The students in Bostian Elementary School science teacher Brandy Hunt’s class got a hands-on lesson about what happens after ...

How stress affects the body will differ from person to person. Some people may experience only psychological effects from feeling stressed, while others may also experience physical symptoms, such as ...

When a person is at rest, meditating or reading a book, the parasympathetic nervous system is at work. Also known as the "rest and digest" system, the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for ...

Your circadian rhythm helps regulate your natural sleep-wake cycle. Here's how to reset it to improve your sleep, according to an expert. Mercey Livingston CNET Contributor Mercey Livingston is a ...

Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure and fear. It is late at ...

Sleep is important for plenty of reasons. What you might not have known is that sleep impacts your hormones, and hormone levels impact your sleep. Sleep affects many hormones in the body, including ...

When I (Dacher Keltner) was 18, I wandered into a yoga class in my first year of college, hosted on a basketball court in the school’s gym. At the time, some 40 years ago, yoga had mystical, somewhat ...

The term micronutrients refers to vitamins and minerals, which can be divided into macrominerals, trace minerals and water- and fat-soluble vitamins. An adequate amount of micronutrients often means ...

A low body temperature can occur when you're sick or due to environmental conditions. Here's what you need to know about low ...

Evidence is mounting that our body fat supports everything from our bone health to our mood, and now, research suggests it ...