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How to Quit Smoking

A realistic, evidence-based plan for getting cigarettes out of your day—and keeping them out.

By Jackie Kolgraf

Edited and approved by Stephen C. Rose, Ph.D.

Seldom is a cigarette just a cigarette. More often, it's an event in tandem with coffee, beer, sex, or other various and...

By Donna Wright

Edited and approved by Stephen C. Rose, Ph.D,

Most people think of heat therapy as something simple and familiar: a sauna after the gym, a hot bath at the end of the day, a heating pad on a stiff back, a steam room that feels good when the weather turns cold. And honestly, that is...

by: Donna Wright

Edited and approved by Stephen C. Rose, Ph.D.

At a reunion, the small talk starts before anyone says a word. Some people look like they have been calmly moisturized by the universe. Others look like they have spent the last decade arguing with the sun, stress, and possibly a leaf...

By Donna Wright

Edited and approved by Stephen C. Rose, Ph.D.

September 11, 2025

Water, the eternally underrated universal solvent doensn’t get a fraction of the attention it deserves- yet it was the oceans of water that gave birth to life itself, and even in the driest of deserts, if there is life...

By Noah Grossman

Edited and approved by Stephen C. Rose, Ph.D.

Human life expectancy rose dramatically over the last century, first through sanitation, nutrition, antibiotics, and safer childbirth, and now through a more ambitious idea: treating the biology of aging itself as a medical target...

By David Haines, Ph.D.

Edited and approved by Stephen C. Rose, Ph.D.

The journey to a longer life and a longer healthspan does not begin with supplement stacks, hacks, or optimization theater. It points toward avoiding a familiar set of high-impact risks. Across cohort studies, combinations of...