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In 2022, Life Time opened 11 new athletic country club locations. Find out if there’s one that’s right for you — whether as your home club, or to have in your network wherever your travels take you.
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This Is Your Life Time Community
In 2022, we opened 11 new athletic country club locations, and added new offerings to support members on their healthy-way-of-life journey. Which new places or programs will you try?
Can Brain Retraining Help Me Recover From Long COVID?
Lingering symptoms from long COVID and other chronic-pain conditions might result from faulty feedback loops in the nervous system. Brain training can help resolve them.
What Is Functional Medicine?
Many people are finding better health solutions with functional medicine, a new model for how to practice medicine and treat chronic disease.
How Chronic Inflammation Affects Your Health
Our bodies need inflammation to fight off infection, but too much of it for too long can spur a wide range of illnesses. Learning to manage it effectively is key.
3 “Miracle Cure” Stories (That Aren’t, Really): Functional Medicine’s Approach to Chronic Illness
Too many chronic ailments have been pronounced “incurable.” Here’s how some forward-thinking practitioners are resolving such conditions — and transforming their patients’ lives.
How to Manage Chronic Pain — Naturally
An evolving understanding of pain is leading us to treatments that are safer — and more effective — than opioids.
What Is a Functional Neurological Disorder?
Hybrid disorders of the brain, mind, and body once confounded physicians and researchers. Today experts are beginning to uncover the conditions’ complexities — and how to treat them.
DIGIN: A 5-Step Functional-Medicine Protocol to Treat Digestive Disorders
This framework can help simplify the process of diagnosing and treating complex digestive disorders.
The Powerful Benefits of Moving Your Body
The benefits of physical activity can be felt in every part of the body, making you stronger, smarter, healthier, happier, and even more gorgeous.
What Chronic Conditions Might be Exacerbated by Food Reactivity?
Food sensitivities can make chronic conditions, such as Crohn’s disease, IBS, and ulcerative colitis worse.
How to Treat Long-Haul COVID
COVID-19 is leaving many with a disturbing array of chronic symptoms. These functional-medicine strategies can help.
What Is Homeopathy?
Treating mild ailments with homeopathic medicine is becoming more mainstream in U.S. healthcare. Learn how it works, and how to make it part of your own healthcare toolkit.
N-Acetylcysteine: What are the Health Benefits and How Much Should I Take?
A Life Time dietitian looks at the impact N-acetylcysteine can have in our health.
A New Look at Chronic Lyme
Many physicians who treat tick-borne diseases now combine conventional medicine with gentler integrative strategies — and more long-term patients are getting well.
The Future of Health
Discover some of the most promising developments in whole-person health.
How Empowered Health Seekers Are Redefining Healthcare
Is healthcare something delivered by a provider when you get sick — or something you do for yourself to stay vital, healthy and well? A growing number of health seekers say “both.” Together, they’re forging an empowered new path through America’s broken medical system.
Help Wanted: Health Coach
Trained to listen and support, rather than simply dole out advice, health coaches are attracting more attention than ever — from patients and from a healthcare industry desperate for solutions.
Measuring Meditation
For centuries, proponents of meditation have hailed its potential for healing body and mind. Now, science is backing a growing number of those claims.
Mark Hyman: Take Care of Yourself
Functional-medicine pioneer Mark Hyman, MD, is doing his best to help you avoid the doctor altogether.