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Your metabolic roots

''Nuns and midgets, that’s the ticket,'' American author John Gregory Dunne was advised as a fledgling journalist by his editor at Time magazine. Dunne took his mentor’s advice, and the oddity - in th... more »

Trusting the process

It all began with a fever. So begins The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion’s extraordinary account of the events of 2003 and 2004, and memoir of her marriage to writer John Gregory Dunne. more »

Happy thoughts

Every so often, a person with a terminal illness defies the textbook description of his disease and the gloomy prognoses of the experts, and beats it virtually overnight, without the aid of modern med... more »

Vital bogeymen

The most fearsome bogeyman of our troubled dreams is not a serial murderer or Al Qaeda operative. It is a microbe out of control. Nothing strikes more terror in the heart than the idea of an epidemic.... more »

Vital bogeymen

The most fearsome bogeyman of our troubled dreams is not a serial murderer or Al Qaeda operative. It is a microbe out of control. Nothing strikes more terror in the heart than the idea of an epidemic.... more »

The selling of frankensoy

P.T. Barnum would have been proud. The giant conglomerates that process soy have managed to transform a bit of Frankenstein manufacturing into the very epitome of natural and traditional - and, most r... more »

Finding the cancer soul

What, exactly, causes cancer? What mechanism could it be that enables outlaw cells to shut down our immune systems with the flip of a switch and run riot through the house? more »

Seeing pink flamingos

For a long time, I’ve been trying to figure out how exactly aspirin, a simple pain-reliever and anti-inflammatory, was transformed into a miracle preventative for all cardiac and vascular diseases. more »

Seeing pink flamingos

For a long time, I’ve been trying to figure out how exactly aspirin, a simple pain-reliever and anti-inflammatory, was transformed into a miracle preventative for all cardiac and vascular diseases. more »

Sifting through the ashes

Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, we who have dreaded this moment for two years, who have jumped up and down in protest over the European Food Supplements Directive (FSD), have now been eyew... more »

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