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There are a few tried-and-true habits that are crucial for sleeping well. Things like reducing screen time before bed, keeping your bedroom dark and quiet, and setting a consistent sleep and wake schedule are all key factors of improving the quality of your sleep. Another (underrated) factor is diet. 

There are concerned, overprotective parents, and then there are cichlid fish. After a male cichlid fertilizes the female’s eggs, she holds her entire brood of embryos inside her mouth for two weeks until they are ready to hatch. Sometimes even after they hatch, she will protect the little hatchlings inside her mouth for a bit longer, until they are ready to make their own way. Giving new meaning to sacrificial parenting, the whole time, her mouth filled to the brim with baby fish, the mother fish will starve—foregoing food for the sake of her future progeny. And yet, there’s another…

AbstractObjective To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of the YCMAP intervention (Youth Culturally Adapted Manual Assisted Problem Solving) for adolescents after self-harm in Pakistan.Design Multicentre, randomised controlled trial that compared YCMAP with enhanced treatment as usual.Settings General practices, emergency departments, medical wards of participating hospitals, and community centres across Karachi, Hyderabad, Lahore, Multan, and Rawalpindi.Participants Adolescents with a recent history of self-harm identified at participating health centres by treating physicians between 5 November 2019 and 31 August 2021.Intervention The YCMAP group received up to 10 treatment sessions over three months; the intervention was based on the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy.Main…

SGS Nutrasource has awarded Lonza Capsules & Health Ingredients (CHI) with NutraStrong Collagen Verified certification for its UC-II undenatured type II collagen, used in joint health supplements. This collagen verification program is the first independent certification system that evaluates and verifies the identity, source, safety, and quality of collagen ingredients and products. The certification aims to ensure consumers receive what is claimed on the label.“This coveted certification verifies that UC-II collagen meets the highest standards of purity, source integrity, manufacturing excellence, and claim substantiation and will help this breakthrough product stand out in an increasingly saturated market,” says Kevin Yan,…

Ginger is our expert-recommended spice for helping you reduce symptoms of bloating. It has anti-inflammatory nutrients that may help increase gastric motility and relieve nausea. Add ginger to your meals by blending fresh ginger to smoothies or using dried ginger in recipes. We’ve all been there—feeling like a balloon that’s been inflated a bit too much. Bloating can sneak up on you, transforming a comfortable outfit into a tight squeeze. On those days, you just want relief. Bloating is common. It is characterized by an uncomfortable feeling of fullness or swelling (distension) in the abdomen. It often occurs after eating…

When it comes to longevity-supporting foods, herbal tea certainly ranks high on the list. Deanna Minich, Ph.D., IFMCP, a functional nutritionist who studies plant-based pigments, would agree: “Look at all the cultures that live the longest. They’re drinking a variety of tea throughout the day,” she says on the mindbodygreen podcast. Green tea receives much of the love—it’s well deserved, of course, as green tea contains the powerful catechin EGCG1, which has more than a few anti-inflammatory benefits.

Fall is a season for carefree living, and the last thing you should have to worry about when whipping up a fresh salad or turning on the grill is how safe your kitchen gadgets are. There’s no room for scary microplastics or potentially toxic black plastic utensils when the likes of bamboo cutting boards and stainless steel skillets are available on Amazon. Keep reading to shop eight of our favorite non-toxic cooking tools for easy, quick and carefree fall dinners, starting at $10.           Best Non-Toxic Cooking Tools at Amazon  Allsum Bamboo Cutting Board, $20 (was $26)  Calphalon Stainless Steel Cookware,…

This postdoc explores how protein interactions govern bacterial membranes, with potential pathways toward new antimicrobial therapies.Image credit:Thiago Pasin, ©iStock, anusorn nakdeeQ | Write a brief introduction to yourself including the lab you work in and your research background. I am Thiago Pasin, a postdoctoral associate in Jeannine Brady’s Lab at the University of Florida (UF) College of Dentistry. I earned my master’s and PhD in Brazil studying fungal enzymes, followed by postdoctoral research in enzyme kinetics and structural biology at the University of Texas (UT) San Antonio. At UF, I study how nucleic acid-binding proteins and membrane proteins interact to…

Over half of women giving birth in England, Scotland, and Wales did so by induction or caesarean section, a large scale audit has found.The latest National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) of 592 594 births in 2023 shows that 50.6% involved a caesarean section or the use of instruments, compared with 40% in the previous report in 2018-19. In 2023, 49.4% of births were vaginal compared with 60% in 2018-19.The trend was driven by a rise in unplanned caesarean sections, which made up nearly a quarter (23.1%) of births in England, Scotland, and Wales in 2023 compared with 15% in 2018-19.Planned…

The goal of the day before a colonoscopy is to clear everything out of your colon, the better for your doctor to be able to peer inside for abnormalities. That means not only drinking a prep to clean out the colon, not ingesting anything extra that needs to be cleared out, and not eating things with colored dyes (red, purple, or blue) that might stain the colon and cause concern if spotted during the screening.[5] A simple trip the grocery store with a colonoscopy-friendly shopping list could make the difference between misery and tolerableness the day before.Here are some items to…