A long time ago, on an elite sports team far, far away… I was a fitness freak. Then life (and a stressful job) happened. That’s when I chose to spend my mornings sleeping in instead of weighing in; to spend my weeknights binge-watching TV instead of binge-lifting...
The human body: An inspiring biological work of art? Or a meaty sack of germs and fluids? Either way, there’s still a lot we don’t know about what goes on in there — and scientists are constantly attempting to find out more. Here are the most interesting things we...
Don’t have three hours a day to spend at the gym? Not interested in bulging like a bodybuilder? Unmoved by promises of “fat-blasting, ab-chiseling monster workouts”? This is the column for you, fellow regular human with very little free time. … The Man Elion, Marina Del Rey,...
The human body: An inspiring biological work of art? Or a meaty sack of germs and fluids? Either way, there’s still a lot we don’t know about what goes on in there — and scientists are constantly attempting to find out more. Here are the most interesting things published...
If you’re in a relationship with a person who has a menstrual cycle, the odds are pretty good that you’ve been asked to go on a tampon run. And if it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will. Mastering the mysteries of the overwhelmingly pastel-floral feminine hygiene...
Prepare to have your world turned upside down: For the longest time, scientists believed our appendages wrinkled underwater because of osmosis, but this may not be the case after all. The old theory was that water washed away the layer of sebum that coats the skin, before...
Ah yes, the male morning conundrum: You desperately need to pee, but your morning wood makes it impossible. There’s legitimate science as to why. “It’s difficult to urinate with an erection because the chambers within the penis that engorge with blood during an erection — the corpora cavernosa and...
If there’s one thing I hate in life — and there is not; I hate many things with equal vigor — it’s being too hot. In bed, my wife sleeps under two sets of covers, wearing pajamas, still shivering, while I lie naked, the covers thrown off, two limbs ideally hanging...
Remember the good old days — aka, your teens — when you could go to bed at midnight and sleep until three in the afternoon? Now, remember the last time you went to sleep at 4 a.m. and still woke up three frickin’ hours later? Needless to say, sleep in adulthood blows....
The human body: An inspiring biological work of art? Or a meaty sack of germs and fluids? Either way, there’s still a lot we don’t know about what goes on in there — and scientists are constantly attempting to find out more. Here are the most interesting things we...
Grab a box of tissues: Researchers may have cracked the code behind why men must take to bed as if hit by the Ebola virus when they only have a minor case of the sniffles: Their immune cells are weaker, Time reports. The study, published in Brain,...
The urban legend goes like this: Stand too close to a microwave, and your body could be bombarded with secondhand radiation that gives you cancer. The FDA, however, claims that microwaves are perfectly safe. So who’s telling the truth? Surprise! It’s the FDA, since there’s currently no...
