Moment 187: The Pregnancy Doctor REVEALS 3 Ways To INCREASE Your Chances Of Pregnancy NATURALLY

Advice on pregnancy is often passed down as conventional wisdom without clear evidence. When the Harvard-trained economist Emily Oster got pregnant, she got tired of the low rigor surrounding most pregnancy advice. She dove into the medical literature and separated common wisdom from real data.

In Expecting Better, learn what research data really says about the best time during the ovulation cycle to get pregnant, why you can have a drink of alcohol and not harm your fetus, why it’s much better to gain more weight than less when pregnant, and many more useful tips.

Fasting has gained popularity for offering a myriad of health benefits: It can improve your immune system, help you lose or maintain a healthy weight, and enhance your mental clarity.

In Fast Like a Girl, best-selling author, YouTuber, and holistic health expert Mindy Pelz suggests that many women fail to benefit from fasting because they don't understand how hormonal cycles impact their bodies. This lack of understanding often leads them to mistime fasts, resulting in hormonal imbalances and uncomfortable symptoms. Pelz argues that aligning fasting schedules with hormonal cycles can help women overcome these challenges and maximize the benefits of fasting.

In this guide, we’ll explore Pelz's ideas about fasting, covering the mental and physical health benefits of fasting, tips for prolonging and enhancing these benefits, and advice on how women can tailor their fasting schedules and eating habits to promote hormonal balance. Additionally, we'll supplement her ideas with research, advice, and practical tips from other health and nutrition experts.

Advice on pregnancy is often passed down as conventional wisdom without clear evidence. When the Harvard-trained economist Emily Oster got pregnant, she got tired of the low rigor surrounding most pregnancy advice. She dove into the medical literature and separated common wisdom from real data.

In Expecting Better, learn what research data really says about the best time during the ovulation cycle to get pregnant, why you can have a drink of alcohol and not harm your fetus, why it’s much better to gain more weight than less when pregnant, and many more useful tips.

Why do we get sick? Why hasn’t natural selection, over millions of years, prevented us from getting cancer, heart disease, and depression?

The science of evolutionary medicine says that our bodies have evolved over millions of years as a set of compromises, largely in pursuit of reproductive fitness. Put concisely, whatever gets you to survive and have kids is going to persist in the gene pool, even if it causes you lots of disease and pain in adult life. Learn more about the evolutionary roots of obesity, infectious disease, aging, and depression.

Author Tim Ferriss has spent years studying how to improve the human body—he interviewed and trained with experts, studied scientific literature, and tried out what he learned on himself. In The 4-Hour Body, he distills the most effective 2.5% of what he discovered into programs you can use to improve six aspects of your body: losing fat and gaining muscle, enhancing sex, improving sleep, managing injuries, improving sports performance, and living longer.

Advice on pregnancy is often passed down as conventional wisdom without clear evidence. When the Harvard-trained economist Emily Oster got pregnant, she got tired of the low rigor surrounding most pregnancy advice. She dove into the medical literature and separated common wisdom from real data.

In Expecting Better, learn what research data really says about the best time during the ovulation cycle to get pregnant, why you can have a drink of alcohol and not harm your fetus, why it’s much better to gain more weight than less when pregnant, and many more useful tips.

The US fertility rate reached a record low in 2023, with economic pressures, delayed adulthood, and the Covid-19 pandemic contributing to the decline. Falling fertility rates could have significant consequences: shrinking the American workforce, increasing pressure on the social security system, and forcing states to cut services or raise taxes.

Too many young adults have been convinced that their twenties are a “free period” of life, during which none of their choices matter and there are no consequences. The truth is, though, that your twenties are a crucial time in establishing a fulfilling adult life down the road, and throwing them away because of a cultural myth of extended childhood only makes it harder for you to find eventual happiness. Psychologist Meg Jay discusses the ways in which today’s youth have been misled into wasting these important years, and explores how we can make the best of this decade to find success in both work and love.

Advice on pregnancy is often passed down as conventional wisdom without clear evidence. When the Harvard-trained economist Emily Oster got pregnant, she got tired of the low rigor surrounding most pregnancy advice. She dove into the medical literature and separated common wisdom from real data.

In Expecting Better, learn what research data really says about the best time during the ovulation cycle to get pregnant, why you can have a drink of alcohol and not harm your fetus, why it’s much better to gain more weight than less when pregnant, and many more useful tips.