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Regulating the amount of light in our environment is crucial for a good night's sleep and a good mood the next day. Habits such as using blue light-emitting ...
When a person consumes a ketogenic diet, profound metabolic changes occur as the body shifts from burning glucose to using fatty acids and ketones. These cha...
Eating a typical Western diet – high in processed foods and sugar-sweetened beverages – raises blood glucose and insulin levels, promotes inflammation, and c...
Zinc is an essential nutrient that participates in many biological processes and plays critical roles in immune function, protein synthesis, wound healing, D...
In recent decades, lifestyle practices have emerged as viable strategies for treating symptoms of depression. Online resources that combine healthful practic...
Inflammation is an important aspect of immunity. Robust evidence indicates that increased inflammation is linked with depression. Some scientists think that ...
The physiological responses to sauna use are incredibly similar to those experienced during moderate- to vigorous-intensity exercise. As a result, sauna use ...
Diet plays an essential role in immune function. Consequently, deficiencies or insufficiencies in vitamins or minerals can impair immune function. The gut mi...
Statins can reduce the risk of heart disease by 30 to 40 percent due to their ability to increase LDL receptor activity and reduce blood cholesterol levels. ...
Vitamin D is a hormone produced in the body. People who have poor vitamin D status are more likely to test positive for COVID-19. In the setting of COVID-19,...
Airplanes are closed, cramped spaces that seem ideal for COVID-19 transmission. Even so, surprisingly few COVID-19 infections have been reported from air tra...
Cholesterol is vital to human health, but an oversimplified view of cholesterol — that high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is good, and low-density li...
Having a healthy, robust immune system is crucial for our survival. Critical players in the body's antiviral immune response are interferons. Certain lifesty...
Sleep affects aspects of our mental and cognitive health. Not getting enough sleep triggers the onset of a "loneliness phenotype," driving people who are sle...
Poor sleep reduces the body's insulin sensitivity and changes a person's appetite, increasing the preference for high carbohydrate foods like pizza, pasta, a...
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