Meet your thyroid, a delicate little gland located at the front of your throat. It controls how every cell in your body turns food and oxygen into energy — and that can mean big trouble if your thyroid goes on the fritz.
Degenerative joint disease can cause debilitating pain, loss of mobility, and function, even severe disability. But what if you’re just starting to suffer from a little wear and tear? Here’s how to work with your joints — not against them.
Your body’s rapid-response defenses protect you from millions of would-be invaders daily. Here’s how you can help your immune system do its job.
How to get beyond headlines and hype to find answers you can use.
Like it or not, emotions share some very real biochemical links with your nervous, endocrine, immune and digestive systems. Isn’t it time you learned something about how your body responds to what you feel—and vice versa?
A generation at risk. An epidemic in full swing. A parent’s call to action.
The first and last moments of your day can steady or destabilize everything that comes in between. Are your mornings and nights propping you up, or tipping you over?
Insight gleaned from the Human Genome Project may have many of us looking deeper into the mysteries of our own DNA — and how our own diet and lifestyle choices can impact it.
Allergy-like food sensitivities may be the blame for at least part of your pudge. Lay off your problem foods and you could lose unwanted pounds and inches — fast.
Don’t take two aspirin and call this doctor in the morning. He’d rather see you nourish, protect and heal your body for real.
Well, we’ve done it. We’ve corralled massive piles of health and fitness information from a variety of leading health books, magazines and web sites, then squeezed out the most essential bits and massaged them into just 10 basic tips.
Want to live longer, healthier and happier? Forget about acting your age. Instead, set out to change it.
On my radio show I give out an award called the “Wish You Were Here Award.” It is an award given to people who are so far off in their understanding of nutrition that they are sent a postcard with a picture of the earth on one side with the phrase “Wish You Were Here” written on the back.
Healing or harmful? When it comes to both your health and appearance, the sun may play a bigger role than you thought.
Why what you don’t clean out can kill you, and how optimizing your body’s gunk-removal system may save your life.
The first six factors in the Biomarkers book are found in the context of the original “Ageless Vitality” article. The remaining four are found below.
How much do you really know about the magic of your body’s inner workings?
Too often, our intimate relationship with the natural world fades with childhood. But somewhere, in each of us, an essential craving remains.