Fitness
What Are the Health Benefits of Yerba Mate?
The impressive health benefits of drinking yerba mate include increased energy and enhanced weight loss. Should you trade your coffee or tea for this traditional South American beverage?...
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Fitness
Skinny Genes Tell Fat to Burn
A gene whose mutated form is associated with cancer in humans turns out to have a role in burning calories over a long evolutionary history.
Fitness
What’s the Science Behind Why We Hiccup?
Lots of things seem to trigger the involuntary reflex known as the hiccups, but does science understand why that reflex happens in the first place?
Fitness
Can High-Intensity Exercise Improve Your Memory?
Exercise like walking, swimming, and even dancing have been shown to be good for your memory, but the optimal intensity of that exercise has been unclear... until now
Public Health
‘Spider-Man’ Immune Response May Promote Severe COVID-19
Clinical trials have begun to test drugs that counter toxic molecular webs linked to lung distress
Fitness
Why Exercise Is So Good For You
Health journalist Judy Foreman talks about her new book Exercise Is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging.
Public Health
COVID-19: What the Autopsies Reveal
Pathologists are starting to get a closer look at the damage that COVID-19 does to the body by carefully examining the internal organs of people who have died from the novel coronavirus...
Culture
Our 3,000th Episode
Here are some “highlights” from the past 13.5 years of this podcast.
Psychology
Effective Psychological Therapy May Slow Cellular Aging
Cognitive-behavioral therapy improved both symptoms and markers of senescence in people with anxiety
Fitness
Can Your Microbiome Reveal Your Ideal Diet?
Forget carbs and calories. Your microbiome may hold the key to better blood sugar control
Public Health
Waiter, What’s This Worm Doing in My Sushi?
Well, it’s probably there because the odds on its presence have gone way up in the past 40 years. But such parasites are still much more of a health problem for whales and dolphins than they are for us...
Evolution
Why We Have So Many Problems with Our Teeth
Our choppers are crowded, crooked and riddled with cavities. It hasn’t always been this way
Public Health
Sleep Apnea Is Different for Women
The risky disorder often follows a different pattern in women that may get overlooked
Fitness
Separating HIIT Fact from Fiction
It’s easy to get lost in the hype around new workout devices or protocols that promise maximal results in minimal time
Fitness
Soylent vs. Huel—Can Powdered Meals Replace Food?
Meal replacement products like Soylent and Huel have gained a loyal following. But are these all-in-one powders and shakes really a more optimal way to get your nutrition?
Fitness
Can Exercising Before Breakfast Dramatically Improve Your Health?
Hot on the heels of National Diabetes Month, a new study has shown that exercising before eating breakfast can improve how your body responds to insulin
Mental Health
COVID-19: Dealing with Social Distancing
Judy Moskowitz, a professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University, talks about ways to cope during this time of missing out on our usual diet of social interactions.
Fitness
If You Don’t Sleep, You Will Go Insane
Originally published in March 1880
Public Health
Coronavirus Hot Zone: Research and Responses in the U.S. Epicenter
Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs reports from the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak: Kirkland, Wash. In this installment of our ongoing series, he talks with researchers about the efforts to create vaccines and treatments and the challenges the outbreak poses to cancer patients and others who are immunocompromised...
Fitness
Does Seed Cycling Help Balance Hormones?
A newly trendy nutrition practice called seed cycling is said to help balance female hormones and curb hormonal symptoms. Does science support the claims?
