How to Use Your Heart Rate Monitor to Maximize Fitness Results
What your heart monitor is trying to tell you.
How to Run an Ecosystem
My new hobby: aquaponics. This might just be the wave of the future — if we can figure out the finer points.
The Art of Condolence
When an acquaintance has lost a loved one, it can be difficult to know what to say or do. Here’s some guidance on offering sympathy with grace.
Good Medicine
Founding editor, Pilar Gerasimo, on what she learned at a week-long symposium presented by the Institute for Functional Medicine: “Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice.”
Fake MEDS, Real Relief
A Harvard report finds that sugar pills can greatly reduce migraine symptoms — even when the patient knows the pill is a fake.
PUMPING IRONY: A Geezer State of Mind
Is aging just a state of mind? Harvard psychology professor Ellen Langer argues you're only as old as you decide to be.
Out of the Darkness: Jenni Engebretson’s Success Story
How one woman overcame depression and addiction by rebuilding her mind, body, and spirit.
How to Avoid Drama
Are your relationships defined by tired role-play? Here’s how to break out of character.
Revolutionary Act 6: Redefine Your Role
You are not a “healthcare consumer.” You are a human being. You may be experiencing an illness or other health challenge right now, but remember that good health is your body’s natural state.
The Art of Recovery Q&A With Matt Dixon (Full Interview)
Matt Dixon, MSc, the author of The Well-Built Triathlete explains the essence of recovery.
Stress Buster: Sara Gottfried, MD
Feeling tired but wired? Balance your hormones and you can balance your life, says Sara Gottfried, MD.
Embracing Primal Living at PrimalCon
Experience Life’s fitness editor discovers that PrimalCon — an immersion into primal living in the modern world — involves more than just eating like a caveman.
PUMPING IRONY: Improve Your Posture, Improve Your Mood
Want to feel better, fast? Stand up straight.
Vegan Pumpkin-Spice Latte
This comforting cool-weather drink is a vegan, dairy-free, homemade alternative to the pumpkin-spice lattes that crop up at coffee shops each fall.
Supplement-Shopping Tips
Nutritional Supplements are not highly regulated, so both quality standards and formulations vary widely. In her New York Times bestseller, The Hormone Cure, Sara Gottfried, MD, offers these tips for supplement shopping:
