What you see in the toilet bowl every day is actually one of the most accessible health indicators your body produces, though it is probably not a topic that comes up in polite conversation. Your urine’s color, clarity, and smell can reveal a surprisingly wide range of things happening inside your body. It takes less … Read more
Your liver is one of the hardest working organs in your entire body. It filters your blood, processes nutrients from everything you eat and drink, produces bile to help digest fats, stores energy, and neutralizes hundreds of toxins and medications that pass through your system every single day. It does all of this silently, without … Read more
Almost everyone has felt that strange pins and needles sensation after sitting in an uncomfortable position for too long. You shift your weight, shake out your arm, and within a minute everything is back to normal. That kind of temporary numbness is not dangerous and most people understand what caused it. But what about numbness … Read more
People only think about their nails when they need to cut them or when one breaks at an inconvenient moment. But your nails are actually one of the easiest ways to see what is going on inside your body. For a long time doctors have used the way nails look as a diagnostic clue and … Read more
You feel fine one minute but then the room starts to spin, your legs feel weak, and you have to hold onto something to stay upright. Dizziness that comes on suddenly is one of the most disorienting things that can happen to the body and it can strike people of all ages without any warning. … Read more
A lot of people call high blood pressure the silent killer and there is a good reason for that. Most people who have it feel perfectly fine. There are no clear signs in the early stages, no pain or dramatic warning sign that makes you stop and think something is wrong. You could have dangerously … Read more
It happens all at once. When you are sitting still, maybe reading or watching something, your heart does something strange. A flutter. A thud. It seemed to trip over itself for a second before going back to normal. It can be scary the first time it happens and even scarier when it keeps happening. Doctors … Read more
Nothing is more annoying than sleeping for a full night and still waking up feeling completely drained. You did everything the right way. You went to bed early and slept all night, but when your alarm goes off, your body feels like it never rested at all. If this happens to you every day, there … Read more
It starts without any notice. A small, involuntary twitch under your eye or along your eyelid that only you can feel but that you experience almost constantly. When your eye twitches it is hard to ignore, but most people do not know what causes it or whether they should be concerned. Myokymia is the medical … Read more
Most people say stress is to blame. Some people say their busy schedule is to blame. Some people tell themselves that they are just getting older. But if you have been feeling bad for weeks or months and cannot figure out why, there is a good chance your body is low on one of the … Read more