by Christine M | May 18, 2018 | General health, Genetics, Mind/body, Relationships, Scientific research, Wellbeing
If holding hands with someone who loves you can ease pain, could arguing with your partner make pain worse? It very well might do just that, say researchers from the Penn State Center for Healthy Aging. Published in the journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine, the...
by Christine M | Sep 3, 2016 | Genetics, Weightloss
Here’s another story about how your genes affect your behaviour in more ways than you might think. This time, it’s all to do with how you feel about your weight. We all know people who are as thin as whippets but moan at every opportunity about how fat...
by Christine M | Aug 26, 2016 | Food and drink, Genetics
How many do you have a day? One, two, three? More? If you’re not one of those people who can’t function without knocking back numerous cups of coffee, chances are you have a DNA variation in a gene called PDSS2. And there you were thinking it was something...