Well, Now
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Supercommunicators | 2. How to Communicate Without Words
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it that we can tell someone “I’m totally fine!” and they instantly know we’re not? Gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, and oth...
Supercommunicators | 1. How to Talk to Anyone
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are some people able to talk with just about anyone—about almost anything? One answer may lie in the questions we ask—and how deeply we ask th...
The Future of Wellness
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a year of nuanced conversations on wellness, we say goodbye by reflecting on how these discussions expanded what it means to live a full, well-b...
Is Longer Life Really Possible?
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For eons, humans have been trying to find ways to live longer. It’s a quest that’s inspired legends and myths across cultures and continues to f...
Staying Sober This Holiday Season
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For many, the holiday season is both a joyful time with friends and family and a period of high stress with dangerous ways to cope. This can be especi...
More Than Hot Flashes: Breaking the Silence on Menopause
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
More than half the population will experience menopause if they’re fortunate enough to age. Yet so much of this full-body transformation remains a m...
Creating an Exercise Routine That’s Right for You
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Regular movement is crucial for lifelong health, but finding a routine that fits well in your life can be challenging and overwhelming. On this week’...
Being a "Likeable Badass" Could Improve Your Health
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do women gain social influence? Understanding this is crucial because research shows they often face unique challenges in having their voices he...
Getting to the Heart of Hormonal Health
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hormones influence everything from mood and energy levels to fertility and long-term health. Yet for many, hormonal health remains shrouded in myste...
Weed’s Growing (and Alarming) Side Effects
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly half of states – 24 and Washington, D.C – have legalized recreational marijuana. As more people report regularly using it, physicians are s...
Puberty is Starting Earlier and Lasting Longer. Why?
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Puberty is changing, and we’re not talking about developing Adam’s apples and growing hair in new places. It starts earlier and lasts longer. Rega...
Can Kids Be Healthy at Any Size?
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a weight-obsessed world, and children are not immune. From the moment a child is born, their weight and height are tracked and recorded. Th...
Are Supplements Actually Worth It?
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Go to the supplement aisle at the grocery store, and the options are endless. Scroll through any Instagram or TikTok feed, and you’re bound to see v...
What It’s Really Like to Take Ozempic
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, WeGovy, Mounjaro and others revolutionized weight loss and chronic weight management. But what does it feel like for the pat...
The Truth About IUDs
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Modern IUDs have been used for decades to prevent unwanted pregnancy and have been extremely effective at doing so. But they’re not without side eff...
Who Cares for the Caregivers?
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly half of healthcare workers are at a breaking point, describing that they often or very often feel burnt out on the job. Most of us have heard t...
How to Prepare for Back-to-School Season
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Summer is ending and school is officially back in session. For many, a new school year is the perfect time to create new goals and establish a routine...
What Drag Queens Can Teach Us About Healthcare
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drag is one of the fastest-growing forms of entertainment, and has been making its way into the mainstream in recent years. On this week’s episode o...
Eating for Health
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Health at Every Size is an approach that shifts the focus from dieting and weight loss and instead promotes healthy eating and exercise patterns, rega...
How to Reclaim Your Life After a Health Crisis
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, millions of Americans experience a stroke. Though the focus is often on prevention and immediate care, many patients are left with long-te...
Food Is More Than Fuel
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the food we eat directly impacts our physical health. But that’s just the start of the story. Food fuels our emotional well-being, conne...
No, Netflix Isn’t Forcing You to Go Vegan
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Research going back decades shows adding more fruits, vegetables, and non-animal sources of protein helps us live longer, healthier lives. A study f...
How to Avoid Heat-Related Illness
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a fact that summers around the world are reaching record-breaking temperatures. Heat-related illness and death have hit a crisis point, and sta...
Gut Check: How to Master Your Microbiome
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A key component to wellness is gut health. But what determines if you have a healthy gut? On this week’s episode of Well, Now, we dive into the fa...
How Nick Cannon Got Celebrities to Open Up About Their Mental Health
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all know about the mental health crisis wreaking havoc throughout the nation and world. On this week’s episode of Well, Now we’re continuing ...
The Full Truth About Ozempic
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few drugs in the last century have changed the landscape of healthcare and weight management like GLP-1 agonist drugs — drugs like Ozempic and WeGov...
Michelle Obama Gets Health Advice from This Gyno. Now You Can, Too.
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Women, girls, and people assigned female at birth make up more than half of the world’s population. Yet, many of them say they don’t feel supporte...
