Author: Erin Elizabeth

Kava, also often called kava kava, is a member of the nightshade family of plants and native to the South Pacific islands. Pacific Islanders have used it for hundreds of years as a ceremonial drink to promote a state of relaxation. More recently, kava has received widespread attention for its relaxing and stress-reducing properties. RELATED STORY: A Portable Hammock Hot Tub That Will Forever Change The Way You Relax? Yes Please! However, it has been linked with several health concerns, raising questions about its safety. This article explains everything you need to know about the benefits and dangers of...

Good news for all you wine drinkers on this halfway point through the week: according to a long-term study, booze beats exercise if you want to make it into your 90s! (You probably don’t need to do anything else but celebrate that truth for the rest of the day!) RELATED STORY: Cannabis-Infused Wine – What’s In Store For The Future? “The research, led by University of California neurologist Claudia Kawas, tracked 1,700 nonagenarians enrolled in the 90+ Study that began in 2003 to explore impacts of daily habits on longevity. Researchers discovered that subjects who drank about two glasses of...

Last year, around this same time, scientists announced that they had created the first “successful human-animal hybrid” 1thereby establishing that human cells could be “introduced into a non-human organism (in this case a pig), survive, and grow inside a host animal.”2 And so, building on that previous work, scientists are busy creating yet again, but this time it’s a sheep-human hybrid embryo. By “introducing human stem cells into sheep embryos”3the team was able to create a “hybrid creature that’s more than 99 percent sheep”4 but also a little bit human (which is what is so controversal about this experiment). The findings were presented last...