Are you a chocoholic? If you are, you may have been thinking about cutting back. Hold that thought. First, read about how it’s slowing aging in people by inceasing a natural anti-aging chemical…

Wine and cheese get better with age. But people? The prospect of aging paints a very negative picture and begs the question, do our negative thoughts create a self-fulfilling prophecy? Yale found a significant connection…

As you get older, you may lose some of your mental sharpness. You may choose a supplement to support memory and cognition. But it’s important that you’re taking the right ones, otherwise, you may sacrifice much more…

When the symptom of a disease is also what makes it worse, it becomes self-perpetuating. That’s the case with laryngeal cancer. Music soothes the savage beast, so scientists wondered, could it tame this cancer…

Maintaining good health shouldn’t be a trade-off. But it’s not uncommon to take a medication for one problem, only for it to lead to another. For one popular type of heartburn medication, the list of consequences just keeps growing…

Amyloid plaque is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s. But it’s proving a difficult target for treatment. That’s why a silent change in the brain that may precede it is offering a glimmer of hope…

Losing weight, like so many things, gets harder with age, while packing the pounds on seems to get only easier. Lucky for us, one of our favorite nuts may be the answer. New research says it’s powerful enough to be designated a superfood…

Drugs work, but I also like to look beyond pharmacologic solutions to underlying causes. That’s why I’m sharing data on a traditional Chinese mind-body exercise found to lower blood pressure as effectively as a drug…

Say it with me, food is medicine. Aside from the benefits of just eating healthily, there are times when food can produce results we might normally attribute only to medication. Take oats, for example…

Worried about staying strong and independent as you age? Here’s the simple daily snack scientists say could help you preserve your strength, mobility and reduce fall risk, without causing weight gain.

Why do some people gain weight easily, while others don’t? The usual suspects include genetics, stress levels, hormones and, of course, metabolism. But there’s a silent, microscopic player in this game that we often overlook…

When your body can predict what you’re going to do and when, it can “meet you there,” priming your systems to perform at their peak. Here is why predictability is the ultimate health hack…