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Brain Power will explain the science behind what really affects our brains, as well as providing practical tips and exercises to improve and maintain brain function into old age. An essential guide for living better for longer. Packed full of exercises and practical tips to keep our most vital organ in shape, and breaking down the science between brain function and how sleep, exercise, diet and even socializing are imperative for maintaining our grey matter.

Anaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day’s work for the world’s wildest veterinarian. Travelling from the rainforests of Sierra Leone to the jungles of Borneo, Romain Pizzi has caught, anaesthetised, diagnosed, operated on, medicated, and then...

Conventional wisdom about running is passed down like folklore (and sometimes contradicts itself). In Running Smart, Mariska van Sprundel, a science journalist and recreational runner who has had her fair share of injuries, sets out to explore the science behind such claims. 

In his beautifully written prose, Dr Jonathan Reisman - physician, adventure traveller and naturalist - allows listeners to navigate their insides like an explorer discovering a new world. Through his offbeat adventures in healthcare and travel, Reisman discovers new perspectives on the body: a...

Comment le dentifrice agit-il sur nos dents, les effets du café sur notre cerveau, l'incroyable chimie des odeurs corporelles, les molécules du stress, pourquoi dit-on "brûler ses graisses"... La chimie est partout et personne ne vous l'avait dit ! Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, jeune chimiste passionnée, nous invite, le temps d'une journée, à parcourir le laboratoire de chimie qu'est notre vie, jusqu'à notre propre microbiome, un écosystème encore plus fort que le microbiote.

From one of America’s top physicians, a “riveting,” “fascinating,” and “timely” (Nature) history of risk in medicine  Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A...

Del autor de "Una breve historia de casi todo" (200.000 ejemplares vendidos). Nos pasamos toda una vida con un solo cuerpo y casi no sabemos cómo funciona. Desde los genes hasta nuestra capacidad de hablar, pasando por nuestras constantes adaptaciones al medio y los riesgos que corremos, este libro nos descubre que nuestro microcosmos es un verdadero milagro, lleno de prodigios y de secretos asombrosos. Explicar el cuerpo humano en toda su integridad, y hacerlo para todos los públicos, solo está al alcance de un autor como Bill Bryson.

You are told that the only way to fix the numbers is to take prescription medications, and you exhaust “Dr. Google” in an effort to find ways around taking those meds. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all way to understanding your blood test results. You are unique. Yes, healthy nutrition and exercise are essential, and medications may be necessary. However, there are so many things to take into consideration first when nothing about your health is cookie-cutter.

This book serves to do simply that by supplying you with an established application on how to start the ketogenic food regimen. You will also be shown the numerous other benefits of the ketogenic food plan, in addition to actionable facts. This will be done with the intention of preparing you so that you will experience long-lasting weight loss, inches of reduction in body measurements, and a better temper.

The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor’s heart up the motorway hard shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive intervention gone awry in US hospitals, to a traumatic trip to bring advanced cardiac surgery to the Palestinian West Bank. Nashef tells heart-stopping stories of transplants, coronary artery bypasses, aorta repair and cardiac arrest.

Gut Reactions by chemist Simon Quellen Field shows us how our bodies react to food and the environment, and how our brain affects what and how much we eat, and in turn, is affected by what we eat. It shows why some diets work for some people but not for others, based on genetics, previous weight history, brain chemistry, environmental cues, and social pressures. It explores how dozens of hormones affect hunger and satiety and interact with the brain and the gut to regulate feeding behavior.

Fabien Olicard, le mentaliste français, vous présente sa masterclass ! Tout comme sur sa chaîne Youtube, découvrez des expériences à mener et des astuces pour bluffer les gens mais aussi améliorer votre vie au quotidien : comment aborder un inconnu, redeviner un prénom, reconnaître un menteur, retenir des formules mathématiques, faire passer les migraines... 50 astuces de mentaliste extraites des ouvrages "Votre cerveau est extraordinaire" et "Votre cerveau est définitivement extraordinaire".

Even though we still live in a big-boob bubble, many women are voluntarily reducing their breast size. Others are happily deciding to “go flat” after cancer, while transgender parents are coaxing milk out of transformed breasts. Are we entering a post-boob universe, one in which women are taking more control over what their breasts look like? Can women ever really take back their breasts?

Breasts have been bared, flaunted, measured, inflated, suckled, pierced, tassled -- and in every way fetishized by our society. Host and science journalist Florence Williams delves deeper into the mysteries of the human breast with funny and enlightening reporting. She tackles the big questions of why they evolved in the first place, how jet fuel ended up in breast milk, why they are arriving earlier and bigger in teen-aged girls, man boobs, and how breast cancer in men can help female breast cancer patients.

[Contains explicit content] Mike Partain was born on a storied Marine Corps base in North Carolina. Thirty-nine years later, he was diagnosed with breast cancer. Then he started finding old neighbors who had been diagnosed, too. Thanks to these rare male outliers, scientists are learning more about what causes one of the deadliest women's diseases in the world.

[Contains explicit content] It can save babies’ lives and supply rarified fatty acids, antibodies and proteins. But breastmilk also contains tons of mysterious sugars not digestible by babies. So what are they for? And what can the answer teach us about the future of health and medicine, even for adults?

In this episode, we talk to Chelsea Handler about her relationship with her large and well-publicized rack, and find out what chemicals she has coursing through her bloodstream that might endanger her (and everyone’s) prized organs.

[Contains explicit content] Every mammal has mammary glands, but only humans have permanent, rounded, full-on breasts. Why? What are breasts really for, anyway? The answers matter, because they influence how we see each other and see ourselves. In this episode, Florence Williams climbs the largest breasts in the world (they’re in England) and talks to Oxford’s Desmond Morris, author of the classic book, The Naked Ape.

Retailers are now selling bras with princess characters on them. Girls are reaching puberty earlier than ever before. In this episode, we talk to some families and experts at the center of the quest to understand how modern life is changing breasts, and what it means for our future.

In modern-day America, we’re constantly bombarded with images of perfectly round, big, pneumatic knockers. Where did this ideal come from, and is it really everyone’s favorite boob type? Florence Williams administers the “Swami test” to find out which breast size most men prefer, and tries to get to the bottom of some of our most cherished and misguided myths.