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Lissa Rankin, MD is an OB/GYN physician, author, keynote speaker, consultant to health care visionaries, professional artist, and founder of the women's health and wellness community OwningPink.com. Discouraged by the broken, patriarchal health care system, she left her medical practice in 2007 only to realize that you can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling. This epiphany launched her on a journey of discovery that led her to become a leader in the field of mind/body medicine, which she blogs about at OwningPink.com and is writing about in her third book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013).

Pain helps us survive, and yet some people are born without the ability to feel pain, how?

Some animals produce venom that is lethal to both their prey and to humans, but scientists are finding ways to use these compounds as medicine.

Scientists are taking cancer patients' immune cells and engineering them to fight cancer. How does it work?

Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded?

Most people think the Mediterranean diet is just about restricting what you eat, but they're getting it all wrong.

One man cracked his knuckles in one hand for 60 years and not the other. Watch the video to see what he found out.

Have you ever wondered what a fly is doing when it lands on your food? Laci did some research to figure out just what happens.

There have been plenty of scandals and questionable practices in the house that Big Mac built, we're gonna keep things simple, by focusing on the food, the marketing behind it, and its impact on the way we eat.

Every second of your life you are under attack. Bacteria, viruses, spores and more living stuff wants to enter your body and use its resources for itself. The immune system is a powerful army of cells that fights like a T-Rex on speed and sacrifices itself for your survival.

Should you stop using hand sanitizer?

This artificial leaf creates medicines using sunlight.

Nostalgia was once considered an illness confined to specific groups of people. Today, people all over the world report experiencing and enjoying nostalgia. But how does nostalgia work? And is it healthy? Clay Routledge details the way our understanding of nostalgia has changed since the term was first coined in the late 17th century.

Debunking some common diets, and seeing which work!

Food doesn't last. In days, sometimes hours, bread goes moldy, apple slices turn brown, and bacteria multiply in mayonnaise. But you can find all of these foods out on the shelf at the grocery store, hopefully unspoiled, thanks to preservatives.

They are flexible and reconfigurable, and behave like actual human muscles.

Should you be eating organic food?

Water can be cool, but Benedict Cumberbatch makes it cooler.

Prolonged space travel plays a severe toll on the human body: microgravity impairs muscle and bone growth, and high doses of radiation cause irreversible mutations.

We have the choice to attack one of our oldest enemies with genetic engineering. But should we do it?

Can we all agree that the left lane is for passing, please?