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The Body Can Sense Death – And It All Starts With The Nose
Death remains one of life’s biggest mysteries, but new research reveals that our bodies might detect it before our minds do.Through scent and instinct, our subconscious reacts to...
Exercise
How Many Push Ups should you be able to do? Amount sorted by age
Have you ever heard that completing 40 push-ups a day can significantly lower the risk of cardiovascular disease? Push-ups are an effective and simple way to measure upper body...
Diseases
Hemoglobin levels by age and sex: what your blood test number means
Below 12 g/dL for women and 13 g/dL for men, the WHO calls it anemia.
Diseases
Normal eGFR levels by age: what your kidney function number means for you
The eGFR line on your blood panel is your main kidney score, and most people never learn to read it.
Diseases
9 early warning signs of type 2 diabetes most people mistake for aging
The symptoms build over years and look a lot like ordinary aging or stress.
Vitamins and Supplements
How eating ginger every day can affect your blood pressure and joints
A new NIH-listed meta-analysis puts a number on the daily-ginger habit.
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Nutrition
How eating broccoli every day may affect your gut, heart and cancer risk
The evidence for a familiar green vegetable is more specific than most people realize.
Diseases
Your Long COVID may be quietly raising your heart and kidney risk
A new analysis of 2.6 million COVID cases finds younger adults face outsized relative risks.
Diseases
8 warning signs of low blood pressure and when it becomes dangerous
Hypotension gets far less attention than its high-pressure twin, and that is exactly why it slips past.
Diseases
Creatinine levels by age and sex: what your blood test number means
The lab number most people see first tells only half the kidney story.
Vitamins and Supplements
How eating ginger every day can affect your blood pressure and joints
A new NIH-listed meta-analysis puts a number on the daily-ginger habit.
Diseases
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic may now be an option for a group of patients long left out
The 2026 American Diabetes Association guidance opens GLP-1 therapy to a new patient group.
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Your gut bacteria may spread to the people around you more easily than anyone realized
A new Nature study finds gut microbes spread between people, sometimes across continents, faster than expected.
Low vitamin C may be quietly speeding up how fast your brain ages
A study of 2,044 older adults links lower plasma vitamin C to shrinking brain volume and weaker memory-network wiring.
Why rheumatoid arthritis attacks some joints and not others: The answer starts before birth
Oxford scientists say certain finger joints may be biologically primed for the disease before you are born.
Gut researcher highlights important toilet habits – many do the opposite
Many people experience stomach and digestive problems in their daily lives, but according to a Harvard researcher, some common habits may have a greater impact than you might think.
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How eating sweet potatoes every day can affect your eyes, gut and heart
The numbers behind the "healthy carb" swap, from your retinas to your gut bacteria to your blood pressure.
The speech change doctors say is an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s disease
Slower speech and longer pauses may show up before memory tests do.
How eating pineapple every day can affect your gut, immunity and inflammation
A daily cup delivers vitamin C, manganese and one enzyme absent from the rest of the produce aisle.
How eating barley every day may affect your cholesterol, gut and blood sugar
A 2023 randomized crossover trial found daily barley flakes cut LDL cholesterol in three weeks.
New study finds hidden disease in almost all 60-70-year-olds: ‘A giant killer’
A major imaging study found silent artery disease in almost every adult in their 60s.
Spending time in the sun this summer may not be raising your vitamin D after 50
A UK study of nearly 300 adults found summer sun did not lift vitamin D levels in older or darker-skinned participants.
A widely used diabetes drug may cut your heart attack risk by more than a third
A large new study links tirzepatide to fewer heart attacks and deaths in high-risk adults.
How long should you hold a plank? The benchmark by age and fitness level
Set a timer, drop into a forearm plank, and see how your hold measures up.
How eating whole grains every day may affect your heart, gut and blood sugar
The evidence on whole grains is unusually consistent, and the effect size is meaningful.