Coffee keeps showing up in metabolic research, offering benefits that haven’t been fully understood. But new tech in the study of functional foods reveals coffee’s secret: compounds that block a key enzyme similar to how drugs work…

If you’re living with Crohn’s disease, you may have your fill of medications. But research is revealing a new way to significantly reduce symptoms and inflammation by simply changing when you eat. Here are the details…

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…

Ample research shows the gut microbiome influences whole-body health. But as we age, so does the gut. Could maintaining a more “youthful” microbiome support intestinal regeneration and healthier aging?

When high cholesterol and weight gain come together, risks for heart trouble ramp up. Doctors will offer a pair of prescriptions, but an ancient snack turned functional food has plenty of clout to help get the job done…