For decades, oral health and overall health were often viewed as two separate concerns. Dentists cared for the teeth and gums, while physicians focused on the rest of the body. But that long-standing divide is beginning to fade.1 Researchers are...

Most people think about posture in terms of neck strain, back discomfort or ergonomics. Your posture, however, also sends information to your brain. This concept is known as postural feedback, meaning the position of your body helps shape how you...

You already know sitting too long is hard on your heart and metabolism. New research suggests it's just as hard on your ability to think clearly. Modern life makes this problem easy to overlook. You sit while you work, commute, watch television,...

When was the last time you danced or learned to play a musical instrument? How about painting or doing a mural? You may not realize it, but these seemingly mundane hobbies, activities that allow you to exercise your creativity, may be doing more...

You might have noticed it yourself or heard it from friends that the bread in Europe seems to sit differently in your body than the bread you eat in the United States. People share stories of enjoying baguettes in Paris or pizza in Rome without the...

Few hormones have attracted as much attention in weight-loss research as glucagonlike peptide-1, or GLP-1. This naturally occurring gut hormone helps regulate appetite, signals fullness to your brain, and influences blood sugar control after meals....

Your brain is roughly 75% water, yet millions of people walk around chronically underhydrated and mistake the effects for stress, aging, or burnout. Mental fatigue, foggy thinking, slower reaction times, and memory lapses often surface long before...

When the weather turns brutally hot, your body is already working hard to hold its internal temperature steady. Add a workout to that effort, and the margin for error shrinks fast. Heat and exertion stack on top of each other, and at some point...

Dementia and depression affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Yet one of the strongest predictors of who gets these diseases, and who doesn't, costs nothing, requires no prescription, and is already within your control. It comes down to...