s sleep, create your own private oasis

A few months ago at a family dinner, my cousin Henry’s wife, Judy, told us all that she’d been having a hard time sleeping. The problem? Henry snored. According to Judy, his snoring sometimes sounded like the classic “sawing logs” — a gentle back and forth pattern. Other times, it was more like a lumber […]


Is your work schedule making you fat?

I just read about a new analysis of 28 studies conducted between 1999 and 2016. I wasn’t a participant in any of those studies, but there was a time when I could have been. All of the studies were designed to assess the health impacts of night shift work. That was me, back in the […]


Breast Cancer Awareness Alert: Many patients don’t even need radiation

New research gives women a vitally important piece of information just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Recent trials demonstrate that nine out of 10 women over the age of 70 with early stage breast cancer do not get an added survival benefit when they get radiation after breast-conserving surgery. But even though these […]


Three supplements for superior insulin and blood sugar support

How’s your insulin doing? It’s hard to say, right? If you’re young, fit, and follow a reasonably healthy diet, you’re probably in that “no worries” zone  — even more so if you get regular exercise. For the rest of us — and that’s a pretty wide swath of the population — our insulin status is […]


This underdog vitamin is essential to heart health

When it comes to your heart, size matters…and bigger isn’t better. If your heart becomes enlarged, it pumps less effectively, putting you at risk of a heart attack. But there’s an easy way to ensure that your heart is just the right size for maximum pumping. All you have to do is activate a protein, […]


Power up weight loss by powering down cravings

For many people who set out to lose weight, the strategy consists of picking a date, and then when that day rolls around, they start bright and early cutting out treats and reducing their calorie intake. On the surface, that might not seem like a bad way to go. But it rarely works. By noon, […]