Evolving Health

The first living wall as it's constructed in South Africa. My friend Warren Te Brugge has taken on a project that deserves the atten...

Dr. Lindeberg weighing a Kitavan man.  While training in family medicine, Staffan Lindeberg , M.D., Ph.D., read a paper (published in 1...

At a time when our ancestors existed as hunter-gatherers in the Paleolithic, it's clear that food was not always available and that the ...

James Elser, Ph.D. What can we do about phosphorus and food's future? The 15th element in the periodic table is not something that ...

A PET image showing energy consumption in the hungry brain. Credit:   Wiki "Can we get any smarter?" That is the question that...

Telomere length has a proportional and linear relationship to omega-3 fatty acids. With all the attention surrounding telomere length as ...

Michael Holick, MD, Ph.D., told me in a phone interview nearly a year ago that vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency was "one of the ...

Reference: Wolkowitz et al. 2011 March. People who suffer from major depression have a higher risk of age-related illness and earlier mor...

Aché man hunting. Credit: Wiki “So the bottom line is that foragers are often in good shape and they look it. They sprint, jog, climb, ca...

This Discovery Channel series "Neanderthal" presents a wonderful re-enactment of how Neandertals lived in small groups, how they...

An extra shot of espresso can surely help wake you up in the morning, but what does it mean for your blood pressure? It is well known that...

Charles Darwin (Credit: Wikimedia) Throughout most of Charles Darwin's adult life, the famed author of On the   Origin of Species st...

My stand-up desk As bipedal apes, our bodies are meant for walking and running, which may have even been a catalyst for eventually bringi...

In the United States, the number of obese older adults has reached disturbing heights—now affecting approximately 20 percent of those ages 6...

Advances in medicine are allowing us to live longer than ever, but with our older age comes a greater risk that our organs will fail us. I...

Photosimulation montages of "Nutcracker Man's" dental microwear. Reference: Ungar et al. PLoS One  2008.  Because of a huge...

Michael Ruse Why were the great Greek philosophers (including Plato and Aristotle) firmly set against the idea of natural origins? Why ...

Low-dose supplementation of resveratrol daily may reduce oxidative stress and improve the body's sensitivity to insulin, a study from Un...

A new study suggests most U.S. adults continue to fail to get enough of the mineral through diet and supplementation to meet recommended lev...

What would you change about your own naturally evolved, naturally flawed body? Would you choose genetics to avoid diseases like Alzheimer...