Enduring a week’s worth of cold water plunges can jolt the body’s cells into starting the process of autophagy to clean up ...

Everyone and their mom seems to be talking about cold plunging right now. Celebs like Kate Middleton and Brooke Shields have ...

Each morning for a week, ten young men braced themselves before slipping into tubs of frigid water — just 14 degrees Celsius, ...

For example, at the first Keystone Symposium on Autophagy in Health and Disease, held in 2007, Seiji Kondo noted that in the field of cancer research, his colleagues' response when discussing the ...

Josephine Thinwa shares her journey to becoming a physician scientist and how this led her to investigate the role of a neurologically important kinase in virus-induced autophagy. Just like people ...

A new study from the University of Ottawa finds repeated cold plunges may improve cellular health and resilience by enhancing ...

Explore the science behind cold plunges and how they transform your cells for better health and cold tolerance.

Autophagy has been linked to inflammatory bowel disease. Studies of two different mouse strains deficient in the autophagy-related gene product Atg16L1 now show that autophagy is important in ...

The study also adds to growing research that links oxidative stress—when harmful molecules like nitric oxide build up in the ...

This study shows that poor oral health — particularly gum infections caused by Porphyromonas gingivalis — could make heart ...

A new study conducted at the Human and Environmental Physiology Research lab (HEPRU) at the University of Ottawa has unveiled ...