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Margaret Cantwell

What your enlarged prostate may be saying about your blood sugar

An enlarged prostate and urinary symptoms are usually blamed on age. But high insulin may act like a growth-and-stress signal in the body — and the prostate appears to be one of the organs listening. That signals problems beyond plumbing…

Carolyn Gretton

The surprising reason healthy eating may be linked to lung cancer

What if some of the healthiest foods on your plate were carrying something your body doesn’t need? Researchers studying nonsmokers, under 50, with lung cancer found a pattern that surprised even them. And the explanation is hiding in plain sight.

Dr. Adria Schmedthorst

The ‘healthy fat’ imbalance that weakens your immune system after 45

Monounsaturated fats (MUFAs), found in olive oil, avocados and nuts, may help strengthen immune cells and improve their ability to survive stress. But balancing MUFAs with polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs) appears key to optimal immune function…

Joyce Hollman

The melt-proof ice cream additive damaging your gut

Have you seen that TikTok video where the ice cream sandwich doesn’t melt? It’s all thanks to an additive that gives your taste buds the ice cream you love, and your gut a toxic, acidic ingredient that does serious damage…

Dr. Elizabeth Klodas MD, FACC

The ultimate health hack: Optimizing your circadian rhythm

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…

Joyce Hollman

6 supplements a scientist who studies aging swears by

Most doctors advise geting nutrients from food and only supplementing for deficiencies. But an expert in the anti-aging space says he and others like him are willing to throw caution to the wind, especially on supplements with little risk, for the best shot at a long, healthy life…