DIY Health

Dr. Michael Cutler

7 ways the chemistry of positive emotions can make you well

Positive — or negative emotions — change your body chemistry. Think for a moment about this. How does it feel to communicate/show kindness, forgiveness, acceptance, or love?

Jenny Smiechowski

Bad food habits that’ll kill you faster than smoking

A new study found lousy eating kills 11 million people per year. That means 1 in 5 deaths is caused simply by eating the wrong foods. That’s more people than both smoking and high blood pressure kill. But what exactly qualifies as lousy? I’ll tell you, as well as the 3 dietary habits that contribute to more than half of these deaths!

Jenny Smiechowski

At 47 or 87 your brain can make new cells (here’s how)

Your brain doesn’t create any new brain cells after it fully develops at age 25 or so? At least, that’s what you’ve been told most of your life. If you can’t make any more, your life is just one long descent toward cognitive decline. Well, that’s wrong and outdated.

Joyce Hollman

Why time seems to move faster as we age, and how to slow it down

Remember the endless days of childhood? It seemed like so many things happened in a day! Now, as we get older, time goes faster and faster, and we’re not happy about it. Well, it turns out there’s a scientific explanation for this phenomenon, one that might show us how to feel like we’re getting more out of each day.

Dr. Elizabeth Klodas MD, FACC

Have drugs and therapies helped make heart disease the #1 killer?

It wasn’t long ago that The Center for Disease Control (CDC) released its health statistic brief… And, yet again, heart disease was at the top — as the leading cause of death in the United States. It’s been like this for years, and years and years. Not surprising, right… but, you know what was?

Jenny Smiechowski

The best way to finally relax, melt stress and fight disease at the same time

Here’s a simple truth we take for granted: Relaxation is powerful medicine. It can prevent mental health issues, counteract the physical damage caused by stress and reduce your risk of chronic disease. Those are facts. But for it to work, you have to actually feel relaxed, and that’s not so easy unless…