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For much of our history as a species, the threat of chronic food shortage and malnutrition has loomed over us. Fortunate... Read more

About 40% of people worldwide will get lower back pain at some point in life, and on any given day roughly 12% of adults... Read more

On this episode of humanOS Radio, Dan welcomes Daniel Gartenberg to the show. Dan has dedicated his life to helping peop... Read more

In this episode, Dan speaks with Bruce Hay, Professor of Biology at Caltech. Much of Professor Hay’s work focuses on the... Read more

Nutrition is perhaps the most emotionally charged of all of the applied sciences. It’s not hard to see why. For one thin... Read more

So much of the discussion on nutrition is about the food itself. What's discussed far less regularly is the impact of fo... Read more

Protein is really important for dieting success, right? Anyone who has interested in the science of dieting knows this, ... Read more

Dietary fat is a class of nutrients of which there are many different types. Some types appear to have clear beneficial ... Read more

We know that as people age, they tend to get less sleep. But older people also seem to suffer less when subjected to sle... Read more

Light is essential to life as we know it. Plants rely upon sunlight to generate chemical energy, which is stored in thei... Read more

Why do we age? The fundamental causes of aging at the molecular level are relatively well established. But the question ... Read more

Where to you get the energy to do something hard or inconvenient? It matters because so much of what's important in life... Read more

Most of us know that the majority of our cellular energy is manufactured within mitochondria which are organelles that d... Read more

We associate getting older with a loss of energy. On the molecular level, this is quite literally true, because one of t... Read more

Why is that we tend to see many diseases of aging occur around the same time in life? One reason is that we accumulate s... Read more

All of us have heard the aphorism, “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” This maxim, of course, is usual... Read more

Why is it so hard for us to make healthy lifestyle changes - even when we have the knowledge to do better? Most of us ha... Read more

Stress is something we all experience all too frequently. The effects of different stressors accumulate, and when the re... Read more

All of us know that lack of sleep impairs cognitive performance. But we are now realizing that sleep quality, and how lo... Read more

“Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.” - Corneliu Giurge... Read more