HealthierU

As climate change continues to warm our planet, understanding the effects of heat on our health will become even more important. Yet many people aren’t aware of the impact that extreme heat can have o...

30 Apr 20258min

We all know that feeling after a large, delicious meal, where our food baby overtakes our body. You know the one, where you feel extremely bloated, with a swollen gut? If you continuously feel abdomin...

23 Apr 20258min

Microplastics are all around us, from the fabric of our clothes to the Tupperware container we warm our leftovers in—they’ve even been found in the human brain. We rely on plastic for affordability an...

16 Apr 20259min

Between IUDs, pills, hormonal patches, Depo-Provera injections and many other methods, women trying to prevent pregnancies have an array of options—none of them all that appealing. Let’s turn to the c...

9 Apr 202517min

Imagine a diet consisting only of two things: meat and dairy. Welcome to the carnivore diet, the internet's newest diet trend. Carnivores are all over social media raving about how the diet helped the...

2 Apr 202511min

The Healthier U podcast from Emory University’s Center for the Study of Human Health addresses essential health issues in our changing world. This season explores topics like fad diets, birth control,...

17 Feb 20251min

Have you ever struggled with your mental health and sought answers for your problems on the internet or social media? If so, this episode is for you, as host Lauryn Palacio dives into the complex prac...

8 Apr 202411min

In this episode of HealthierU, Bobby Mosely Jr. tries to answer the question: how does air pollution affect our health? Bobby speaks with Lauren Cohen, a student at Emory University, and Dr. Jeremy Sa...

1 Apr 202410min