Scientists have examined the popular Mediterranean diet at the cellular level and found that its specific components and possibly the overall diet can increase life expectancy by up to 35 percent. This promising extension of life expectancy was demonstrated using a model laboratory organisms – worms. But the effects most likely exist in humans, too,...
Month: <span>June 2023</span>
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How to Lower A1C Levels Naturally
BY AMY CAMPBELL, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES | MARCH 3, 2021 Call it what you will: hemoglobin A1C, glycosylated hemoglobin, HbA1c or just “A1C,” these numbers, known as A1C levels, play a huge role in how your diabetes is managed. It’s also used to diagnose diabetes, as well as prediabetes. Your A1C is a blood test that provides information about...
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Denials of health insurance claims are rising, and getting weirder
by Elisabeth Rosenthal Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the experience and the insurer’s explanation often seem arbitrary and absurd, that might be...
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Could low iron be making mental health symptoms worse?
by University of Michigan Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most people these days understand that mental health issues have their roots in physical differences in our brains, genes and bodies, and differences in our life experiences. But what you eat and how your body uses the nutrients in your food also matters to mental health. A growing...
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Chemical in Artificial Sweetener May Damage DNA
Kimberly Drake June 01, 2023 Image by AB-7272 via Shutterstock Results of a new study on sucralose-6-acetate — a compound that forms during the manufacture and digestion of sucralose — have scientists questioning the safety of the commonly used artificial sweetener. Sucralose, sold under the brand name Splenda, is an artificial sweetener about 320 to...
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Were You Sick But Didn’t Have COVID? It Could Have Been This Virus
By Jillian Wilson Jun 1, 2023, 05:45 AM EDT TI-JA VIA GETTY IMAGES Coughing is one of the symptoms of a respiratory virus known as human metapneumovirus, or HMPV. During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when masking was required across much of the country and people were staying home, cases of illnesses like the flu...
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What causes motion sickness? Here’s how to reconcile the mismatch in what your senses are telling your brain
Published: April 11, 2023 8.05am EDT Author James Phillips Research Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Director of UW Medicine’s Dizziness and Balance Center, University of Washington My first experience with motion sickness was as a college student, standing on the back of a marine research vessel looking at interesting things dredged from...
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More than 80% of people who inject drugs test positive for fentanyl—but only 18% intend to take it
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY More than 80% of New Yorkers who inject drugs test positive for the opioid fentanyl, despite only 18% reporting using it intentionally, according to a new study by researchers at the NYU School of Global Public Health. The findings, published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, suggest that many people who inject...
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Cancer survivors who quit smoking found to have 36% lower cardiovascular risk than those who continue
by European Society of Cardiology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cancer patients who continue smoking after their diagnosis have a nearly doubled risk of heart attack, stroke or death due to cardiovascular disease compared with non-smokers, according to research published on World No Tobacco Day in European Heart Journal. According to the World Health Organization, there were more than 50.5...
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Technology is radically changing sleep as we know it
by Catherine Coveney and Eric L Hsu, The Conversation Credit: metamorworks/Shutterstock From sleep trackers to wakefulness drugs, the 21st century has seen an influx of new technology that could radically alter the way we sleep. Many of these new technologies chase the dream of optimized slumber. They promise to help tailor our sleep schedules to fit around...