A lot of things come to mind when someone talks about healthy aging. For many of us, it simply means we want to feel as healthy as possible—for as long as possible. So, I think it’s normal that [...]
Category: Reality Health Check
(Shh!) Why are these findings being kept a secret?
Do you ever read a news story or research paper and wonder how the heck a certain conclusion was made? If so, you’re not alone. Case in point: The VITAL study was designed to primarily study the [...]
Why did the FDA just approve this wearable belt device?
Have you seen the movie, The Road to Wellville, where Matthew Broderick plays an eccentric doctor? He uses an opportunistic approach to health—prescribing different “devices” to achieve certain [...]
Big Food TARGETING diabetics? (Clean up in aisle three!)
Type 2 diabetes. It’s a lifestyle disease. Meaning you can prevent, even reverse, it by making better choices. As a reader of mine, you already know this. But you may also know how confusing [...]
Breast cancer-contributing chemicals? [URGENT ALERT]
Remember earlier this week when I told you about how France is investigating the health risks of endocrine-disrupting chemicals? And how they uncovered links between them and our reproductive [...]
Are these chemicals KILLING us?
Not every national public health agency has the best interests of giant corporations at heart, like what we experience here in the U.S. In fact, the French agency—known as Santé Publique France [...]
STOP falling for this medical MYTH
As with many things in the medical community—and elsewhere, for that matter—myths get build up so much, they become a fact in many people’s minds. For instance, there’s no scientific evidence [...]
April showers bring MORE than “May flowers”
For those of you who celebrate, I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend. Of course, the next time we talk, it will be April. And this infamously wet month doesn’t just bring “May flowers.” [...]
Do you like to DANCE? (Important!)
You know how I always talk about exercise? I could spew its health benefits all day long. But this might be the MOST important piece of advice at all: Find something you LIKE to do… and then, [...]
The “hidden” culprit behind your health issues
We often talk about gut health and how it affects the whole body like it’s a new idea. And while the National Institutes of Health (NIH) only just recently launched The Human Microbiome [...]