How your poop schedule could be a sign of your health

You’ve been through a thousand different treatments for your lower back pain and nothing seems to work. In your darkest moments, you think maybe you’re just going to have to deal with this for the rest of your life if no treatment seems to do anything to alleviate the pain. According to depressing …

If I have hiccups for more than a minute, I start to wonder if being alive is all it’s cracked up to be. And then I hold my breath for a bit, the hiccups go away, and I go on living my life like I just didn’t just have a very dark thought. I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like to be a guy at the …

A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that when it comes to longevity, your lifestyle and environment matter more than your genes. The research, led by researchers from Oxford Population Health, looked at extensive data from over 490,000 people in the UK Biobank, including their …

It turns out that, in at least one way, you are very much like a dog. Specifically, a golden retriever, and no, it is not in your enthusiastic yet dimwitted loyalty to your loved ones. It’s in your fat. Or, rather, it’s in the genes that are responsible for making you obese. Videos by VICE A study …