Can a ‘Magic’ Protein Slow the Aging Process?
Elevian is one of several companies searching for ways to increase life span — in this case, using a protein called GDF11. But challenges lie […]
Elevian is one of several companies searching for ways to increase life span — in this case, using a protein called GDF11. But challenges lie […]
How effective is chemotherapy for colon, lung, breast, and prostate cancers? “Over the last several decades…medicine has waged a major war against cancer, concentrating on […]
Is black salve, a paste made from bloodroot, safe and effective for the treatment of skin cancer? “Despite warnings from the American Academy of Dermatology […]
Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help treat and reverse it as well? Legumes—all kinds of beans, […]
Which would save more lives: eating an apple a day or taking statin drugs? Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away? That’s […]
Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among apple-eaters? Regular apple intake is associated with all sorts of […]
A higher Medicare premium in 2022 is just part of the puzzle of health care costs for older Americans. But there are ways to plan.
A higher Medicare premium in 2022 is just part of the puzzle of health care costs for older Americans. But there are ways to plan.
A higher Medicare premium in 2022 is just part of the puzzle of health care costs for older Americans. But there are ways to plan.
A higher Medicare premium in 2022 is just part of the puzzle of health care costs for older Americans. But there are ways to plan.
A higher Medicare premium in 2022 is just part of the puzzle of health care costs for older Americans. But there are ways to plan.
In this article, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods. Whenever […]
If doctors don’t understand health statistics, how can they possibly properly counsel patients? “In these mammography wars, rational thinking can be easily lost.” Mammograms are […]
“Early” detection is actually really late. Without mammograms, breast cancer may not be caught for an average of 22.8 years. With mammograms, though, breast cancer […]
After reading this, you’ll know more than an estimated 97 percent of doctors about a critical concept called lead-time bias. While running for president of […]
Nine out of ten women don’t realize that some breast cancers would never have caused any problems or even become known in one’s lifetime. This […]
Every year, cannabis is estimated to result in two million years of healthy life lost due to disability. How much is that compared with alcohol […]
The mammogram paradox is that women who are harmed the most, are the ones who claim the greatest benefit. While false-positive results, pain during the […]
What is the risk-benefit ratio of the cancers picked up by mammograms and the cancers caused by mammograms? Over the last few decades, our radiation […]
For every life saved by mammography, as many as two to ten women are overdiagnosed and unnecessarily turned into breast cancer patients with all of […]
Various health organizations offer clashing mammogram recommendations that range from annual mammograms starting at age 40 to eliminating routine mammograms altogether. Who can you trust? […]
A growing number of cancer patients, especially those with breast and lung cancers, are being spared the dreaded treatment in favor of other options.
Music’s Impact on Cognitive Health Music can have a tremendous impact on healthy aging – most critically, a person’s cognitive health. It can be the […]
How to Keep Your Brain Sharp as You Age The brain has the potential to stay sharp even as we get older if we give […]
Extracts of amla (Indian gooseberry) were pitted head-to-head against cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and the blood thinners aspirin and Plavix. Indian gooseberries, otherwise known as amla, […]
What are the risks and benefits of getting a comprehensive annual physical exam and routine blood testing? The model of getting an annual physical exam […]
What are the risks and benefits of getting an annual check-up from your doctor? Physicians and patients have come to expect the annual check-up as […]
How should we properly cook beans? In the 1800s, a compound was discovered in castor beans, which we would come to know as the first […]
A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff test. I started getting emails about The Plant Paradox, a […]
Should we be concerned about high-choline plant foods such as broccoli producing the same toxic TMAO that results from eating high-choline animal foods such as […]
How can humans extend their life span? In the second episode of our Health Innovators series, Paul Tunnah speaks to longevity investor Sergey Young about […]
At the start of my video What Does a Low White Blood Cell Count Mean?, you can see what it looks like when you take […]
Physical fitness authorities seem to have fallen into the same trap as the nutrition authorities, recommending what they think may be achievable, rather than simply […]
Having hypertension in midlife (ages 40 through 60) is associated with elevated risk of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s dementia later in life, even more so […]
“Sex is important to health,” according to the Harvard Health Letter. “Frequent sexual intercourse is associated with reduced heart attack risk.” But, as I discuss […]
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