Maybe your dish doesn’t need more salt. A study published this month in the journal JAMA found that removing a teaspoon of salt from the diet a day can lower blood pressure as much as most high blood pressure medications. A low-sodium diet lowered systolic blood pressure in nearly 75 percent of 213 people who …
Students, rejoice, your sleepless nights may have more benefits than earning you an A. That all-too-familiar feeling of “tension but fatigue” from not getting enough sleep for just one night may actually have antidepressant effects, according to a study led by a team at Northwestern University. Although chronic sleep deprivation has been studied extensively, scientists …
The weight loss drug revolution appears to have truly arrived. For decades, there have been compounds available that reduce weight or strengthen muscles, but they always have dangerous side effects and worsen long-term health. The compensation simply wasn’t worth it. A weight loss pill still seemed far away. Now, drugs like Ozempic (semaglutide) and Mounjaro …