Hilary Brueck is a senior health and science reporter at Insider where she focuses on public health and human performance. Hilary writes regularly about fitness, nutrition, infectious diseases, vaccine safety, mental health, and toilets of all kinds. Her reports range from exploring how sherpas effortlessly climb into the thin air 29,029 feet above the sea to summit Mount Everest, to revealing how the chemicals in our food, water, and homes influence our bodies.
