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Within just a few months of playing consistently, she began to notice a difference. "I remember when I started playing ping pong," she told Business Insider's Sarah Andersen in April, "I noticed that my reflexes were faster than they had been." Now, after more than a decade of playing and competing at the national level and earning more than 50 medals, she attributes the sport to keeping her mind sharp and engaged as she enters her 80s.

I was settling into one of those airport activity tables with high stools and electric outlets at my flight's gate, waiting for the agent to announce boarding, when I felt a gathering storm at the apex of my butt cheeks. This was my last flight after being away from home on a book tour in May. For the past two weeks, I hadn't left my chair much, due to all the posting, podcasting, writing, and tense, nervous scrolling that releasing a book involves.

I'm extremely grateful to the team at George's without them, I would have no voice and would have to give up the job I've loved for almost 50 years. They have been amazing, and all the care I've had every step of the way has been second to none. I can't stop singing their praises.

Soon I was obsessing over my sleep and activity scores. The reports were generally positive except for one: heart rate variability, or HRV. That's a measure of how much the time between heartbeats changes. Every morning, in bright red, my ring's app singled out HRV and told me: Pay attention. That didn't sound good, although I had no idea why. Before wearable fitness watches, rings and bracelets became so common and started including HRV as a data point, I had never heard of it.

A survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) of more than 20,000 nursing staff found that 66% had worked when they should have been on sick leave, up from 49% in 2017. Just under two-thirds (65%) of respondents cited stress to be the biggest cause of illness, up from 50% in 2017. Seven out of 10 said they had worked in excess of their contracted hours at least once a week, with about half (52%) doing so unpaid.

I have a retirement lump sum, some of which I will spend and some of which I will invest or save.

Karen and her business partner, Dave Bilinski, were watching from the outdoor pens of their farm in the mountains of Canada's West Kootenay. The fate of their flock had been taken up by right-wing media, and had become another front in a spiritual war. An angry group of their supporters, with signs and walkie-talkies, gathered on the property. They'd set up a barricade to slow the cops' advance:

Sweating, he says, is part of the thermoregulation process. When your body temperature rises, it signals to your brain to sweat in order to cool you down. As the sweat evaporates, it helps regulate your core temperature. One reason temperature rises is exercise. When we exercise, the energy we produce to fuel that activity creates heat as a byproduct, says Collins. The more intense the workout, the more heat is generated and usually, the more you sweat.

First, keep it clean. Use soapy water and a cloth to wipe down the frame, especially around the joints and where the hands grip the metal. Make sure to dry thoroughly to prevent rust. Check the wheels to see if dirt or other debris has accumulated and remove any with a small brush. Test the wheels by spinning them; they should roll smoothly. If they don't, use a lubricant or silicone-based spray to get them whirling again.

A single infusion of an experimental gene-editing drug appears safe and effective for cutting cholesterol, possibly for life, according to a small early study released Saturday. The study, which involved 15 volunteers, found one infusion of a drug that uses the CRISPR gene-editing technique could safely reduce cholesterol, as well as levels of harmful triglycerides, by about half.

I have had breast cancer. I found a lump a few weeks ago. It came and went but then I was working on The Masked Singer and Lorraine, the TV show, and Lorraine Kelly had put signs on the backs of all the doors saying check your breasts' and every time I went for a wee I did that. It was still there, and then one morning I saw myself in the mirror and thought I'm going to get that looked at'.

On a sunny fall morning, children wearing helmets and backpacks gathered with their parents in Montclair, New Jersey, for a group bicycle ride to two local elementary schools. Volunteers in orange safety vests made sure everyone assembled in a neighborhood shopping area was ready before the riders set off on their 5-mile "bike bus" route. Every few blocks, more adults and kids on bikes joined in. Eventually, the group grew to over 350 people.

