Your mom wasn’t joking about vitamin C. But you shouldn’t just drink it in OJ—you’re going to want to slather the stuff all over your face. Turns out, vitamin C (also known as ascorbic acid) has some crazy-amazing, research-backed benefits that can help you look younger, glowier, and altogether better. No torturous beauty treatments required. …

Salt. The word itself makes our salivary glands stand at attention and our taste buds burst to life. But what’s in a word? In salt’s case it’s 40 percent sodium and 60 percent chloride: NaCl, common table salt, also known as halite, from the only family of rocks eaten by humans. Etymologically derived from Salus, …

If someone talks about themselves constantly, we’d forgive you for assuming they’re completely self-obsessed and maybe even a little narcissistic… But, according to new research, this behaviour might actually signal that they could be suffering from mental health issues. That’s according to research published this week in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, which …

A vaccine could one day protect men from developing prostate cancer, thanks to a breakthrough by UK scientists. As The Daily Mail reports, experts have designed a vaccine that boosts the immune system’s ability to track down and kill prostate cancer cells as soon as they start to appear in the body. The research is at a …

You’ve heard of vitamins A, B, C, D and E. But further down the alphabet is a lesser known nutrient that rarely gets a mention, yet is essential for health – vitamin K. In fact, recent clinical studies have suggested that taking vitamin K2 could help reduce the bone loss that women suffer with age …