General Health

Short on speed? Lacking endurance? You may have trained those limitations into your system. With some muscle know-how, you can train ’em out.

Learn if mold is messing with your body — and how you can clear up the trouble.

You don’t have to make 100% healthy choices all the time. It’s what you do most of the time — day in, day out — that counts.

New research shows that your microbial cloud is as unique as a fingerprint.

How to read the telltale clues of health imbalances — and what you can do about them.

Don’t yet see yourself as a super-healthy person? Experiment with doing a little of what you’d do if you were already supremely healthy and fit. As often as you can, act as if your commitment were unwavering.

A guided tour of one of your body’s most complex structures.

Be informed about your rights regarding your genetic information.

Drink water, eat good food, move, rest, relax, connect. Don’t sweat the more complex stuff until you’ve got a grip on the basics.

A new study finds that regular resistance-training can reduce accumulation of fat in the liver.

A new study suggests that chronic inflammation can lead to depression.

Emerging research has shown that there are many science-based reasons to keep your cool.

Too many chronic ailments have been pronounced “incurable.” Here’s how some functional-medicine practitioners are resolving such conditions — and transforming their patients’ lives.

New research by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet is beginning to unravel the mystery of how exercise alters the function of our genes.