Author: Tom Patriot

Stretch marks are a natural part of life, but for some people, they’re an unwanted nuisance that must be minimized or eliminated. And while there are a lot of products and procedures that claim to make stretch marks go away, most won’t help. Celebs like Danielle Brooks and Chrissy Teigen (see photo below) have spoken openly about their stretch marks on Instagram, demonstrating it’s something even celebrities deal with: In order to figure out if certain treatments actually do work, HuffPost reached out to a few experts to figure out what exactly stretch marks are,…

Can you get sunburned through a window? Is SPF 100 twice as protective as SPF 50? Now that beach season is almost here, we’re shedding some light on ten sunscreen myths.

The ancestors of modern humans may have gotten genital herpes from the now-extinct relative of humanity commonly known as Nutcracker Man, a new study suggests. Analyzing the DNA of the viruses, bacteria and other life-forms that can infest people reveals not only the origins of human disease but also valuable hints about the lifestyles of past humans and their ancestors. For example, a 2007 study revealed that humans caught pubic lice, aka “crabs,” from gorillas about 3 million years ago, while a 2011 study suggested that Christopher Columbus and his crew brought…