According to every story that we are told about ourselves, left to our own devices, without the taming influence of religion or a social contract, we would act according to our true natures —

Nicholas Christakis, a professor of sociology and medicine at Yale University has a particular passion: how a person is affected by his social network. As a sociologist, Christakis studies how and why “nodes” —

Several months ago, in our magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You, we featured an amazing article on the power of Ayurvedic herbal medicine to treat cancer. A few months ago, Bryan Hubbard, my husband

After a torrid summer, with renewed warnings about UV sunlight and cancer, and the need for suncream to block out ultraviolet (UV) rays, the latest medical treatments suggest that UV light may actually be

One of the most dangerous aspects of modern society today is the tendency to view everything through a political lens. Take the recent announcement from US President Donald Trump that Tylenol – acetaminophen or

Live from the cave! I’m just back from a holiday break in Sardinia, but Bryan and I weren’t simply lolling about on sunloungers.  We had an Indiana Jones moment, thanks to a

Doctors are stymied about mental illness. Some 280 million people around the world suffer from depression – but psychiatry still puzzles over the causes and the treatment (new evidence shows that the 4-stage drug

Many of you have asked: when are we going to hear about the results of the February 1 Intention Experiment® to lower violence in Washington, D. C.? As you may recall, I ran this

Big Pharma loves nothing better than an all-purpose drug: statins for cholesterol but also for heart disease, HRT for menopause but also for Alzheimer’s, Ozempic for diabetes but also for weight loss and God

In recent months, we’ve attended a few outdoor classical concerts –glorious celebrations of music during clear and starry summer evenings, so welcomed in the often rain-sodden country where we live.  Our most recent

It is not the end of the world just yet, but we all harbor the uneasy sense that we’ve reached the end of something, closed a chapter on our own history, arrived at a

During a retreat that we were running in converted monasteries in Spain in 2019 I had a conversation with two American doctors, a husband and wife team, that has stayed with me.