You feel angry. You feel joy. You feel fear. These emotions seem to arrive fully formed, as if anger is a distinct state your brain enters. We treat emotions like they’re hardwired responses, basic instincts that evolution built into us. But according to one theory that’s not what’
Millions of people around the world suffer from indigestion. But when they think of the problem, they tend to centralize is an ailment of the stomach. But digestion is not a single event. It is a long, coordinated journey that unfolds across distinct parts of your body. Each part is
Do you know someone who has been prescribed a beta blocker? Do you understand why it has been prescribed and what it is doing to your body? Most of us simply follow instructions. The doctor has asked me to take beta blockers, and so I am taking it, you might
Your body needs twenty amino acids. A few of them are categorized essential amino’s. Essential simply means your body cannot make it and you need to consume it. Methionine is one of the essential amino acids. So what is methionine and what does it do? To understand this, we
Did you wake up this morning feeling stiff? Joints, hands, perhaps the entire body? If you have and wondered why you wake up feeling this way, allow me to explain. When asleep, your heartbeat slows down. What we proudly call our resting heart rate. One consequence is reduced circulation. Lower
The food you eat is converted to fat if you eat more than you need. It gets stored in your body inside fat cells. What you and I call excess weight. But have you ever wondered why it is stored as fat? The reason actually lies somewhere else. Your body
At any given point in time, you can experience your body. Where your hands are. What sensations you feel. Pain, heat, cold. This is known as somatosensation. The ability of the human body to sense touch, temperature, pain, pressure, vibration, and the position of your limbs in space. In essence,
There has been a profusion of wellness advocates, practitioners and solution providers. In the context of health, you share all sorts of information about yourself. Not just blood reports but intimate details. Have you ever wondered what happens to this data? In a traditional hospital, they follow something known as
In health, we are always seeking a marker that shows good health. The equivalent of what is to illness, one marker that shows good health. There is perhaps no better marker than VO2max. So what is it, what does it show and how can you build yours? VO2max captures the
I am old enough to not recall when I first encountered social media. In the beginning, it was wonderful to reconnect with old friends. But today, social media is associated with doom scrolling. It has quietly become one of the biggest drains on the modern mind. When you scroll endlessly
The human body did not evolve to be extraordinarily lean nor excessively muscular. It evolved to survive. The best way to survive is through balance. In science, we call it homeostasis. When you evaluate the human body through this lens, you can form an objective view on perhaps the most
Most of you reading would concur. You are getting forgetful. You forget names. You forget tasks. You forget where you were supposed to be going. But are you really losing your memory? I guess the question is whether you lost your memory or you simply cannot retrieve it. It is