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Considering a GLP-1 Agonist? Here’s How to Take a Balanced Approach
Weight-loss drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, can be both helpful and harmful — sometimes in equal measure. Integrative-health experts suggest that short-term use, coupled with lifestyle changes, can offer a middle way.
How Does Sugar Impact the Liver?
The liver plays a key role in processing sugar, but eating too many sugary foods and drinks can strain this essential organ. Here’s why.
The Truth About Ultraprocessed Foods
These products are everywhere. Here’s a closer look at the many ways these food products can harm your health — and why it’s worth the effort to avoid them when you can.
12 Common Questions About Sugar and Your Health — Answered
Here’s what you need to know about the sweet stuff’s effects on your health.
PUMPING IRONY: An Alternative Approach to Alzheimer’s
With enthusiasm waning amid poor clinical trials and ineffective treatments, dementia researchers are increasingly exploring the role viral infections may play in the disease — and the salutary effects of a particular vaccine.
8 Ways to Activate the Vagus Nerve — and Relieve Anxiety
The following techniques all safely stimulate the vagus nerve, but people with severe asthma, sleep apnea, or heart conditions should use caution with any electrical forms of VNS.
Hormone Health and Longevity: Making the Connection
Learn how hormones change as we age, as well as how to safely optimize them to benefit health, as well as improve longevity.
How Can the Vagus Nerve Help Lower Inflammation?
Stimulating the vagus nerve leads to the release of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that affects inflammation. Learn more.
Training for Longevity
Learn the connection between fitness and longevity and strategies for training to be fit for life.
A Closer Look at Skin Cancer
That lump on your shoulder that seems to be growing? The scaly lesion on your cheek that never seems to heal? Those minor blemishes may not be as benign as you think.
Finding Light in the Dark
Robinson shares how he’s overcome many personal struggles, and his story can serve as inspiration for others to find whatever light they can in dark times and to keep moving forward.
PUMPING IRONY: Hard Times on the Alzheimer’s Front
The Big Pharma approach to treating Alzheimer’s has met with some serious obstacles in recent months, a trend that may encourage more nuanced treatment protocols.
Why Are Young Adults So Much More Anxious and Depressed Than Teenagers?
Plus, four tips on how to thrive in your 20s.
GLP-1s, Weight Loss, and Health: A Panel Discussion With Life Time’s MIORA Leaders
Learn how GLP-1s can safely and strategically be used to support your health and weight-loss goals while also promoting overall wellness.
What to Do If You Get a Cancer Diagnosis
Integrative cancer experts offer advice to help you prepare for the journey.
What Can I Do to Lower My Alzheimer’s Risk and Dementia?
Neurologist David Perlmutter, MD, shares nine strategies for preventing cognitive decline.
Can Brain Retraining Help Me Recover From Long COVID?
Lingering symptoms from long COVID and other chronic-pain conditions might result from faulty feedback loops in the nervous system. Brain training can help resolve them.
How Are High-Dose Vitamin C Infusions Being Used for Cancer?
Learn more about this treatment and how it works to support radiation and chemotherapy.
PUMPING IRONY: For Seniors Seeking an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis, Location Matters
In the latest evidence of widespread inequities in our healthcare system, researchers have found that dementia sufferers are about twice as likely to get a diagnosis in certain regions of the country than in others.
Exercise May Reduce Prostate-Cancer Risk
Here’s the takeaway from a recent study.
What Are Some of the Health Consequences of Eating Junk Food?
Eating ultraprocessed food may increase the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and anxiety, according to a recent review. Here’s why.