Painkillers and supplements are tempting go-to treatments, despite health risks and sketchy effectiveness — More than 70% of Americans 50 and older say they have joint pain, according to a new survey, and 80% of them believe arthritis and joint pain are a normal part of aging. This perception, while it holds a grain of truth, obscures a rapidly growing reality: More and more…

What We Found After Analyzing Nearly 55.000 Studies Credit: Nicole Avagliano Why does psychotherapy work? Until relatively recently, many scientists studying methods of improving mental and behavioral health have delayed answering that question. …

Emotional states are as contagious as even the most potent of viruses, knowing this can help you stop catching negative emotional states and thus massively improve your mental well-being — Ever heard of the phrase, yawns are contagious. They are not the only things that are contagious, emotional states are too, so contagious that we can pass on or catch an emotional state in milliseconds. Yep, no jokes. It has been found through countless studies that we truly do pass…

He now can train in the gym and can hug his grandchildren — I came across this story and felt I just had to share it due to how amazing it is. …

Knowing these facts about how the metabolism works will help you stay healthy — The metabolism is one of the most important functions in the human body but is also an extremely misunderstood function. Here are 17 facts that will give you a better understanding of the metabolism and in the process help you understand how to better keep yourself fit and healthy. The metabolism is not an organ, it is the name for a group of chemical reactions

Have you wondered what causes the average human to die at 80? — Many marine animals make our average life expectancy of 80 years seem like a really bad deal. Bowhead whales can live more than 200 years. The Rougheye rockfish has a maximum life expectancy of at least 205 years, and Greenland sharks are estimated to live at least 272 years. On…

Whether it was from a blog post or the instruction manual of your new wearable health device, you’ve probably heard along the way that taking 10,000 steps a day is good for you. If you’re keen to maximize your health, energy, and productivity, you probably took that advice. It makes…

Our brains shrink, men’s penises shrink, we lose our hair, and much more — If you want to know what will happen to you as you age, you have come to the right place. Here are the main 30 things that happen to our bodies as we age. Disclaimer: before reading this remember, good things really do happen to us as we age… I’m…

Often when we think we are hungry we are actually thirsty, this leads us to eat when we don’t need to — Hunger is a more powerful force than both fear and thirst. This is despite the fact that we would die of thirst long before we died of hunger. …

Ever wondered why people these days struggle to keep their weight down, here are the five real reasons — The Western world is in the midst of a weight crisis, more people than ever are overweight. The popular argument is sedentary jobs are the main problem along with fast-food and processed food, and they do play a part, but there is more to it. …

Seven alternative ways of improving your health and fitness — The gym is not for everyone, nor is exercising in general. Here are seven ways that you can improve your health and fitness along with your general well-being that don’t involve going to the gym. Ten minute at-home workout You don’t need weights, you don’t even need resistance bands, if you wish to and…

Ten simple methods that I learned to help keep my weight under control — Losing weight is one thing, the hard thing is keeping it off. These are ten ways that helped me not only lose weight, but keep it off. Cutting out sauces One of the simplest ways that helped me not only lose weight, but keep it off, was cutting out sauces. Literally, it’s amazing…

I’ve learned there is only one person who can teach you how to get into great shape — Getting great abs is extremely difficult, and not just for the vast majority of people, for everyone. …

Understanding how people get great abs can help to help make you feel better about not having abs — There are three key elements that you need to understand to get a rocking six-pack: Exercise Diet Genetics Where many people go wrong is in not understanding how the above three elements interlink. The amount of exercise and the type of exercise, along with the sort of dieting that you…

We don’t just smile when we are happy we sometimes smile to hide the fact that we are not — Something that has always amazed me is how often the people with the happiest and brightest smiles, can turn out to be the ones most broken inside. Take Hollywood legend Robin Williams, he always seemed such a happy person, a man who was able to see the bright side and…

These five things helped me go from having decent abs to having great abs — Everybody’s body is different and so responds differently to exercise and diet, meaning the path to getting great abs is a personal one. Some people have to eat loads of carbs, some people have to cut out loads of carbs. …

Here are seven tips which if utilised will help to protect you from those who wish to take advantage of you — Those who take advantage of others do so by trying to get as much as they can from a person for as little as they can offer in return. …

I used to be trapped in an endless war of my own making, this question helped me escape it — Back in 2008, I tore the scapholunate ligament in my right wrist. Despite this, mentally I remained in a world where I could still use my hands without any problems. My mind was unable to compute even the thought of not returning to exactly how I was — two fully…

Stopping drinking alcohol and continuing to party taught me the true power of alcohol — In my late teens and early twenties, I was big on the party scene, I was out nearly every night and to say that my alcohol tolerance level was high, would be an understatement. But then one day, mainly because I decided that I wanted to remember my life rather…