When painful gums turn life-threatening

by Julissa Clay | Jul 12, 2025

Think of inflammation in your mouth as a tiny campfire that never quite burns out. Over time, sparks — or in this case, bacteria and inflammatory chemicals — can drift through your bloodstream and ignite flames in far-off organs like your heart, lungs, and brain....

How this non-joint Arthritis factor kills

by ShellyManning | Jul 10, 2025

If you have arthritis, there’s something outside your joints that puts your health at even greater risk than pain, stiffness, or daily struggles. A major new study published in Scientific Reports found that social isolation significantly increases the risk of death...

The worst High Blood Pressure food

by Christian Goodman | Jul 9, 2025

There’s a ton of research out there which tells us what to eat and what to avoid to keep our blood pressure healthy. But it can often be hard to sift through the fads and ads to find the true information. So today we’ve done the work for you. We’ve identified the...

Diabetes surprising link to food colors

by Jodi Knapp | Jul 8, 2025

If you want to improve your type 2 diabetes and live longer, scientists have found a surprisingly simple dietary trick: eat a wider variety of colorful plant foods every day. Their study appears in the latest edition of the journal Nature Food. Flavonoids are plant...

This massage reverses Alzheimer’s

by Christian Goodman | Jul 6, 2025

Your brain works incredibly hard, and just like any busy factory, it produces waste that needs to be cleared out. Now, researchers from the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea have discovered something remarkable. You see, gently massaging your face and neck...

This gut bacteria beats Osteoporosis

by ShellyManning | Jul 5, 2025

Your bones might receive help from an unexpected source: the trillions of bacteria living in your gut. An interesting new study published in npj Metabolic Health and Disease found that certain gut bacteria can actually help maintain bone density and protect against...