I have to admit, my perspective on the role of muscles has pretty much exclusively pertained to movement. Skeletal muscle enables us to blink, smile, walk, play tennis, and chew our food. But while we don’t mind the effort required to masticate our food, the average...

Finland is said to be the birthplace of saunas. Reports state that there are 3.3 million saunas in Finland for a population of approximately 5.5 million people. Evidently, sauna bathing is part of the culture. The Finns call it the poor man’s pharmacy. Sauna bathing...

In the midst of desolate desert, with Las Vegas, Nevada, just a few hours away, rises the magnificence of Zion National Park. Here, the contrast of burnt orange red hues and white sandstone form gigantic edifices and walls. The intense blue backdrop of the sky, the...