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By Ariana Eunjung Cha The young woman described to a jury what it was like to lose control of her life to social media. She began as a child, she said, and over time the habit expanded to fill nearly every available hour — late nights bleeding into early mornings,...
By Tammy LaGorce After an eight-year relationship ended in 2021, Chloe Bow started imagining what life might look like if she gave up on marriage. Ms. Bow, now 33, of Toronto, spent much of her 20s living with a boyfriend who became her fiancé. Then, during the...
By Advisory Board staff In 2014, Ezekiel Emanuel — a prominent health policy expert, medical ethicist, and oncologist — wrote an infamous article in The Atlantic called "Why I Hope to Die at 75." Now, just seven years from his 75th birthday, Emanuel speaks with The...
By Trisha Pasricha, MD Science has finally settled the age-old debate of whose farts smell worse — men or women. But to appreciate the answer, you need to understand how researchers figured it out. The methodology alone deserves an award. The man responsible is Dr....
By Luisa Torres As we age, the risk of falling increases and becomes increasingly perilous. A fall can be a real health setback for a frail, elderly person. And, more older adults are dying from falls today than 20 years ago. A recent study showed that more than...
By Mark A. Mahoney, Ph.D., R.D.N. As we draw nearer to the end of National Nutrition Month consider some of the following ways to help improve our nutritional intake as we age. Healthy eating is recommended throughout life, but as we age certain factors can affect our...
By Gina Kolata Your potential life span is written in your genes, according to a new study. You can lengthen it a bit with a healthy lifestyle. But if your genetic potential is to live to be 80, for example, it is unlikely that anything you do will push your age at...
By Mikkael Sekeres, MD As much as we all want to avoid consuming or breathing in dangerous chemicals and pollutants, they may be impossible to escape. Half the world’s population is exposed to increasing amounts of air pollution, mainly due to energy production,...
By Paula Span The patient initially came to see Dr. Mark Supiano in 2017 because her family was concerned about her short-term memory loss. While taking her history and vital signs, Dr. Supiano, a geriatrician at the University of Utah, saw one disturbing signal: Her...
By Kathleen Willcox Every time you get out of bed, leave your home, or just take a breath, you take a risk. Just ask your overprotective, hypochondriac grandfather: you could catch someone’s nasty germs, sprain your ankle, get hit by a vehicle driven by some nut, and...
By Dana G. Smith As a child, Dr. Dhruv Kazi was obsessed with dogs. As a cardiologist and health economist, he wrote about their health benefits. But he didn’t get one of his own until his early 40s. In 2019, he moved to Boston to take a job as the director of the...
By Emily Oster February is the month things go south in our exercise routines. The excitement of New Year’s resolutions fades and the dark and cold keep us in bed, rather than on the treadmill. This is a shame, because regular exercise is really beneficial. It can...
By Mark A. Mahoney, Ph.D., R.D.N. In today’s stressful society with news reports and events occurring that can lead us toward an ever-increasing amount of stress and anxiety, one approach which can help is that of mindfulness to help address the uncertainty. The...
By Caitlin Carlson When Deborah M. Kado attends cocktail parties, she says people ask her all the time about what medications they “should” be taking or what she thinks about certain prescription medications used for longevity. “From the beginning of humanity, people...
By Carolyn Y. Johnson Neuroscientist Karen Konkoly is a lucid dreamer. When she’s asleep and immersed in a dream, she knows that she is, in fact, dreaming. One of her favorite things to do during these sleep sojourns is pose personal, even existential questions —...
By Dana G. Smith Take a minute to consider the last decade of your life. What type of physical shape do you hope to be in? And what are the activities you want to be able to continue doing? While there’s no crystal ball to predict your future health, there are a few...
By Jackson Holtz Mindfulness meditation is a stress-management practice with ancient lineage that cultivates nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment, often by directing attention to the physical sensations of breathing. Initially inspired by centuries-old...
By Hilary Achauer These days, you might think you have to become a power lifter to age well. Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, a celebrity physician, calls muscles “the organ of longevity.” For Dr. Peter Attia, they’re “the most important retirement accounts you can have.” We’re...
By Adrienne Matei Here’s a new trend that sounds unwise: buying unregulated substances from dealers in foreign countries and injecting them into your body. And yet, grey-market injectable peptides – a category of substances with obscure, alphanumeric names like...
by Mark A. Mahoney, Ph.D., R.D.N. A past column a couple years ago spoke to the importance of some basic lifestyle suggestions for improving one’s quality of life. As we transition into 2026 it is important to reiterate many of the suggestions from the past which...
