MediumWellness Doom and Bloom: The Growing Millennial Obsession with Houseplantsmedium.com - Erin Quinlan Young adults are turning into plant parents as a manifestation of deep mourning over the planet they are inheriting The droughts were so bad that …
MediumPain Painful Sex Is More Common Than You Think. Is There a Fix?medium.com - Lux Alptraum For the first decade of Emily Sauer’s sex life, pain felt like an unavoidable aspect of the pursuit of pleasure. During certain positions, she’d be …
MediumSkin Moisturizers Don’t Work for Everyonemedium.com - Mariana Lenharo New science underlines how to find one that actually soothes Certain moisturizers might be doing more harm than good for people with sensitive skin, …
Medium The Power of Bedside Manner on Painmedium.com - Ashley Abramson New research shows how doctors’ beliefs and attitudes impact patient outcomes When he practiced as a psychotherapist, Luke Chang, PhD, now an …
MediumWellness Why Your Doctor Can’t Tell You What to Eatmedium.com - Brittany Risher Researchers call for better nutrition education in the medical curriculum What do diabetes, heart disease, and obesity have in common? The right diet …
MediumCancer My Breast Cancer All but Announced Itselfmedium.com - Kate Pickert A cancer diagnosis does not usually happen all at once. Rather than a single somber conversation with an oncologist, a patient generally learns the …
MediumMarijuana What to Know About Men, Marijuana, and Miscarriagemedium.com - Dana G Smith A new study links men’s marijuana use to miscarriage. But there’s more to the story. New research suggests that men who use marijuana more than once a …
MediumWellness The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMImedium.com - Your Fat Friend Body Mass Index has been used in recent decades as a referendum on individual health. But it was never meant to be. I walk out of the doctor’s office, …
MediumWellness I Can’t Afford Your Wellness, but My Self-Care Is Good Enoughmedium.com - Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez I’ve always known it was important to be “healthy.” But for much of my life, I didn’t know how to get there. Growing up in the South, “health” was …
MediumWellness ‘Weight Doesn’t Measure Health in Any Way, Shape or Form’medium.com - Alex Bhattacharji Elemental: Soon after you turned your focus to obesity and bariatric medicine, you began amassing an extensive collection of historical weight-loss …
MediumWellness Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?medium.com - Markham Heid Writing in 1889, the Swiss pathologist Ernst Ziegler observed that “a brief and precise definition of inflammation is altogether impossible.” Even …
MediumWellness You Probably Don’t Need That $600 Massage Gunmedium.com - Brittany Risher The biggest claim about massage guns is their ability to ease muscles that are sore or tight from working out or being on your feet all day. Muscle …
MediumWellness How Much Fighting in a Relationship Is Too Much?medium.com - Angela Lashbrook Learning the difference between constructive and destructive conflict. (Throwing cellphones: not constructive.) In “Tell Me Why,” she tells the story …
MediumWellness How to Combat ‘Flight, Fight, and Freeze’medium.com - Ashley Abramson Stress isn’t just an emotional experience — it’s a physiological process. Whether you’re nervously preparing to give a presentation at work or having …
MediumWellness Parents and Kids Are Still Being Fooled by Beverage Marketersmedium.com - Robert Roy Britt Misleading and deceptive labels on sweetened drinks aimed at children contribute to their dominance over real juice — the stuff made 100% from fruit …
MediumNicotine How Hard Is it to Quit Vaping?medium.com - Allie Volpe E-cigarettes were meant to help people quit smoking, but now Americans are having a hard time putting down the vapes Close to 1,300 people in the …
MediumIcon version of the Flipboard logoNicotine How Hard is it to Quit Vaping?medium.com - Allie Volpe E-cigarettes were meant to help people quit smoking, but now Americans are having a hard time putting down the vapes Close to 1,300 people in the …
MediumIcon version of the Flipboard logoNicotine How Hard Is It to Quit Vaping?medium.com - Allie Volpe E-cigarettes were meant to help people quit smoking, but now Americans are having a hard time putting down the vapes Close to 1,300 people in the …
MediumWellness Can an At-Home Test Tell Me I’m Biologically Depressed?medium.com - Ashley Laderer Neurotransmitter testing kits promise insights into your mental health based on a simple urine analysis Today, from the comfort of my own home, I can …
MediumIcon version of the Flipboard logoWellness Can an At-Home Test Tell If You’re Biologically Depressed?medium.com - Ashley Laderer Neurotransmitter testing kits promise insights into mental health based on a simple urine analysis Today, from the comfort of my own home, I can spit …
MediumWellness What If You Only Sometimes Work Out?medium.com - Joline Buscemi It’s pretty common to have an on-again, off-again relationship with exercise. But isn’t working out sometimes better than not working out at all? New …
MediumVirtual Reality Spa Treatments Are Going Virtualmedium.com - Rebecca Nelson The virtual reality spa experience functions like a choose your own adventure. At Esqapes, customers have the choice of 11 different “experiences,” …
MediumOptometry Modern Living Is Giving Us Bad Eyesightmedium.com - Dana G Smith By 2030, 40% of the world’s population will be nearsighted, up from 28% in 2010. The number of people with high myopia—severe short-sightedness—is …
MediumIcon version of the Flipboard logoVirtual Reality An Unreal Way to Relaxmedium.com - Rebecca Nelson The virtual reality spa experience functions like a choose your own adventure. At Esqapes, customers have the choice of 11 different “experiences,” …
MediumWellness The Scam of Deadly Fitness Supplementsmedium.com - Andrew Zaleski Shoddy supplement makers may be headed for jail due to deaths among men and women using their pills. But will anything change? When Leanne Sparling …
MediumWellness ‘Snake Oil’ Stem Cell Clinics Peddle False Hope for High Pricesmedium.com - Karen Weintraub Hundreds of clinics have popped up across the U.S., promising miracle cures without scientific backing Doris Tyler, a retired elementary school music …
MediumDisease Why Drugs for Alzheimer’s Are So Hard to Developmedium.com - Dalmeet Singh Chawla Medium: Why is it so difficult to develop drugs for Alzheimer’s disease? David Geldmacher: One of the biggest issues in coming up with effective …
MediumSkin I Asked Skin Care Apps to Fix My Facemedium.com - Julissa Treviño New tech promises to diagnose your skin problems with selfies and AI I have a huge pimple on my cheek when I try Olay’s skin analysis app, Skin …
MediumWellness The Next Big Thing in Health Is Your Exposomemedium.com - Veronique Greenwood From sewer sludge to mosquito repellant, one scientist is exploring how daily exposures determine our health Our health is a combination of genetics …
MediumIntermittent Fasting How I Use Intermittent Fasting to Simplify My Lifemedium.com - Darius Foroux I do it because it allows me to be more efficient, but it’s not for everyone I started intermittent fasting three years ago. Multiple studies show …
