Health Discovered

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WebMD Chief Physician Editor Neha Pathak, MD, and Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, MPH, explore fascinating stories to find the unexpected things that help us understand our health.

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Health Discovered episodes:

04.18.2024
The Path to Restorative Sleep: Insomnia Insights from a Sleep Expert
Every night, millions of Americans are affected by insomnia. Insomnia presents in various forms, including difficulty falling asleep at night and frequent waking up during the sleep cycle, resulting in feeling tired during the day. What are the causes of insomnia? And...
04.11.2024
Gallstones and Gallbladder Health: What to Know and Life After Removal
More than one million Americans are diagnosed with gallstones every year, and women of all ages are more likely to develop them. How are gallstones formed? What do they mean for our health? While gallbladder problems can be uncomfortable and potentially risky, understanding...
04.04.2024
Health Disparities, Equity, and Empowerment: Transforming Black Health Outcomes
Health equity is when everyone has a fair opportunity to achieve their highest level of health. But in the United States, that’s not always the case. Today, Black Americans are more likely to die at early ages for most health...
03.28.2024
A Guide to Colorectal Cancer: Screening, Prevention, and Early Detection
March is colorectal cancer awareness month. According to the American Cancer Society, nearly double the number of young adults under 55 are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. And while it’s a highly treatable cancer, many people will not have symptoms in the...
03.21.2024
Can We Build The Lives We Want? Discussing the Science of Happiness with Arthur C. Brooks
Many people desire happiness, but is there a science to being happy? Can we learn to be happy regardless of external challenges? Are there evidence-based tools and practices for managing emotions and enhancing our lives? We spoke with Arthur C. Brooks, who...
03.15.2024
The Chemicals in Our Clothes: How to Clean Up Our Closets
Often, when we think of toxic chemicals, our minds go to household cleansers or environmental pollution. But we can also be affected by harmful chemicals in our clothing. What are some of the chemicals found in clothing, and what potential impact do...
03.07.2024
How Can Lifestyle Medicine Positively Impact Weight Management?
Weight management is something that many people struggle with. And sometimes, it can feel impossible. But what happens when we shift our focus beyond the scale? How would incorporating sleep management tools, social support and connection, and other pillars of...
02.29.2024
Heart Health Disparities and Black Americans: Risk Factors, Prevention, and Lifestyle Changes
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States alone, with one person dying from heart disease every 33 seconds. February, in addition to American Heart...
02.22.2024
How Can Practical Optimism Change Our Lives?
Between the extreme opposites of toxic positivity and pessimism lies a healthy middle ground that we often overlook: practical optimism. What does it mean to move through the world with optimism? And even if we often feel pessimistic or hypervigilant, how...
02.15.2024
Reimagining Romantic Relationships: Managing Expectations and Communicating Needs
Over the past century in the U.S., there's been a societal transformation in what we expect from our romantic relationships. It's not just about love anymore; there's a growing belief that our partners will fulfill many roles, including being instrumental...
02.08.2024
Heart Valve Disease Awareness: Prevention, Symptoms, and Treatments
February is American Heart Month, and a pivotal date, February 22nd, shines a spotlight on Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day, emphasizing the significance of the role heart valves play in maintaining our overall health and well-being. What function do the heart valves serve? What...
02.01.2024
From Microaggressions to Hypervigilance: How Racism Affects Black Mental Health
When we think of racism, we often think of overt acts of prejudice and discrimination, but what about subtle microaggressions, bias, and systemic barriers? February is Black History Month, and we are looking at the ways trauma and stress due to racism can...
01.25.2024
Sober Curious? Shift Your Relationship To Alcohol With Mindful Drinking
In January, many people choose to refrain from alcohol, or what is known as a “dry January,” after potential excess during the holiday season. But what about those who want to refrain longer or explore their relationship with alcohol? What...
01.18.2024
Cervical Health 101: Pap Smears, HPV, and Cervical Cancer
Do you know the difference between a pap smear and a pelvic exam? Do you know where the cervix is located and what it does? Most importantly, what about the connection between human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer? According...
01.11.2024
Top Tips for Men to Take Control of Their Health: From Screenings to Mental Health
A 2023 survey by Cleveland Clinic found that 44% of men do not get an annual physical exam. How should men take control of their health? What are the top health concerns for men after the age of 40? What health...
01.04.2024
Start the New Year with Self-Compassion
