Author: healthtost
Sharing my latest Japan posts! We had the most magical time in Kyoto and I’m excited to share the details with you if you’re considering adding it to your travel bucket list! More posts from our incredible time in Seoul and Tokyo: Seoul recap Korean head spa experience Recap of Tokyo and why I love Japan and Tokyo eats + gf picks Kyoto recap, bamboo forest and monkey park Many of our friends had told us to take a train to explore the nearby areas while in Tokyo. Okinawa, Nara, Kyoto and Osaka are highly recommended. I think I mentioned…
Bakuchiol is a natural retinol alternative. Its effects on the skin are similar to retinol, minus the negative skin reactions that retinol often causes. Bakuchiol can be used reduces sun spots, increases collagen production and protects against collagen breakdown. It can also improve fine lines and wrinkles and has even been shown to be helpful in improving acne-prone skin. It speeds up cell turnover which is vital as this process slows down as we age leaving dull, wrinkled dry skin that should have been removed. What’s really cool about Bakuchiol is that strengthens the natural structure of your skin from…
When we think of someone getting tested for chlamydia, we probably don’t picture a 60-year-old woman or an 80-year-old man. Our society tends to think of sex as something young people do. But Americans are living longer, staying healthier and having sex into their 60s, 70s and beyond.On the one hand, this is great news—we should all be able to enjoy sex as much as we want. At the same time, sexually transmitted infections (STDs) among the elderly have increased dramatically in recent decades, and we’re still not talking about it.Older adults still have sexA National survey 2022 from the…
Hayley had always dreamed of becoming a mother and couldn’t wait to experience the pregnancy and birth. After planning a birth center birth with her first baby, everything changed when she learned her baby was a breech, resulting in a C-section after she couldn’t find a provider who offered a vaginal birth when she needed it.Before becoming pregnant again, Hayley immersed herself in learning about VBAC and evidence-based birth. She shares how she carefully chose a VBAC-friendly provider, hospital, and doula, only to find out at 33 weeks that her second baby was also a breech.This conversation explores the importance…
In most modern cells, DNA stores the genetic blueprint and relies on proteins to reproduce, repair, and build from those blueprints. At the same time, proteins require instructions from DNA in the first place. So which came first? Neither, suggest researchers like Saurja DasGupta, a biochemist at the University of Notre Dame. DasGupta seeks to better understand the chemical origins of life by studying the structure, function and evolution of RNA, an intermediate molecule that can store genetic information and catalyze biochemical reactions. In a study done today in Nature Communications, DasGupta and colleagues present a key mechanism for sustaining…
Baby showers are like a modern American invention: pastel balloons, diaper cakes, a mom-to-be in a decorated chair, maybe an aunt who had too many mimosas, but the impulse behind them is thousands of years old. What we think of as “the baby shower” really took shape after World War II, and before that, cultures from ancient Egypt to India had their own very different ways to mark pregnancy.I’ve been covering pregnancy and new parenthood for more than 15 years, and I’ve watched baby showers change even in this relatively short window — fewer diaper cakes, more sips and stares,…
In drug discovery, rapidly building complex molecules is the name of the game. Chemists want molecules with increasingly three-dimensional atomic structures because they can be more potent and selective inside the body, but the additional chemical steps required to build this complexity cost time and money. As it turns out, molecular complexity can be built in fewer steps using some surprisingly simple tools: blue LED lights and a commercially available chemical building block familiar to second-year organic chemistry students. That’s according to a new University at Buffalo study published Thursday (July 9) at Science. The researchers mixed the known chemical…
The clock reads 2:13 am. You are exhausted. Your eyes hurt, your body feels heavy, and the alarm has already started going off during the night, yet your brain refuses to let go. Instead, thoughts arrive in waves. Did you send this email? What if you forgot something important? Maybe now is also the perfect time for your brain to replay a conversation from 2017 with forensic precision. Many people recognize this frustrating state of being “wired but tired” – the paradoxical feeling of being physically exhausted but mentally unable to switch off. Certainly fatigue should automatically induce sleep, but…
Too hot to cook? These 15 no-cook dinners for kids are healthy, kid-approved, and created by nutritionists—no oven, no stove, no sweat. Dinner is over!It’s the kind of week where the weather app just says, “feels like the surface of the sun,” the kids are cranky, and the last thing anyone wants is a hot kitchen at 5:30 p.m.Here’s your permission slip, from one mom to another (who also happens to be a registered dietitian): Dinner doesn’t have to be hot to be considered dinner.A cold dinner made from things you assemble instead of cooking can be perfectly balanced, filling,…
The 13thu The Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD), the world’s largest conference dedicated to longevity biotechnology, will be held October 1-3, 2026, at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University. Marking the high-profile kickoff to Boston Longevity Week, this landmark event is officially hosted by Insilico Medicine, which also anchors the conference as a Tier 1 sponsor along with Eli Lilly. As the science of longevity moves rapidly from theoretical concepts to multibillion-dollar therapeutic pipelines, ARDD 2026 is the premier global nexus connecting basic science, clinical research, big pharma and institutional investors. Moving the conference to Boston—the global…