For at least 70 years, the West has been consumed by the notion of healthy eating, but what exactly constitutes ‘health foods’ has been a highly moveable feast, with a new theory emerging with

It’s my birthday today, and in honor of it, I wanted to share with you a good news story that will warm your heart, restore your faith in humanity and provide a wonderful object

Happy New Year to you, dear friends!  I hope you had a lovely holiday and a joyful New Year, and are looking forward to 2026 with optimism. And there are plenty of reasons to

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

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

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

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

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