For those with extra weight, OJ appears to ‘wake up’ genes linked to breaking down fat cells. In A Nutshell Orange juice ...

Recently, scientists at Stanford University began to wonder why identical lab mice, bred with the same DNA and brought up in identical conditions, wound up so different in their old age. Some mice ...

As you age, you lose muscle and gain visceral fat around your organs. Scientists say your visceral fat to muscle ratio may ...

So many women come to see me with the same complaint; they feel disconnected and disenchanted, cut off from something authentic and vital inside themselves. They describe being hyper-aware of what ...

Interoception is how your brain senses and responds to what’s going on inside your body. “It’s how we know when we’re hungry, thirsty, anxious, or even need to take a deep breath,” says Wen G. Chen, ...

We all know blood is red. But not all red blood is created equal. The exact shade of your blood can actually tell you a lot about what’s happening inside your body. And while you might not spend much ...

T he severe swelling of hereditary angioedema (HAE) can be uncomfortable and inconvenient at best, life-threatening at worst. What’s more, symptoms are unpredictable, vary in severity, and crop up out ...

We all have bodies and we all have feelings about them, yet so few of us have been taught how to think about our body image in a productive way. Deb Schachter, LICSW and Whitney Otto, MA, authors of ...