Inflammation has a bad rap, both as an agent of pain and a risk factor for chronic illnesses like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. Even the word itself sounds like something is going up in flames—and that’s pretty accurate: Inflammation is your body’s response to injury or infection, and triggers redness, swelling, heat, and loss

“Being frail” may not sound like that big of a deal—maybe you even assume it’s kind of inevitable as you get older. But frailty is actually a legitimate medical condition that can make it harder for you to bounce back from health-related setbacks as well as heighten your chances of earlier mortality, Linda P. Fried, MD, a

Ever since the first FitBit was released back in 2009, activity trackers have steadily been making their way into the mainstream—today, brands like Whoop, Garmin, and Apple are competing for real estate on our extremities in an industry worth over $13 billion. As these devices have evolved to serve up increasingly diverse data about our

Have you ever felt out of breath after climbing just a few flights of stairs? Even though you workout and feel fit? A lot of people feel winded after taking what should be the easy route—up a few flights of stairs. But why, oh why, do some of us huff and puff after a staircase