What If You Didn't Sleep For A Week?
Adults Health
We all know sleep is important, but what if you just.... stopped doing it?
Could You Be Immune To Everything?
Adults Health
Do you remember having a cold in 5th grade? Or the flu a couple years ago? Your immune system does.
Is Binge Watching Bad For You?
Adults Health
Are you watching too many screens?
What Is The Most Dangerous Sport In The World?
Adults Health
With the Olympics wrapping up, we wondered: what is the most dangerous sport?!
Debunking Anti-Vaxxers
Adults Health
Here's what to say to anti-vaxxers!
We Asked Bill Gates: Do You Need To Be Rich To Be Healthy?
Adults Health
This video is in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gates. You can check out the Gates Annual Letter here: http://b-gat.es/2Cfph0j
Why Electroshock Therapy Is Back
Adults Health
Shocking the brain has come and gone as a medical treatment, but it's currently resurging, as it often provides the best form of relief for severe depression and advanced Parkinson's disease.
How did teeth evolve? - Peter S. Ungar
Adults Health
You may take them for granted, but your teeth are a marvel. They break up all your food over the course of your life, while being strong enough to withstand breakage themselves. How do they do it?
The Girl Who's Allergic To Everything | Living Differently
Adults Health
British Championship disability gymnast, Natasha Coates, 22, is allergic to everything. She has won 19 British titles and placed first in the British Disability Championships.
It's not you. Commuting is bad for your health.
Adults Health
My commute is like a second job, and it might be killing me.
How does your immune system work? - Emma Bryce
Adults Health
The immune system is a vast network of cells, tissues, and organs that coordinate your body's defenses against any threats to your health. Without it, you'd be exposed to billions of bacteria, viruses, and toxins that could make something as minor as a paper cut or a seasonal cold fatal. So how does it work? Emma Bryce takes you inside the body to find out.
Should You Let A Dog Lick Your Face?
Adults Health
Canine and human mouths are bacterial ecosystems, but can they harm one another? "Sometimes, the oral contact between dogs and their owners can be more extensive than that between parent and child. Dogs kiss and lick their owners to express amiable emotions. This raises the possibility of transferring bacteria from the oral microbiome of dogs to their human owners."
The Milk-Industrial Complex: Why You Don't Need to Drink Milk
Adults Health
Readers of Aaron's blog know of his beef with the milk industrial complex. Why does milk, of all beverages, get a pass in our efforts to reduce everyone's caloric intake? Why is it encouraged, when all others are shunned? Is it because you need the calcium? Is it because it makes your bones stronger? Watch, and learn why the milk emperor has no clothes.
Where does all the snot come from? - James May's Q&A (Ep 3) - Head Squeeze
Adults Health
James May tells us exactly where that green snot in our nostrils comes from. He also delves into how mucus helps prevent harmful foreign objects from entering our bodies.
Where Do Our Drugs Come From?
Adults Health
The incredible chemical weapon-making abilities of fungi, bacteria, and plants have created a diverse array of compounds that are useful to humans.
What Is It Like To Be Deaf?
Adults Health
Deafness is not a one size fits all, but what are some things Deaf people might experience?
What If You Only Ate Meat?
Adults Health
This would take your high protein, paleo, keto diet to a new level
How Close Are We to Curing HIV/AIDS?
Adults Health
Current drug therapies mean it's possible to live a normal life span with HIV, but that's expensive and not a long term solution. What we really need is an HIV vaccine and a cure. So, how close are we?
How Emotionally Healthy Are You?
Adults Health
"One way to start assessing how badly we have been knocked by our early years - and where we might therefore need to direct most of our repair work and attention - is to identify a range of markers of emotional health and imagine how we fare in relation to them. At least four central ones suggest themselves..."
Why do you need to get a flu shot every year? - Melvin Sanicas
Adults Health
All year long, researchers at hospitals around the world collect samples from flu patients and send them to top virology experts with one goal: to design the vaccine for the next flu season. But why do we need a new one every year? Vaccines for diseases like mumps and polio offer a lifetime of protection with two shots early in life; what's so special about the flu? Melvin Sanicas explains.