While it’s almost unnoticeable to begin with, nearly every cell, organ and biological process gets a little bit worse every year we’re alive starting from age 30 or so.

As the production of chemicals continues to boom, how exactly are they impacting our health? To answer this question, new tools have been developed to identify and monitor hazardous substances.

It’s long been popular advice for people looking to lose weight to avoid late night snacking. It’s no wonder, with a host of research showing that late night eating is linked to greater body weight and increased risk of obesity.

Brushing your teeth is essential for maintaining optimal oral health, but like most aspects of health, the full story is more complicated.

With more of us living into old age than at any other time, dementia is increasing steadily worldwide, with major individual, family, societal and economic consequences.

One advantage of strength training over cardio is that it doesn’t require the same level of oxygen consumption. This means we’re not forced to breathe increasingly harder and faster when doing it.

Even though sleep may be, as one researcher put it, “the only major behaviour in search of a function”, it clearly does matter for our health and wellbeing.

Gum diseases are among the most common chronic human diseases, affecting between 20 to 50% of people worldwide.

We spend a third of our lives asleep. And a quarter of our time asleep is spent dreaming. So, for the average person alive in 2022, with a life expectancy of around 73, that clocks in at just over six years of dreaming.

The American National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults get seven to nine hours sleep each night. Many people fall short of this.

All of you have the opportunity to be ahead of the curve, not so you may be first, but so that you may help others. Your job is to pay it forward...

The good news is that so-called “weekend warriors” (people who only work out two days a week) can still appreciate the health benefits that come from regular exercise... 

What if much of what causes cancer has already happened in our early years, or worse still, before we were born.

An infectious disease expert argues getting the annual flu shot is important to individual and public health.

We can feel ourselves to the extent that we feel safe. When we feel safe enough, we can open ourselves to connection. Embodiment is the doorway to feeling ourselves. 

As you sit here reading this article, your cells are working away in your body performing all the diverse biochemical reactions necessary to keep you going.

There’s more to virus biology than meets the eye. Take HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. HIV is a retrovirus that does not go directly on a killing spree when it enters a cell.

When the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with them. Turns out, these microbes also evolved along with them.

It is difficult to understand the ease with which we have accepted a major proportion of the Australian population getting infected with COVID in just a matter of months.

In countries such as the UK, US and Canada, ultra-processed foods now account for 50% or more of calories consumed

Mosquitoes need to feed on blood in order to reproduce. But how do they choose whom to feed on? 

“The longest journey a man must take is the eighteen inches from his head to his heart”

Viruses and their hosts across the five most concerning virus families could fuel the next pandemic. We asked leading experts about the diseases they can cause...