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Revolutionary Act 8: Minimize Symptom Suppression
Make whole-person vitality, well-being and resilience your goal. Partner with healthcare pros who understand and support your desire to be fully healthy with a minimum of medical interventions.
How to Harness the Healing Power of Your Mind
Science has now confirmed that our thoughts and emotions have very real physiological consequences. What does this mean for medicine in the 21st century? Among other things, that many potions of choice might be produced by our minds and delivered without prescription drugs.
Obesity: The “Disease” Factor
A 2014 study suggests that the way we talk about and frame weight issues can have a significant impact on both the attitude and behavior of overweight individuals.
12 Game-Changing Ideas About Health
12 big ideas that are shifting the way we think about health.
Revolutionary Act 7: Practice Medicine Without a License
Research your own conditions and treatment alternatives, ask questions, and seek second opinions with impunity. Leverage the expertise of trained pros, but don’t allow it to eclipse your own informed instincts about what’s best for you.
7 Ways to Protect Your Mitochondria
Caring for your mitochondria is one of the best ways to take care of your health — and enjoy better energy, metabolism, and mental focus in the process. Discover how you can be nice to your mighty mitochondria.
In Depth With Sara Gottfried, MD (Video)
The best-selling author of The Hormone Cure shares more insights on the importance of balancing our hormones and the profound effect they can have on our overall health and well-being.
Fake MEDS, Real Relief
A recent Harvard report finds that sugar pills can greatly reduce migraine symptoms — even when the patient knows the pill is a fake.
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.
Behind the Scenes With Sara Gottfried, MD (Video)
Integrative- and functional-medicine pioneer Sara Gottfried, MD, shares her personal struggle with imbalanced hormones, and how what she learned from her own treatment protocol has informed more than a decades-worth of work helping women, as well as her best-selling book The Hormone Cure.
Revolutionary Act 5: Repossess Your Health
Reclaim responsibility for your well-being; own your daily choices; minimize your reliance on the broken sick-care system.
Connecting ADHD and Nutrition
For kids with focus and behavior challenges, nutritional shifts may work as well as, or better than, medication.
Ibuprofen & Your Body: 10 Things to Know
NSAIDS — nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin — can cause more pain than they relieve.
Congress Considers Legislation to Ban BPA in Storage Containers
The new bill would ban the use of BPA in food and beverage containers.
Revolutionary Act 3: Rage Against the Machine
Use your healthy frustration about unhealthy status quos to spark creativity and determination.
Lyme Disease: How to Protect Yourself This Summer
The tick-borne illness, one of the fastest growing diseases in the United States, can be disabling if left untreated.
Why Strength Training Is Essential
Strength training isn’t just for building muscle anymore: It’s an all-in-one functional-fitness strategy.
What You Need to Know About Ibuprofen
How NSAIDS — nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin — can cause more pain than they relieve.
Healing Spaces: How Our Surroundings Affect Health and Well-Being
Can the spaces in which we live, work, and recover from illness have an impact on healing and well-being? Integrative-medicine doctor Esther Sternberg says yes.
Behind the Scenes With Pilar Gerasimo (Video)
Our founding editor shares her thoughts on health and personal growth in our exclusive video.
Revolutionary Act 1: Defy Convention
Do the healthy thing, even when it’s challenging, inconvenient, or considered weird. Take pride in that.