Author: Richard C. Trotter

Researchers in China say they’ve used stem cell therapy to reverse type 1 diabetes in a 25-year-old woman. She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of treatment for the autoimmune condition, which was previously thought to be incurable (though there is a recently approved drug to delay type 1 diabetes onset). The findings, published in September in the journal Cell, note that before treatment, the woman’s body could not produce insulin on its own and that she needed “substantial amounts” of prescription insulin to survive. But three months after the treatment (which involved extracting…

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After a grueling “yoga sculpt” session that involved so many push-ups that I wasn’t sure I’d be able to roll out of bed properly the next day, I rushed off to lunch with a friend, still sweaty despite a post-workout shower. I knew she’d ask what type of exercise I’d just done, and I struggled with whether I’d tell her the truth that I’d just taken a yoga class that involved weights and bursts of cardio. We’d first met during yoga teacher training 15 years ago, and continued to compare notes about both the shallow and deeper aspects of the…

In 2008, Haley R. (whose full name we’ll withhold for privacy) was just 18 years old when she started to notice strange things happening to her body. Seemingly out of the blue, she’d get flares of thick, scaly, red patches all across her face, along with other skin and full-body issues like joint pain and fatigue. All of her symptoms seemed random and not quite connected. That is, until she found out she has a rare condition called autoimmune progesterone dermatitis—aka, an allergy to her menstrual cycle. Apart from red face patches, the Austin, Texas-based artist and product designer would…

Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on pinterest Share on email There’s a lot Americans disagree on in 2024. Politics are more divisive than ever; social media fuels heated arguments about parenting styles; and we’ll be debating if skinny jeans are cool until the day we die (at least, this millennial will). One thing we can all agree on, though? We’re tired. And not in an, “I stayed up partying one too many nights in a row and need an entire week to recover” kind of…

Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on pinterest Share on email The first thing my dad told me after my daughter’s birth was, “Watch, you’ll get used to the shorter sleep—four hours is all you need.”  He was right.  Before pregnancy, I was an eight-hour-or-nothing person, but as a new mom, I quickly learned to survive on a couple of hours at a time and about six hours per day.  During the first few months, my fiancé and I woke every two hours to decode the…

It’s easy to assume your cooking utensils and food containers are safe to touch actual food (that’s what they’re made for, after all). But new research suggests that may not be the case. The study, published in the journal Chemosphere, detected high levels of toxic flame retardants in black-colored plastic, including kitchen utensils, food containers, toys, and trays used to hold grocery meat and produce. The fire retardants detected included decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE), which was banned by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2021. DecaBDE is in a class of flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). Experts In This Article…

☀️ From their go-to breakfasts to their meditative moments, Morning Person explores the get-ready routines of your favorite people. ☀️ SEE MORE Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson East, and her husband Andrew East, a former NFL player, are, quite frankly, power couple goals. In addition to being a decorated gymnast who competed for Team USA at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Shawn is also a New York Times best-selling author, and was a Yahoo sports correspondent for the 2024 Olympics. Together, Shawn and Andrew have a podcast, and are active on Instagram sharing fun physical challenges and relatable family…

Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on pinterest Share on email When it comes to getting rest, it’s natural to think of crawling under the covers as a quick fix for exhaustion, sleepiness, and general world weariness. But not all forms of rest involve sleep—and it’s time we stop putting sleep and rest in the same category. “Both sleep and rest are beneficial and necessary,” says Patty Johnson, PsyD, clinical psychologist at Nia Integrative Healing. But “it’s important to differentiate between the two, because while sleep…

Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on pinterest Share on email If you’ve ever found yourself in one of those slumps where, despite getting eight hours of sleep a night, you still find yourself absolutely drained, know that you’re not alone. Though we often view sleep as the be-all end-all for fixing exhaustion, it’s actually just one type of rest. In fact, what’s keeping you from feeling fully restored may actually be a different type of rest deficit, according to Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD, internal medicine physician…