Ariel Schwartz

The rising rate of colon cancer in young people can't be caused by diet alone, doctors say. Microplastics, sleep, and antibiotics may play a role.

Business Insider got a peek into the 2024 Longevity Investors Conference, where billionaires chatted with scientists and entrepreneurs.

Watching the Olympics might make you wonder how they do it. What sets these athletes apart from the rest of us? Science offers a few hints.

I started losing my hair in my 40s due to androgenic alopecia. After trying expensive wigs, I was forced to rethink beauty.

People are calling Zyn nicotine pouches O-Zyn-pic. But medical experts say using nicotine for weight loss could be a risky idea.

Corporate owners are devouring physician practices, making independent doctors a relic of the past.

Sam Altman started a $180 million side project called Retro Biosciences, hoping to add 10 healthy, enjoyable years onto the back end of our lifespans.

Oprah Winfrey gave away her shares in WW International, known as Weight Watchers, and the stock price tanked. WW now needs to find a new identity.

Ro is the first prominent healthcare company to offer compounded semaglutide.

Patients and doctors share their perspectives on the biggest ever revolution in obesity medicine.

Business Insider's "Forever Young" explores the many ways we as a society are pursuing longer, healthier lives — through new drugs, supplements, lifestyle tweaks, scientific experiments, and more.

The author put her plants in a truck and headed south. Starting over sounded fun, but isolation forced a painful reckoning.

Take a peek inside life in Loma Linda, California — the US's only original Blue Zone — where people live 10 extra years.

Business Insider's series "Modern Loneliness" explores the causes and effects of loneliness, as well how people are navigating isolation in a digitally connected world.

I got to exercise with Mark Wahlberg and try his workout routine to promote his F45 fitness studio. It took me 48 hours to be able to walk steadily again.

Metformin has been prescribed for decades to manage diabetes. But it may also help prevent cancer and cognitive decline in older people.

When Mark Horowitz was 21, he began taking antidepressants. He never imagined the debilitating withdrawal symptoms he'd experience 13 years later while trying to come off the drug.

Prospective CoolSculpting patients should seek established providers and know the signs of paradoxical adipose hyperplasia.

In the church-lined hills of western North Carolina, over a thousand preppers came together to talk guns, fermented cabbage, and survivalism.

Silicon Valley parents can see firsthand, either through living or working in the Bay Area, that tech is potentially harmful to kids.