Dear No Longer in Love With My Pillow, It is highly unlikely that your masturbation style caused nerve damage, according to my go-to urology source, Dr. Charles Welliver, director of men's health in the department of urology at Albany Medical College. "Penile sensation does decrease with age, so might be some age-related changes," he added in an email regarding your question. This just may be where you are.

"My family's been riding together every night before our kids go to bed, and it's reliably the best time of the day," said Jim Huth, Prevelo's Director of Operations. "Our family rides get everyone focused on a shared activity, get us all outside, and help me and my wife get away from the distractions of daily life. I hope having our bikes available through TrueMed makes it easier for more families to enjoy rides together."

Don't worry, you can continue to ask ChatGPT all your burning health questions. A series of news articles and X posts on Monday morning, including one post by the prediction market Kalshi, suggested that OpenAI's ChatGPT would no longer offer health advice. That's not entirely accurate. OpenAI can still give you medical information - it just can't pretend to be your doctor.

I've always been what you'd call a "bad sleeper." At night, my brain loves to replay the next day's to-do list over and over, and when I'm starting to doze off, a car door will slam down the street or my neighbor's dog will bark, and I'm suddenly wide awake. Even the faintest sliver of streetlight sneaking through the curtains can keep me up.

It started with a donut. One morning in her 20s, Jessie Inchauspé says, she grabbed her usual sugary breakfast on her way to work in Silicon Valley - and noticed something strange. Her new fitness tracker showed her blood sugar spiking, then crashing. The pattern mirrored her bouts of brain fog, anxiety, and exhaustion, she said. "It might seem obvious today that what we eat impacts our mental health, but back then, for me, I hadn't connected the dots," Inchauspé told Business Insider.

For people living with diabetes, caring for their gums can be just as important as managing blood sugar. Research has shown that there is a two-way relationship between periodontal disease - more commonly known as gum disease - and diabetes. People with periodontitis have a higher risk of diabetes, and patients with diabetes are three times more likely to develop periodontal disease.

Admittedly, it was my fault, and was the result of an experiment: What would happen if I only wore one knee-high compression sock on the 15-hour flight from Newark to Cape Town? On my other foot, I wore a regular ankle sock to see just how effective compression socks can be for circulation while in the air. Surely, after 10 years of flying across the Atlantic monthly for my career, my body has acclimated to spending hours at high altitudes-right?

Contraception may be the main reason most women start hormonal birth control, but it does a lot more than just prevent pregnancy. In addition to impacting skin and menstrual cycles, ongoing research suggests that the synthetic hormones in birth control can also influence brain development, mood regulation, and overall mental well-being - which may help explain why people's experiences with side-effects vary so widely.

We all know that the modern American food system relies heavily on ultra-processed ingredients. But if you aren't careful, these processed foods can end up being a pretty significant part of your diet. And while thinking of ultra-processed foods probably has you envisioning items like big bags of Doritos chips and sleeves of Oreo cookies, new research has shown a surprising top source for ultra-processed calories in Americans' diets: sandwiches.

You wear a weighted vest (also called a weight vest) over your shoulders, usually during a workout like walking, running, or strength training. It may be weighted straps that clip together like those of a backpack, or a full vest that also wraps around your chest. They often have pockets where you add or remove small weights. The extra weight helps your body work harder and increases your energy output.

CVS Health reported third-quarter results this morning that beat adjusted earnings expectations but delivered a mixed message on operations and cash flow. Adjusted EPS came in at $1.60, well above the $1.37 consensus estimate. Revenue reached $102.87 billion, topping the $98.85 billion expectation and books sales grew 7.8% year over year as all three of its business segments grew. Yet the stock barely moved in after-hours trading, settling near $82.40.

The school day is just getting started, and 4-year-old Vasiliki Vourgou, a little girl with dark eyes and hair pulled back in a shiny ponytail with a hot pink scrunchie, is alone. Most days, there are two pupils in this small classroom on the Greek island of Lemnos, with big windows and a view of the school's front courtyard. But one student is sick, so today it's just Vasiliki, going through the morning routine with her teacher.