Unlike air pollution, noise pollution can't be seen—but it might be just as damaging.

Find out how to address your kids' concerns about climate change.

Your symptoms could indicate mold toxicity.

You may be able to do more good for the environment by changing what you eat rather than changing what you drive.

An estimated 3.8 million people die prematurely each year due to illnesses related to household air pollution. Three billion people cook using open fires or stoves that use fuels like coal and wood to produce heat, which pollute the air. But, many other everyday household items also contribute to poor air quality, such as cleaning products, air fresheners and paints. 

All of this is detrimental to one’s health, both short-term and long-term. In fact, environmental factors have been found to have a greater impact on the immune system than a person’s genetics.

Small steps lead to greater environmental change.

How does driving affect your lungs?

Plastic has become a huge problem not only for our environment but also for our health. A recent study released shows that billions of people are drinking tap water contaminated with plastic and that the United States is as at the highest contamination rate at 94 percent! 

The plastic problem is becoming an issue we can no longer ignore and was one that I was faced head on with my own family.

The morning that was going to change the direction of my work life started like any other morning in our house -- the rush to get the kids ready to go to school. I wanted to refill the kids’ water bottles when I realized there were no bottles! This wasn’t the first time this had happened. It happened every few days, so I told them, "Hey guys, you have to bring the bottles back because there's no way you're going to take a new bottle to school every day and just throw it into the garbage bin. So much plastic waste… just doesn't work."

The kids left for school and I went out jogging, but that day, as I was running, that conversation, just like many others along similar lines, made the connection in my mind. I thought to myself, there must be a different way, a better way…

As the world evolves, the high cost of the automobile is made clearer... for a number of reasons.

You hear about the dwindling bee population in the news. What can you do to help?

It's time to reconnect with nature.

If you don't want to give up animal products entirely, it's important to reduce your intake.

Find out what steps you can take to reduce food waste.

It's time to crawl out of your compartment, grab the kids and visit nature.

Opponents of palm oil cite the travesty of deforestation, obliteration of endangered species, and an assault on indigenous people. Is that always the case?

A piece of the farmers' market puzzle includes CSA programs or "community supported agriculture."

A piece of the farmers' market puzzle includes CSA programs or "community supported agriculture."

Not only is your health compromised with direct contact to plastic, but there are environmental concerns surrounding plastics as well.

There's a toxic epidemic going on, and it's affecting your food, water, air and many of the common items you use on an everyday basis.

Recently, the European Environment Agency (EEA) stated that air pollution was the leading environmental cause of death in urban Europe.

Recent data suggests that the fastest growing part of the population dealing with infertility includes women under the age of 25.

You commute, you bike, run, walk outside, breathing in everything that is in the environment around you... how is this affecting your lungs?

What you use in your kitchen to cook can severely affect your family's health.

There are silent disease-causing toxins that may be lurking in your home. How can you avoid them?

Over 100 million people suffer from chronic pain, and the cause could be what is found in the environment.

Laura Turner Seydel discusses her work with the Environmental Working Group and Mothers and Others for Clean Air.

In honor of last week’s Earth Day, Dr. Darria visits with environmental advocate, Laura Turner Seydel of the Captain Planet Foundation.

A recent study published in Scope details whether the environment or your genes play a bigger role on your immune system.

Are the chemicals you may be exposed to keeping you from conceiving?

What are some steps you can take to clear away toxins and improve your health?

There are over 70,000 industrial chemicals in your environment and 1,000 new toxins are introduced every year.

Learn how your commute can actually get you healthy and help the environment as well.

Learn how your commute can actually get you healthy and help the environment as well.

Have you ever gotten to the end of your work day and felt nauseous? It may not be your boss that's causing you to feel this way.

Studies suggest toxins like obesogens can greatly contribute to both weight gain and the inability to lose weight.

How closely do you pay attention to the number within the triangle on the bottom of plastic containers? Do you know what each means?

The way your skin looks and feels can be a direct reflection of something going haywire inside your body.

Shampoos, pesticides, drinking water, plastics, and vehicle emissions all contain cancer-causing toxins that you are exposed to on a daily basis.

Improving mental performance through brain cell regeneration is possible with gastrodin, an extract of the exotic orchid Gastrodia elata.

When there is an excess of any hormone in relation to the whole intricate system we call the"endocrine system", an overall imbalance develops, and health problems can arise. When there is too much estrogen and not enough progesterone to counteract its effects, the situation is called estrogen dominance.

Estrogen dominance is a multi-factorial situation and is caused by such things as exposure to excess environmental xenoestrogens, use of synthetic estrogens such as the birth control pill and hormone replacement therapy (HRT), anovulation (lack of ovulation during menstrual cycle, which is not uncommon among women older than 35), digestion issues (which tax the estrogen-detoxification process in the liver), unrelenting stress (which strains the adrenals and the thyroid), unresolved emotional issues, poor diet and negative lifestyle factors such as smoking and alcohol use.

How does estrogen dominance specifically alter women's health?

Learn about two dangerous environmental toxins and how you can protect yourself and your loved ones from their damaging effects.

What impact does the environment you live in have on your chances of developing breast cancer?

Learn what functional medicine is, and why it may be right for you.

Learn how to limit your family's exposure to additives and chemicals that could be affecting your child's hormone levels.

Your clothes may contain toxic additives and could be harming the environment. Learn what you can do to make a change.

Can the heavy traffic in your commute be affecting your health? No matter where you live, the quality of the air you breathe impacts you every day.

Environmental activist and actor Ed Begley Jr. provides solutions for green living and natural options for soda lovers.

Magnesium deficiency is at epidemic proportions in the U.S. and could be a root cause of many of America’s health problems.

On average, North Americans discard a staggering 40% of the food we buy or grow. Learn how you can make a change.