health

Infrared workouts may suit people who enjoy exercising in warmth. Heat can temporarily increase skin blood flow, reduce feelings of soreness and make movement feel more comfortable.

Having an older brain age in relation to chronological age signals a departure from healthy ageing. Over time, this can raise the risk of cognitive decline and dementia.

Children born to mothers with untreated depression and anxiety have a higher risk of falling behind on early developmental milestones.

For most healthy people, toxo remains a silent passenger for life, causing no illness at all. But understanding how this remarkably successful parasite hides from our immune system could lead to something we’ve never had before: treatments that completely clear dormant infection.

Heat can quietly damage medicines, making them less effective or even unsafe.

Technology can recognise patterns. People provide empathy, trust and clinical judgement. The future of mental health care may likely depend on combining the strengths of both.

Feeling “wired but tired” is not evidence that your body has failed to rest properly. Often it is evidence that the brain has become too good at staying alert in a digital world that never really stops.

There is a widespread belief that if an excess of sugar is toxic, absolute zero must be perfect. But trying to “clean” your body by eliminating an entire nutrient class might end up starving the very system you want to heal.

A study found that medical professionals changed their practice in response to fear of litigation, inquiries, complaints or professional regulation. Researchers call this “defensive practice".

Secondary injuries happen for a simple reason. After an injury, the body often changes the way it moves. This is a normal protective response. If one area hurts, feels weak or isn’t working properly, the body shifts the workload elsewhere.

During pregnancy, the placenta is treated as vital. It is monitored because it helps sustain the baby. But after birth, it can quickly be treated as a disposal issue rather than something a woman may have feelings, beliefs or plans about.

When you run outside, you push into the ground to propel yourself forward. But when you are running on a treadmill, the belt moves under your feet, helping with this propulsion. Basically, the machine does a small amount of the work for you.