More than 70% of the sodium Americans eat comes from packaged and prepared food. A nurse walks through eight everyday meals that blow past a day’s sodium limit, the swap for each, and the non-food things that raise blood pressure too.
Reflux, snoring, back pain, pregnancy, shortness of breath: a nurse walks through the sleep position and pillow placement for nine common problems, and when position alone isn’t the answer.
No nut heals anything on its own, but the research shows what each one actually does. Here is the evidence on walnuts, almonds, pistachios, peanuts, hazelnuts and Brazil nuts.
Which anti-aging drinks hold up in the research, which ones are marketing, and the one drink to cut if you care about how you age.
Seven fish categories, one healthiest and one unhealthiest pick in each, chosen on the mercury and omega-3 numbers the FDA actually measured.
Cortisol is meant to spike after you wake and fall through the day. Here is what a normal rhythm looks like, why at-home test kits mislead, and the habits that genuinely reset it.
The blood tests, clinic readings and at-home checks that matter most after 50 — what each number means, the range the AHA, ADA, CDC and NIH publish for it, and the four worth knowing cold.
No single food fixes your hormones. But five of them have credible research behind them, and here is what that research actually shows.
Twenty-six gentle moves for stiff, achy joints, most of them done from a chair or at the counter, plus what staying active does for your body as you age.
Six foods with real research behind them, two worth eating less often, and what each study actually measured: memory scores, dementia risk, or dementia-related death.
Here, we’ll review some common lab tests your doctor might recommend and why — so you feel better prepared for conversations with your provider.
A trainer walks through the 15 symptom-and-supplement pairings circulating online, what the evidence actually supports, and the four worth questioning most.