The authors of A Return to Healing give you tips and advice about how to improve your health and negotiate an often deceptive health care system. And it all comes down to common sense!
Your zip code has some impact on your health, but the details are not as simple as one might imagine. We know, for instance, that lifestyle health benefits are more difficult to achieve in people in the inner city, who work long hours, who have lower income with financial stress, and who live in rural areas. People traditionally who live in areas with more health care also tend to engage in more beneficial lifestyle practices. But in fact, as indices such as the Dartmouth A...
25 Oct 2026
Health Care in Your Home: Safety, Medical Devices, and Gadgets
A lot of people have started buying devices promising to find problems and lead to cure. These may include sugar monitors, blood pressure cuffs, and even monitors to find heart irregularities including the dreaded afib. But are these devices helpful, or could they have a dark side? We discuss all of this today, but we also focus on what is most important to home safety and health promotion, and it has nothing to do with gadgets. Well, one gadget is beneficial, one that...
18 Oct 2026
Our Healthgevity: Why we don't only live shorter, but we live worse
Alan and Andy discuss the HALE scale, a subset of longevity that measures the average length of years people live without being disabled. The longevity in our country averages 79 years, about 4 years lower than most industrialized nations. But we do far worse in the HALE score, where our healthgevity (the average length of life we live not disabled) is 63 years, meaning that on average we spend the last 16 years of our lives suffering poor health or frank disability. C...
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