‘Good’ cholesterol may decrease your risk of Alzheimer’s disease
(Jessica Norris/ Medical News Today) — Alzheimer’s disease is a debilitating condition that primarily affects older adults. People who have it can become forgetful and become unable to carry out tasks of daily living. Currently, the disorder has no cure. Researchers are still trying to understand how the disease develops, …
Link between Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis is a crucial discovery
(Michael S. Levin/ The Conversation) — Canada has one of the highest rates of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the world, with 250 out of every 100,000 people affected.
MS is an autoimmune disease in which elements of the immune system that are designed to protect us — white blood cells and antibodies — instead begin to damage …
10 anti-aging foods to support your 40s-and-beyond body
(Nathalie Rhone/ Healthline) — When we pack our diet with vibrant foods loaded with antioxidants, healthy fats, water, and essential nutrients, our body will show its appreciation through its largest organ: our skin.
After all, the skin is often the first part of our body to show internal trouble, and there’s only so much …
Conversations with fertility specialists: what to expect
(Simone Marie/ Healthline) — If you’ve been trying to conceive for more than a year, you may be experiencing infertility.
Most medical professionals define infertility as the inability to get pregnant after 1 year or longer of sex without birth control.
If you’re over 35 years old, many healthcare professionals consider …
Women experience headaches twice as much as men. Here’s why
(Sarah Jacoby/ Today) — Headaches are a real pain — and headache disorders are surprisingly widespread. In fact, a new study published today in The Journal of Headache and Pain suggests headaches are a common condition that affects people around the globe.
Looking at data from 357 previous studies that measured the prevalence …
Weight bias, weight stigma, and fat phobia: how to respond
(Monica Lozano/ Verve Times) — Laken Brooks, 27, thinks weight bias might be why no one noticed her depression. At one point in college, the PhD student and freelance health writer couldn’t sleep. She’d forget to eat. Then she dropped nearly 30 pounds in a single semester.
Fast, unexplained weight loss is often a sign of another …
Lifelong excess weight can nearly double risk of womb cancer – study
(Andrew Gregory/ The Guardian) — Lifelong excess weight may almost double a woman’s risk of developing womb cancer, research suggests.
Scientists and doctors have known for some time that being overweight or obese increases the risk of the disease. About one in three cases in the UK (34%) are linked to excess weight.
Now …
Early menopause may raise risk of dementia later in life
(Science Daily) — Compared with women who enter menopause around age 50, women who experience very early menopause (before the age of 40) were found to be 35% more likely to develop some type of dementia later in life, according to a large study of women living in the United Kingdom.
Women who entered menopause before age 45 …
Could microplastics in human blood pose a health risk?
(Katherine Lang/ Medical News Today) — Plastics are everywhere. Although, in theory, much of it can be recycled, a lot of it ends up in landfills, or worse, in watercourses and marine ecosystems.
Many people are too familiar with distressing images of turtles and dolphins trapped in plastic bags or fishing nets. But there …