Do you remember Dr. Lewis Thomas, the renowned physician-writer? Back in the 1970s, Dr. Thomas wrote an elegant book of essays, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, in which he poetically ...

The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a ...

Cognitive decline is not your destiny. You can improve your brain function through small steps taken every day. Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain by gastroenterologist and health advocate Dr. Partha ...

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation — two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. When the injury is to the brain, the balance is that ...

(WXYZ) — Dr. Partha Nandi is a board-certified gastroenterologist and WXYZ-TV's chief health editor. He's out with a new book titled: Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain ...

When I was 16, my grandmother’s physique puzzled me. Her shape suggested obesity, but her limbs and face contradicted my observation. I asked my father, a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine ...

Sometimes, life throws curveballs that leave you scratching your head. These moments can feel like you're trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces. But those are the same times that teach you ...

While we often obsess over heart health, we frequently neglect the organ that consumes 20% of our daily energy. Top ...

“Go outside” or “touch grass” are common rejoinders deployed in online arguments these days. And, at least for those of us whose brains have probably melted from spending too much time on an app where ...

Living with chronic illness is more than just putting up with symptoms—it’s how your life reshapes itself around those symptoms. Eventually, your brain starts adapting to the patterns of pain, fatigue ...

Studies preaching about the negative effects TV had on kids’ brains were the bane of most of our childhoods. That’s not to say there wasn’t solid evidence to suggest TV harmed children, especially for ...

Have you ever been having just one of those days, you’re in a bad mood, you’re feeling anxious or irritable, then you get in the car and a song comes on and the sound of the music just…touches ...