Christmas comes "early" this year, meaning, according to my mother, that Thanksgiving is "late" and there are not quite four weeks separating the two most elaborate and stressful American holidays. "Bring it!" I say, because the anticipation is killing me.

It started when Halloween and the end of Daylight Savings...

Here, at HuffPost Living, we have an obsession with sleep. How much should we be getting? Is there a difference between the genders? Why are so many people sleep-deprived? How can we treat sleep disorders? And the list goes on...

That's why it was so exciting at TEDMED...

This morning's session at TEDMED 2009 was a great moment for HuffPost Living. First up was HuffPost Living's Medical Editor, Dr. Dean Ornish, who also approved all the food served at the conference. Ornish, while standing on stage holding his beautiful baby girl, spoke about intimacy and...

How would you like to die? This was precisely the question Aubrey de Grey, the chief science officer at the SENS Foundation, opened his TEDMED 2009 talk with. He gave us three options: cancer, diabetes or Alzheimer's. He seemed downright angry (yet tongue-in-cheek) that the elderly have lost...

Day 2 at TEDMED 2009 and the energy is high. This morning's session began with John Abele, the co-founder of the Boston Scientific Corporation, who spoke about collaboration in technology and science. First, he showed us a dictionary definition of collaboration, then jokingly showed us that there's no...

Tonight marks the start to the 2009 TEDMED conference, which runs from October 27th through 30th at the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego, California. TED, an acronym for technology, entertainment, and design, is a non-profit devoted to "ideas worth spreading." This year's TEDMED is the fifth in...

Sometimes, we just need to unplug.

No speeding to meditation class. No updating Facebook profiles. No furious recitations of positive affirmations or stuffing healthy food into our mouths too fast. No compulsively -- okay, obsessively -- thumbing through iPhones, BlackBerries and health journals. Yes, stimulation is all around us --...

When I took the job as Living editor here at the Huffington Post this past July, I did so because I wanted to provide a platform for voices of the voiceless and create a hub of important and meaningful dialogue around issues that affect our inner lives (spirituality, psychology), quality...