Mysteries of the Heart

Diet

Inflammation & Heart Disease

Thomas Larson on November 1, 2014

Help your coronary arteries heal themselves: Change your diet.

Help your coronary arteries heal themselves: Change your diet.

Cognition

Thinking Ourselves Heart-Sick

Thomas Larson on October 1, 2014

Either the heart attack symptom is real, imagined, both, or neither: a very tough call.

Either the heart attack symptom is real, imagined, both, or neither: a very tough call.

Once I was well; now I'm ill; what happened?

Caregiving

Women Caretaking Men, Part 2

Thomas Larson on July 1, 2014

More ways for couples to grow closer when heart disease strikes.

More ways for couples to grow closer when heart disease strikes.

Caregiving

Women Caretaking Men Part 1

Thomas Larson on June 2, 2014

Women who take care of men with heart disease, especially when men don't want to take care of themselves, suffer just as much. In this and next month's post, Thomas Larson looks at how couples do and don't endure heart attacks together.

Women who take care of men with heart disease, especially when men don't want to take care of themselves, suffer just as much. In this and next month's post, Thomas Larson looks at how couples do and don't endure heart attacks together.

A typical human heart, in twenty-first century America, accrues 1.5 billion heartbeats. How do I think about this number, imagine its totality?

Cognition

The Heart and a Language To Describe It

Thomas Larson on April 1, 2014

The rich and conflicted languages we have to speak about the heart.

The rich and conflicted languages we have to speak about the heart.

In September 1955, several months before he had to decide on a second term, President Dwight Eisenhower had a midnight heart attack. How did he survive?