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Medical Notes: Your Hometown May Be Making You Sick, Why Marriage Is Good For Your Health, And The Best Diet For Brain Function

What’s the best food for your brain? A new study in the journal Metabolic Brain Disease reveals the best diet to keep your mind healthy. Following a low-carbohydrate or low-calorie meal plan was shown to improve brain metabolism. Researchers found that just two weeks of this diet slowed cognitive decline and supported long-term brain function.

todayOctober 29, 2025

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Food Fight Pt.2: Demands For A Healthier Future

The modern food industry has turned our diets into a profit-driven enterprise, often at the expense of public health. Our expert this week proposes a new framework to rebuild a healthier, more ethical global food system. Though there’s a lot of work to be done, we’re already seeing ongoing policy efforts and growing awareness around

todayOctober 26, 2025

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Soul Eaters: The Hidden History Of Medicinal Cannibalism In Europe

In Early Modern Europe, the question wasn’t ‘should you eat humans for medicine’, it was ‘what type of humans should you eat for medicine?’ Though some attempted to erase the cannibalistic practices of this period from our history books, our expert explains how people were using human bones, blood, and fat to heal themselves. Guest

todayOctober 26, 2025

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Medical Notes: How Ultra-Processed Foods Affect Reproductive Health, Reversing Your Age, And Patients Are Being Misdiagnosed As ‘Brain Dead’

People marked as ‘brain dead’ may have been misdiagnosed. Thousands of patients are labeled as ‘unresponsive’ each year, but new research reveals that 25 percent of those assumptions are wrong. Some patients are conscious, they just can’t show it. Thankfully, a new AI tool called see-me can detect small signs of consciousness by analyzing microscopic

todayOctober 22, 2025

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Burning Point: Why Aren’t Workers Protected From Extreme Heat?

As extreme heat becomes more common across America, outdoor and factory workers face deadly risks on the job. Despite numerous heat-related deaths each year, safety standards remain inconsistent and vary widely between states. Advocates are now pushing for nationwide regulations to guarantee every worker access to shade, water, rest, and the right to speak up

todayOctober 19, 2025

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Food Fight: How The Global Food Industry’s Greed Is Killing Humanity

Nutrition expert Stuart Gillespie has spent decades uncovering how the same system that causes hunger also fuels obesity – the global food industry. His research exposes how corporations have turned food into a commodity, prioritizing profit over health while hiding behind aid programs and misleading science. Gillespie breaks down the global food system’s strategy that

todayOctober 19, 2025

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CAR-T Cell Therapy: Pioneering The Future Of Cancer Treatment

CAR T-cell therapy is a groundbreaking cancer treatment that reprograms a patient’s own immune cells to recognize and destroy cancer. First approved by the FDA in 2017, it’s already shown success in patients with blood cancers that no longer respond to standard treatments. While the therapy can cause serious side effects, our expert this week

todayOctober 12, 2025

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AI Therapy: Can An Algorithm Help You More Than A Human?

Will AI therapy promote even more isolation within society? Dr. Michael Heinz, a research psychiatrist, is part of a team using generative AI to act as a therapist for people with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. He explains how this always-available AI therapist measures up to human-based therapy, and how AI best fits into the

todayOctober 12, 2025