Functional/Integrative Medicine
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This is Your Vagus Nerve on Lockdown
Here’s how a lack of social interaction and fear of COVID contagion affects your vagus nerve.
Why the Vagus Nerve Matters to Your Health
The vagus nerve, also known as the gut–brain axis, plays a critical role in stress regulation and overall health. Learn how you can take care of yours.
How EMDR Helps to Treat Trauma
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a trauma treatment that often produces results when nothing else will. But what is it, and how does it work?
Why Autoimmune Diseases Are on the Rise — Especially After COVID
Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune conditions are on the rise, partly because of the prevalence of long COVID. Discover what can trigger autoimmunity and how a functional-medicine approach can help.
A Closer Look at Health Care
Our health-care industry can be confusing and difficult to navigate — and it presents challenges when the lifestyle changes that can help manage or prevent illnesses aren’t considered. Marty Makary, MPH, offers a transparent look at the industry and underscores why lifestyle changes are such important factors in the quality of our health.
Can Massage Soothe Pain?
Massage can lower cortisol levels and enhance dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, all of which helps with pain relief.
NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH: How Using Your Senses Can Improve Your Mental Health
Smell, touch, and sound can help cultivate resilience. Here’s how.
Can Massage Help Ease Anxiety and Depression?
Stimulating the peripheral nerves with massage can switch the nervous system into rest-and-relaxation mode.
11 Massage Modalities
From acupressure to myofascial release to trigger-point therapy, here are various forms of massage — and what they are good for.
Can Massage Help Relieve Headaches?
Shiatsu-style massage and craniosacral therapy can help with chronic headaches.
How Massage and Healing Touch Benefit Overall Health
Massage can help with pain relief, digestion, and even immunity.
The Lifestyle Guide to Supporting Your Immune System
Understand what factors outside of nutrition and exercise influence the health of your immune system.
Thyroid Health: How to Identify Imbalances + Tips for Support
Thyroid issues are prevalent: An estimated one in seven people are affected, with even more suffering from an imbalance — and many not even aware that their thyroid is behind their symptoms. Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT, shares the signals our thyroid might be sending us, the tests to ask for, and the lifestyle habits we can implement in our daily lives to nourish and support our thyroids.
What Is Leaky Gut?
We answer some of your most common questions about leaky gut syndrome.
Why Do Some Women Gain Weight on the Keto Diet?
In her new book, Women, Food, and Hormones, Sara Gottfried, MD, discusses the keto paradox and why a traditional keto diet tends to work better in men than in women.
Building Mental Health Through Nutrition
Of all the calories we eat each day, 20 percent are used by our brains — so it’s no wonder there’s such a strong connection between our nutritional habits and mental-health status. Drew Ramsey, MD, psychiatrist, author, and mental-health advocate, joins us to explain this relationship and teach us about the food choices that best support our brains and mental well-being.
The Nature Cure
Learn how going outdoors can help ease depression and hypertension and improve resiliency and immunity.
How to Use Tapping
This holistic-healing technique uses the body’s acupressure points to lower stress and reset your mind.
What Is a Healthy Menstrual Cycle?
The menstrual cycle holds many clues to a woman’s overall health. Here’s how to identify what’s normal for you — and when to seek help.
The Rise of Animal Assisted Healthcare
“Biotherapy” involves using animals such as dogs, horses, and even worms to help healing.
The Magazine They Said Would Never Fly
Our founding editor reflects on 20 years of Experience Life.