Inflammation
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Aging With Brain Power: How to Boost Your Mental Acuity and Cognition (Performance & Longevity Series)
Explore the key factors that affect cognitive health, and learn strategies for protecting your brain and optimizing mental acuity.
Are Autoimmune Diseases Becoming More Common?
Yes, and many experts suspect environmental triggers. Here’s why.
How Melatonin Reduces Inflammation
Melatonin does more than just regulate your sleep cycle — it also helps tamp down inflammation. Here’s how.
Becoming Heart Smart (Performance & Longevity Series)
Learn the hidden causes of heart disease, how it progresses, and how to prevent, and potentially reverse it, so you can own your cardiovascular health and be “heart smart.”
Breaking Insulin Resistance: Your Guide to Blood-Sugar Mastery (Performance & Longevity Series)
Understand the widespread and critical issue of insulin resistance, including its implications for health and the steps you can take to monitor and manage your blood sugar.
Inflammation and Aging: The Hidden Connection (Performance & Longevity Series)
Understand the concept of metabolic inflammation — or “metaflammation” — and how it can silently affect metabolism, leading to accelerated aging, or “inflammaging.”
Learning How to Manage Gestational Hypertension — Naturally
How healthcare researcher Michelle Emebo learned to manage gestational hypertension with quality nutrition and exercise.
Redefining Obesity
Rather than looking just at a person’s weight, some progressive healthcare providers are seeking to identify obesity by its metabolic effects.
The Connection Between Your Gut and Your Mental Health
In his new book, The Gut-Brain Paradox, Steven Gundry, MD, talks about how maintaining a healthy gut microbiome may improve your mood.
How Ultraprocessed Foods Wreak Havoc on Your Metabolism
Eating UPFs can undermine your digestion, gut health, and metabolism. Here’s why.
5 Anti-Inflammatory Recipes
Soothe systemic inflammation with these recipes featuring nutritious foods like fatty fish, cruciferous vegetables, berries, and more.
How Does Sugar Affect Mood?
Learn more about the effect that sugar and inflammation have on your mood.
What Are the Best Heart-Healthy Foods?
Experts share which ingredients they keep in their heart-healthy pantries — and which foods they try to avoid.
Considering a GLP-1 Agonist? Here’s How to Take a Balanced Approach
Weight-loss drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, can be both helpful and harmful — sometimes in equal measure. Integrative-health experts suggest that short-term use, coupled with lifestyle changes, can offer a middle way.
How Does Sugar Impact the Liver?
The liver plays a key role in processing sugar, but eating too many sugary foods and drinks can strain this essential organ. Here’s why.
The Truth About Ultraprocessed Foods
These products are everywhere. Here’s a closer look at the many ways these food products can harm your health — and why it’s worth the effort to avoid them when you can.
12 Common Questions About Sugar and Your Health — Answered
Here’s what you need to know about the sweet stuff’s effects on your health.
PUMPING IRONY: An Alternative Approach to Alzheimer’s
With enthusiasm waning amid poor clinical trials and ineffective treatments, dementia researchers are increasingly exploring the role viral infections may play in the disease — and the salutary effects of a particular vaccine.
How Can the Vagus Nerve Help Lower Inflammation?
Stimulating the vagus nerve leads to the release of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that affects inflammation. Learn more.
What Can I Do to Lower My Alzheimer’s Risk and Dementia?
Neurologist David Perlmutter, MD, shares nine strategies for preventing cognitive decline.
What Are Some of the Health Consequences of Eating Junk Food?
Eating ultraprocessed food may increase the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and anxiety, according to a recent review. Here’s why.