As we age, it’s almost expected that we will experience greater levels of physical fatigue, mental fatigue, muscular wasting, and even cognitive impairment. So what can be done? No doubt there is clear merit...

When I was in my early 20s I was stricken with an extremely severe neurological disorder that destroyed my career as a cosmologist (a professional astronomer who studies the general nature and origin of the ...

Reading Grain Brain changed my life forever. For the past five years, every three months, I have received botox or myoblock injections to treat my cervical dystonia. Though I received the injections, my hea...

These days most everyone is fixated on weight loss, and rightfully so. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association more than one third of Americans (34.9%) are obese and this is far more tha...

By: Austin Perlmutter, MD, Medical Student, Miller School of Medicine Since childhood we’ve been told to eat our broccoli, a request usually based on the claim that “it’s good for you.” Though we now have su...

Exciting research from the University of Texas Health Science Center has identified what has now been termed the “master regulator of the aging process.” The process of aging seems to be quite directly corre...