The Study That Should Make Every Cannabis User Think Twice About What They "Remember" My college roommate Tara swears — absolutely swears — that we watched...
My neighbor Greg — the one who switched from cigarettes to a JUUL three years ago because his wife was pregnant and he wanted to \"be healthier about it\" —...
My Neighbor Swears His Nightly Joint Cured His Anxiety and I Did Not Have the Heart to Argue Greg — that is my upstairs neighbor, the one who does tai chi on...
A 385-Point Hacker News Rant About Social Media Just Accidentally Explained Why You Cannot Sleep — And the Science Backs Every Word of It Last Saturday at ar...
Last Thursday, around 10:20 PM, I was doing what I always do when I should be sleeping — browsing Hacker News — and I stumbled on a GitHub repository that g...
My friend Rachel sent me a screenshot last Wednesday. It was an Instagram ad — glossy, professional, the kind that looks like it cost someone $12,000 to produ...
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I have a confession that is going to sound deeply immature for a health writer: I have always found flatulence hilarious. Like, clinically hilarious. My partner...
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Here is something that happened to my friend Karen last month. She woke up at 3 AM with chest tightness, shortness of breath, and tingling in her left arm. Inst...
My mother is 72 and has started forgetting names. Not in the dramatic, movie-style way — more like pausing mid-sentence, reaching for a word that used to come...
My neighbor Karen — a radiology tech at a regional hospital outside Portland — texted me last weekend with something that had nothing to do with neighborhoo...
Last month, my friend Carla texted me a screenshot of her blood glucose readings from her phone. Not because I'm her doctor (I am spectacularly unqualified to b...
Last month, I downloaded a popular sleep tracking app. Five days later, it sent me a personalized email recommending a $90 mattress topper "based on your sleep ...
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I am going to tell you about something that sounds like it belongs in a science fiction novel, but it is happening right now in laboratories across three contin...
I used to take seven supplements every morning. Seven. Vitamin D, vitamin C, a B-complex, fish oil, magnesium, zinc, and a multivitamin "just to cover the bases...
If you follow weight loss drug news even casually — and at this point, who does not — you probably saw the headlines this week: Novo Nordisk has dropped its...
Last September, I went in for my annual physical. Everything came back normal. Blood pressure: fine. Cholesterol: fine. Blood sugar: fine. My doctor said I was ...
I have a confession that might get my nutrition nerd card revoked: I used to think dietitians ate bland, cheerless food. Steamed broccoli and plain chicken brea...
I have a confession: until about four months ago, my idea of "meal prep" was buying a rotisserie chicken from Costco and eating it over three days with whatever...
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In December, my gym raised its monthly fee to $65. I was already going only twice a week — running on a treadmill for 30 minutes and doing some half-hearted c...
My doctor told me my blood pressure was 145/92. Stage 2 hypertension. I was 34 years old, not overweight, and thought I was healthy. She recommended medication....
Two years ago, I was the person who thought "gut health" was just another wellness buzzword invented to sell overpriced kombucha. Then I started having weird sy...