Psychedelics' Long Strange Trip to the Doctor's Office
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For years, psychiatrists have been researching new methods to help people with treatment-resistant mental illness. These include severe cases of depre...
Meet Gwyneth Paltrow’s Mold Guy
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows the quality of the air we breathe directly affects our health. As the summer rolls along and more people seek reprieve from the heat ...
Doctors Agree: Obesity is a Disease. The Public Needs to Catch Up.
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since it showed up on the Body Mass Index, the label “obese” has been used to judge and often shame people with larger bodies. Medical provid...
The Isolation of a Life-Threatening Diagnosis
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Each week, we’ve explored wellness from different perspectives, but we haven’t talked about what it means to live a full life while grappling with...
How Doulas Make Childbirth Safer For Everyone
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone has a different birth experience. Obstetricians and midwives are well-known members of the birth team. Along with the pregnant person, they...
“As Little Regulation as Guns”: How Social Media Hurts Youth Mental Health
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Youth mental health has hit a crisis point. Just last year, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released an advisory connecting young people’s use o...
Is Biohacking a Scam?
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For many Americans, wellness is about mitigating and navigating disease. They’re looking for reliable ways to live healthier, longer lives. But some...
Overcoming a Complicated Pregnancy
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For many, pregnancy is a time of heightened and joyful anticipation. There are doctor’s appointments, tests, preparation…All with a focus on bring...
How a Former Surgeon General Took on a $5,000 ER Bill
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who hasn’t received necessary medical care and got a shockingly high bill for it weeks later? Even with insurance, many Americans will experience ...
Living and Loving With OCD (feat. Allison Raskin)
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A vital component of wellness is taking care of our mental health. But mental wellness is more than just drinking water, doing yoga, and going for a w...
We Don’t Need to Cure Autism
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
April is Autism Acceptance Month, and how we’ve come to understand autism has evolved over the past several decades. For years, autism spectrum di...
Most Skincare Products are BS. Here Are the Facts.
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we approach the warmer months and start spending more time outside, healthy skin couldn’t be more important. So how can we best protect our body’...
Spring Cleaning Your Medicine Cabinet
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Spring is a time for fresh starts. For a lot of us, that means spring cleaning. But don’t worry, we’re not talking about the whole house. This w...
Eating Disorders Are Rising Among Boys. Why?
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eating disorders are one of the most deadly psychiatric disorders. But for decades, much of the criteria to diagnose one applied only to cisgender gir...
"People Feel Like They’re Drowning": The Long Covid Survivors Left Behind
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While most of the world moves on from Covid-19, millions of Americans remain in limbo: Those living with Long Covid. Long Covid symptoms are vast and ...
Life After Lockdown
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization named Covid-19 a pandemic, and public health around the globe changed forever. Countries shut down ...
How Your Food Can Fight Climate Change
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s impossible to ignore the impact of climate change. Sea levels are rising, and natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires are increasing in...
Ending Racism in Healthcare
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. healthcare system can split the country into two Americas. Your zip code, education, class status and more all play a role in the outcome of ...
Is it Burnout? Or, Do You Have a Busy Brain?
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stress is all around us, but that doesn’t mean it needs to run our entire lives. According to Dr. Romie Mushtaq – a neurologist turned corporate w...
What We Get Wrong About Love
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Well, Now’s ditching the flowers and grand romantic gestures we often see on Valentine’s Day. There’s tons of resear...
Football’s Concussion Crisis Starts Young
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Super Bowl LVIII is this Sunday, amid decades of controversy surrounding football’s impact on traumatic brain injuries. But for many athletes, these...
How ER Taught Thousands Of Viewers About Cervical Cancer
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s award season in Hollywood, and it’s got the Well, Now team thinking about wellness and the entertainment industry. Can a medical drama really...
Breaking Up With Diet Culture
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Well, Now, Maya and Kavita talk about practical ways to break up with diet culture with fitness instructor, speaker and ed...
What “Wellness” Is and Isn’t
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Well, Now we get to the heart of what “wellness” actually means. Depending on who you ask, you get a lot of different ...
A Toast to Dry January
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the first episode of Well, Now – Slate’s new podcast on health and wellness – hosts Dr. Kavita Patel and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Ma...
Introducing: Well, Now
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all want wellness, but what does that mean exactly? Is it achieving diet and exercise goals, or finally reaching a place where you’re happy wit...