Whose life have you touched without knowing it?
No doubt you’ve seen or heard about one of the most beloved movies of this holiday time, if not of all time: It’s a Wonderful Life, released in 1946 but reliably re-rerun every year
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Our celebration: 414 Points of Light
This is a day we never expected to reach, much less celebrate. In January 1990 – some 36 years ago – we both had a crazy idea: to launch our own health newsletter. Bryan
The meaning in my life? Baby, it’s you
Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year – the moment we pause from frantic holiday gift buying or work to ponder what we’re grateful for and who we’re
Episode 62: Born to give
In this podcast episode, we use Thanksgiving’s spirit of generosity to challenge the idea that humans are “born selfish.” Born to Give reveals how biology and behavior show our deepest instinct is to help,
Brains on fire
In 1967, Nobel prize winner Dr Linus Pauling, one of the founders of molecular biology, chanced across several papers written by Dr Abram Hoffer and Dr Humphry Osmond. To his astonishment, the Canadian psychiatrists
Our unselfish genes
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 —
The extraordinary power of pay it forward
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” —
Anti-cancer herbal heroes
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
Seeing the light
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
The politics of Tylenol
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
The 6400-year-old message
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
Grains on the brain
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