Research reveals effective methods that get beyond one-off tips — Dane McCarrick knows that if left to fester, stress causes not just mental anguish but physiological changes that lead to sundry health problems. …

New research reveals the best time to go to bed — Here’s a bedtime story I think you’ll really like, one that vindicates my lifelong early-to-bed, early-to-rise ways, one I plan to make required reading for my night-owl wife so we can maybe spend more of our waking hours together. New research reveals the ideal hour to go to bed —…

Brief but hard-core weightlifting yields surprising benefits when repeated daily — When university students did bicep curls or isometrics at maximum effort for just three seconds, five days a week for four weeks, their biceps grew 10% stronger compared to a control group that did no specific exercising. While that might not be Jack LaLane-level strengthening, it adds to a growing…

A pro-aging mindset will help you enjoy rather than fear the inevitable — Maria Shriver this week revealed an anti-aging secret that people of all ages need to know about: “I’m pro-aging — and officially ditching the term ‘anti-aging’ from my vocabulary,” she writes on Oprah Daily. “The old storyline about aging — how we need to ‘fix’ ourselves or do everything in…

Too many people die alone, leaving families to grieve remotely — One year ago this week, my 85-year-old father knew he’d die soon. Swiftly advancing cancer had left his body failing rapidly. There was nothing left to do but take pain medication and wait. But he was among the lucky, in one respect, and so was his family. Dad’s brain remained…

Six ways to ‘prevent, treat, and often reverse’ chronic diseases — All the medications ever invented can’t put America’s health back together again. Not because drugs never work, but because we individuals and our health care system at large have come to rely on pharmaceuticals far too heavily, at the expense of simple behaviors known to prevent and battle many of…

Short on time? No problem. Just pick up the pace, new research suggests. — Great scientific strides have been made in recent years to show convincingly that walking is among the simplest and most effective ways for anyone at any age to improve mood, boost physical health, curb chronic pain, and help prevent disease every step of the way. The well-established bar for achieving…

A positive perspective on aging predicts better health and longer life — Your well-being later in life and even how long you live may depend on whether you fear getting older, or if you instead embrace aging and maintain a positive outlook about your future self. …

Psychologists explain why people don’t want to care, while those most vulnerable to Covid plea that we would — One thing we all seem to agree on: We’re tired of pandemic prevention measures. Yet we remain bitterly divided over our willingness to nonetheless make individual efforts to help protect our fellow humans, particularly the most vulnerable, from the deadliest disease outbreak in more than a century. …