In the first episode of the new year, Dr. Pathak takes a different approach to traditional New Year's resolutions. Rather than overwhelming you with the pressure of becoming a "new you," this episode encourages listeners to appreciate and love...
12.27.2023
How to Create Healthy Boundaries in Complex Relationships
Many of us can relate to feeling triggered or having our buttons pushed in our closest relationships, but what can we do about it? Is there an effective way to identify and communicate healthy boundaries? Can we create and sustain healthier connections even...
12.21.2023
Can We Calm Our Mind With Food?
It’s commonly said that we are what we eat. A great deal of research has been done to find a correlation between healthy diets and brain function, but misinformation persists. Figuring out how certain foods impact our physical, mental, and emotional health while...
12.14.2023
Understanding Seasonal Affective Disorder (It's Not Just the Winter Blues)
We've all heard of seasonal affective disorder, but did you know that it's more than just the winter blues? The cooler temperatures, seasonal changes, and limited daylight hours of the winter months can stir up a certain cozy feeling, but they...
12.07.2023
Vaccine Skepticism or Anti-Science Aggression? A Talk with Dr. Peter Hotez
What happens when vaccine hesitancy and medical misinformation evolve into an anti-science aggression? While navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, we found ourselves facing daily monumental decisions regarding our health. As the pandemic continued, many of us became well-informed about viral loads, the...
11.30.2023
HIV/AIDS: From Misinformation to Medical Breakthroughs
Forty years ago, the idea that HIV would shift from a terminal illness to a chronic manageable disease was almost unthinkable. In recent years, another health crisis, COVID-19, much like HIV, was wrought with fear, stigma, and misinformation. In honor...
11.22.2023
Is Breathwork the Key to Nervous System Regulation?
Have you ever been in a stressful situation where it feels as if you are losing control of your body? Activation of the sympathetic nervous system may cause our chest to tighten, our thoughts to race, and our breathing...
11.16.2023
Everything You Need To Know About Pancreatic Cancer
In 2023 alone, an estimated 64,050 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, accounting for 3% of all cancers in the U.S. and 7% of all cancer deaths. The most concerning thing about pancreatic cancer is that detection often occurs in...
11.09.2023
Why Lung Cancer Screening Is Important Yet So Overlooked
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States. An estimated 238,340 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2023, and 64% of lung cancers are diagnosed at stage III or IV. With...
11.02.2023
Type 1 Diabetes: Myths, Challenges, and Treatment Breakthroughs
Type 1 diabetes is a condition in which your immune system destroys insulin-making cells in your pancreas. Typically diagnosed in childhood or adolescence, type 1 diabetes is not just a medical condition; it's a story of resilience and adaptability, requiring...
10.26.2023
Intimacy, Sexuality, and Cancer Survivorship: Communicating Wants, Needs, and Fears
Sexual health is crucial to our well-being. Despite its impact on our lives, it’s still not something we commonly discuss with our doctors. This is particularly true for cancer survivors, both during treatment and in the post-treatment phase. What are some...
10.19.2023
Navigating A Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Beyond: A Cancer Survivor’s Story
There are many misconceptions about what people experience following a breast cancer diagnosis. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we decided to look at breast cancer through the eyes of a survivor. We spoke with Bossi, a two-time breast cancer survivor, founder...
10.12.2023
Thriving Beyond Diagnosis: Exploring Cancer Survivorship and Wellness
More than 5% of the US population, 18.1 million people, are cancer survivors. Over the next decade, the number of people who have lived 5 or more years after their cancer diagnosis is projected to increase by approximately 30%. How do we define cancer...
10.05.2023
Important Breast Cancer Screening Updates: Risks and Recommendations
Each year in the United States, about 240,000 women and 2,100 men are diagnosed with breast cancer. The average risk of a woman in the United States developing breast cancer sometime in her life is about 13%. This means there is...
09.28.2023
Surviving to Thriving: Dr. Thema Bryant Unpacks Intergenerational Trauma
What is trauma? How does it manifest in our lives? How is trauma passed down through generations or within communities? And most importantly, what can we do about it? Most of us have some experience with trauma, but rarely, if ever,...
09.21.2023
Heart Failure and Women: Facts, Health Disparities and Solutions
Heart failure affects approximately 3 million women and is the leading reason for hospitalization and a major cause of death in women over age 65. What facts do women need to know about heart failure? Why is heart failure so prevalent in...
09.14.2023
Cleaning Up Our Personal Care Products: Weeding out Toxic Chemicals
The average adult uses a dozen personal care products daily, including shampoo, deodorants, lotions, and cosmetics. That averages to about 125 chemicals we are exposing ourselves to daily. How does this chemical buildup in our system increase the chance...
