Selected Publications (Since 2006)

• WebMD Interview. April 8, 2024. Collagen Supplements for Skin, Hair and Nail. What to know.
• http://WebMD Interview. April 8, 2024. Collagen Supplements for Skin, Hair and Nail. What to know. https://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/news/20240408/collagen-supplements-for- skin-hair-nails-what-to-know?src=RSS_PUBLIC
• New York Times Interview. October 31, 2023. Should I be taking supplements?
• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/well/eat/supplements-health-benefits.html
• New York Times Interview. September 13, 2023. What Can Tumeric Actually Do for Your
• Health? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/well/turmeric-health-benefits.html
• NPR Airtalk. May 1, 2023. A Recent Study Pulled Back The Curtain On Melatonin Supplements –
• What’s A Bad Sleeper To Do?
• https://www.kpcc.org/podcast/airtalk/hollywood-writers-authorize-strike-what-will-happen-to-
• production
• Parade.com Interview. April 11, 2023. This Is the One Supplement You Should Stop Taking With
• Food, According to Experts https://parade.com/health/taking-supplements-on-an-empty-
• stomach

• Yahoo Sports. January 1st, 2021. “Supplements That are ‘Not Worth Paying For’.”
• Eat This, Not That!. January 1st, 2021. “Supplements That are ‘Not Worth Paying For’.”
• Newsbreak. January 1st, 2021 “Supplements That are ‘Not Worth Paying For’.”
• Flipboard. January 1st, 2021. “Supplements That are ‘Not Worth Paying For’.”
• Opera News. January 1st, 2022. “Supplements That are ‘Not Worth Paying For’.”
• Think: Act Magazine (Cover Story). October 19, 2021. “Why Wellbeing is a Business Matter.”
• Spectrum NEWS1, Inside the Issues. April 2, 2021. “Life Skills Course Expanded to All 10 UC Campuses.”
• CNN. January 7, 2021. “Some Parents Expand Pandemic Bubble to Include Children’s Boyfriends and Girlfriends.”
• OC Register. December 2, 2020. “With the Pandemic Boosting College Stress, the UC System is Boosting the Course ‘Life 101’.”
• Campus Safety Magazine. December 4, 2020. “UC Expands Self-Care Course to All 10 Campuses Amid Pandemic.”
• Forbes. December 26, 2018. “Kin Euphorics Promises Benefits Of Booze With No Hangover.”
• Huffington Post. September 21, 2017. “Mahtab Jafari: Reach for the Moon and Land on It.”
• Wall Street Journal. March 9, 2016. “Seeking Elixir of Life, A Scientist Studies Fruit Flies.”
• International Business Times. December 9, 2015. “Drinking too much green tea might harm reproductive organs, decrease fertility.”
• 89.3 KPCC. Southern California Public Radio. December 8, 2015. “Can drinking too much green tea make you less fertile?”
• Smithsonian Magazine. SMARTNEWS. May 14, 2015. “Alaska is growing a plant the Soviet military used in secret experiments; Golden Root or Rhodiola rosea.“
• 89.3 KPCC. Southern California Public Radio. May 4, 2015. “Curcumin for Humans.” 
• Orange County Register. October 28, 2013. “Life Lessons.” 
• Orange County Register. June 26, 2013. “Siberian Herb Extends Lives, UCI Researchers Say.” 
• Yahoo! Voices. July 5, 2013. “Rhodila rosea Furthers Lifespan of Fruit Flies by 24%.” 
• MSN News. July 2013. “Scientists discover plants make flies live longer, Fad to follow.”
• Yale University The Science Studio: A Conversation with Mahtab Jafari. May 9, 2012. “Botanicals and the Pathway of Aging.”
• NBC Morning News Los Angeles, Ca. October 17, 2010. “Researcher Says It is The Spice of Life. UCI article ‘The Spice of Life’.”
• Los Angeles Times. October 17, 2010. “Popular Spice May Prove Useful Beyond the Kitchen.”
• Wall Street Journal. March 2, 2010. “Can a caffeine-packed plant give a boost?”
• OC Metro Business Magazine. March 2008. “20 Women to Watch in OC.”
• Orange County Register. December 20, 2007. “Can you live to be 100?”
• Orange County Register. November 27, 2005. “The Skin You’re In.”
• UCI Website. September 08, 2003. “On a Quest for Longevity.”