What Happens Inside Your Body When You Snore
Tonight, more than a third of adult men and a fifth of women will make a sound they’re completely unaware of: snoring. To the person next to them it’s just…
What Happens Inside Your Body When You Drink Energy Drinks
You crack open an energy drink for a quick lift. Over the next few hours, inside your body, a measurable chain of events begins — your heart rate shifts, your…
What Happens Inside Your Body When You Eat Carbs Last
Two people sit down to the exact same meal — same rice, same chicken, same vegetables, same calories. They eat all of it. But inside their bodies, something quite different…
What Happens Inside Your Body When You Drink Too Much Water
In 2007, a healthy 28-year-old woman entered a radio contest with a simple rule: drink as much water as you can without going to the bathroom. Over about three hours…
What Happens Inside Your Body When a Kidney Stone Forms
People who've passed a kidney stone often describe it as the worst pain they've ever felt — some who've given birth rank it higher. What makes that almost unbelievable is…
What Happens Inside Your Body When You Hold Your Pee Too Long
We've all done it. You're in a meeting, on a long drive, or buried in a deadline, and the urge to pee arrives — so you ignore it. Once in…
What Happens Inside Your Body When You Sit All Day
Right now, there's a good chance you're sitting — at a desk, in a car, on a couch — and you may stay there for hours. It feels like the…
What Happens Inside Your Body When You Wear Earbuds All Day
For many of us, earbuds are in from the morning commute to the evening wind-down — calls, music, podcasts, all day long. They're small and convenient, but they create two…
The most common thing kids swallow isn’t what you’d guess
If you ask parents what children swallow most often, you'll hear "marbles," "toys," maybe "Legos." The real answer is far more ordinary: a coin. Across pediatric studies, coins are the…