09.07.2023
Understanding Lymphoma: Risk Factors, Symptoms, and Survivorship
Every 3 minutes, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with a blood cancer. About half of the blood cancers that occur each year are lymphomas. Unlike some cancers, there is no widely recommended screening test for lymphoma, and as...
08.24.2023
How to Find the Right Therapist: Navigating Stigma, Blocks, and Treatment Modalities
Finding the right therapist can be challenging. Before we ever attend our first session, we must navigate health insurance, research available therapists who can meet our needs, and address our blocks to seeking therapy in the first place. So...
08.10.2023
Is American Motherhood Unsustainable?
American mothers are spread thin and feeling the strain of unrealistic parenting expectations. The lack of parental leave, rising healthcare costs, and constant messaging from both media and social media about how to be a "good mother" can leave...
07.27.2023
Menopause and the Mind: Unveiling the Mystery of Brain Fog
While many of us are familiar with well-known menopause symptoms such as hot flashes, libido changes, and mood swings, there is another symptom that deserves attention: brain fog. How exactly is brain fog linked to menopause, and what solutions and...
07.13.2023
What is Perimenopause and What Are My Treatment Options?
We've all heard about what happens during menopause, but what exactly occurs during perimenopause, why is it so important, and why is no one talking about it? We spoke with Sharon Malone, MD, obstetrician-gynecologist and chief medical officer at Alloy...
06.21.2023
Surviving Migraine: Expert Insights on Diagnosis and Treatment
June is Migraine Awareness Month, shedding light on the over 1 billion people globally experiencing migraine. In this episode, Dr. John Whyte sits down with two migraine experts, Dr. Cynthia E Armand, clinical director of Montefiore Headache Center and fellowship...
06.15.2023
Getting Hotter in Perimenopause: Conversation and Community as Medicine
Perimenopause, the time in our lives leading up to menopause, can be isolating and confusing for many of us. A lot of medical literature surrounding perimenopause is often outdated, with language oriented toward the end of our sexuality and vitality,...
05.11.2023
"But You Look Fine!" What Happens When You Have An Invisible Chronic Illness?
Invisible illnesses – illnesses with no outwardly visible signs or symptoms – can be a frustrating and discouraging experience when it comes to navigating healthcare as a patient. Between short appointments, appearing outwardly healthy, and ever-changing health insurance for those...
04.21.2023
Climate Change and Families: Small Changes Have a Big Impact
When it comes to climate change, anxiety is a common feeling among many of today’s youth. From fires to air quality, to hurricanes and floods, exposure to diseases, and more, the rising concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere profoundly...
03.23.2023
Heart Failure: How to Be Your Best Advocate
Few people know the importance of finding your voice when you have heart failure better than Rhonda Monroe, who held a press conference from her hospital bed when she knew she needed better treatment - then went on to found...
03.09.2023
Health Equity and the Heart Failure Journey
What's it like to be a person of color with heart failure? James Young will discuss how his community and lifestyle played into his condition -- and how he got his health back on track. Michelle M. Kittleson, MD, PhD,...
02.09.2023
Tips for Living With Plaque Psoriasis
Ingrid Tablazon, a young medical student living with plaque psoriasis, joins us to talk about her journey -- from discovering itchy spots on her scalp at age 9 to what it takes to find the right doctor. She'll also touch...
01.05.2023
Getting Real About Climate Action in 2023
For more and more of us, the impacts of climate change got real in 2022 – from wildfires, to floods, to hurricanes and deadly heat waves. As we enter 2023, what actions can we take – in our own lives...
12.22.2022
How to Manage Emotions Through the Holidays
With the holidays being a time of celebration and cheer, it can often be difficult when our emotions don’t match. Why do so many of us – during a joyful time – tend to deal with feelings of sadness? And...
12.15.2022
The Fight for Equity in Multiple Myeloma Care
The journey to a multiple myeloma diagnosis can be a long one. That’s especially true for people of color, who are often diagnosed late in the course of the disease. Why does this happen? What can we do about it?...
12.08.2022
The Effects of Opioid Use on Life After Prison
The U.S. has a huge problem with opioid use and addiction among inmates. We also have some of the highest crime recidivism – or reoffence – rates in the world. We asked Brendan Saloner, PhD, associate professor of Addiction and Overdose at John Hopkins,...
12.01.2022
What it's Like to Live With Multiple Myeloma
This rare form of blood cancer causes plasma cells in your bone marrow to grow out of control. Kate H., who was diagnosed after a routine blood test, gives us insight into what it’s really like to live with this...
11.24.2022
The Effects of Overeating: Holiday Edition
The holidays are here and for many of us that means one thing -- lots of yummy food! Unfortunately, with so many comfort foods and delicious desserts on hand, it's really easy to eat too much. So we wondered –...

What's Health Discovered about?

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Health Discovered episodes:

The Path to Restorative Sleep: Insomnia Insights from a Sleep Expert

Gallstones and Gallbladder Health: What to Know and Life After Removal

Health Disparities, Equity, and Empowerment: Transforming Black Health Outcomes

A Guide to Colorectal Cancer: Screening, Prevention, and Early Detection

Can We Build The Lives We Want? Discussing the Science of Happiness with Arthur C. Brooks

The Chemicals in Our Clothes: How to Clean Up Our Closets

How Can Lifestyle Medicine Positively Impact Weight Management?

Heart Health Disparities and Black Americans: Risk Factors, Prevention, and Lifestyle Changes

How Can Practical Optimism Change Our Lives?

Reimagining Romantic Relationships: Managing Expectations and Communicating Needs

Heart Valve Disease Awareness: Prevention, Symptoms, and Treatments

From Microaggressions to Hypervigilance: How Racism Affects Black Mental Health

Sober Curious? Shift Your Relationship To Alcohol With Mindful Drinking

Cervical Health 101: Pap Smears, HPV, and Cervical Cancer

Top Tips for Men to Take Control of Their Health: From Screenings to Mental Health

Start the New Year with Self-Compassion

How to Create Healthy Boundaries in Complex Relationships

Can We Calm Our Mind With Food?

Understanding Seasonal Affective Disorder (It's Not Just the Winter Blues)

Vaccine Skepticism or Anti-Science Aggression? A Talk with Dr. Peter Hotez

HIV/AIDS: From Misinformation to Medical Breakthroughs

Is Breathwork the Key to Nervous System Regulation?

Everything You Need To Know About Pancreatic Cancer

Why Lung Cancer Screening Is Important Yet So Overlooked

Type 1 Diabetes: Myths, Challenges, and Treatment Breakthroughs

Intimacy, Sexuality, and Cancer Survivorship: Communicating Wants, Needs, and Fears

Navigating A Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Beyond: A Cancer Survivor’s Story

Thriving Beyond Diagnosis: Exploring Cancer Survivorship and Wellness

Important Breast Cancer Screening Updates: Risks and Recommendations

Surviving to Thriving: Dr. Thema Bryant Unpacks Intergenerational Trauma

Heart Failure and Women: Facts, Health Disparities and Solutions

Cleaning Up Our Personal Care Products: Weeding out Toxic Chemicals

Understanding Lymphoma: Risk Factors, Symptoms, and Survivorship

How to Find the Right Therapist: Navigating Stigma, Blocks, and Treatment Modalities

Is American Motherhood Unsustainable?

Menopause and the Mind: Unveiling the Mystery of Brain Fog

What is Perimenopause and What Are My Treatment Options?

Surviving Migraine: Expert Insights on Diagnosis and Treatment

Getting Hotter in Perimenopause: Conversation and Community as Medicine

"But You Look Fine!" What Happens When You Have An Invisible Chronic Illness?

Climate Change and Families: Small Changes Have a Big Impact

Heart Failure: How to Be Your Best Advocate

Health Equity and the Heart Failure Journey

Tips for Living With Plaque Psoriasis

Getting Real About Climate Action in 2023

How to Manage Emotions Through the Holidays

The Fight for Equity in Multiple Myeloma Care

The Effects of Opioid Use on Life After Prison

What it's Like to Live With Multiple Myeloma

The Effects of Overeating: Holiday Edition