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Growth Hormone: The Ultimate Guide
Many lifestyle factors affect this important hormone — and there’s a lot you can do to optimize it in your own body.
The Ultimate Guide to Healthy Blood Sugar
Many of us are at risk of blood-sugar imbalance — whether you’re aware of it or not. Here's everything to know about blood sugar, including the habits you can implement to control it.
A Women’s Guide: 5 Practical Ways to Balance Hormones
An imbalance in hormones can be to blame for weight gain and other unwanted symptoms — and learning to balance them is often people's secret to success.
The Health Benefits and Risks of Drinking Alcohol
Should alcohol be part of your healthy lifestyle, or could it be doing you more damage than good? Learn the health benefits and risks.
5 Markers for a Healthy Immune System
Your immune system and underlying health have never been more important than they are now — but do you know which health markers are most critical to keep healthy?
Low Testosterone: Causes, Symptoms, and Solutions
Low testosterone is more common than people realize — in both men and women. Here's what you need to know, so you know what to do.
What You Need to Know About Your Thyroid
Meet your thyroid, a delicate little gland located at the front of your throat. It controls how every cell in your body turns food and oxygen into energy — and that can mean big trouble if your thyroid goes on the fritz.
Low Thyroid or Hypothyroidism: Causes, Symptoms and Solutions
When the thyroid gland isn’t functioning optimally, it can cause weight gain, digestive issues, hair loss and more. Find out how to tell if you may have thyroid issues.
Fending Off Adrenal Fatigue
Are you exhausted for days following your workouts? Or are you just too tired to make it to the gym? If so, you may be suffering from adrenal fatigue.
The Truth About Postpartum Hormones and Healing: A Q&A With Aviva Romm, MD
An integrative-medicine doc, who is also a midwife, shares the ins and outs of postpartum hormones — plus tips to support yourself.
How to Reverse Female Hair Loss
Here are 11 reasons you might be losing hair — and what you can do about it.
Are Sperm Counts Declining?
Yes, says our expert, but here's what you can do to protect your sperm health.
What Your Period Is Trying to Tell You
Here are nine things to know about your monthly cycle.
Repair Your Thyroid
Millions of people suffer thyroid problems without ever knowing why. Here’s how to recognize and resolve thyroid dysfunction your doctor might miss.
What No One Tells You About Becoming a Mother: A Q&A With Alexandra Sacks, MD
The reproductive psychiatrist who is popularizing the term “matrescence” shares how we can have a more honest conversation about the emotional challenges of motherhood.
The Problem With Testosterone Testing
Here are three things to know before you get your testosterone levels checked.
10 Tips to Help Your Body Rest and Repair
Functional-medicine doc Aviva Romm’s replenish-repair kit helps bring your hormones into balance.
How Your Hormones Affect Weight Loss
In his new book, The Setpoint Diet, New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Bailor talks about how to balance your hormones and lose weight naturally.
Having Trouble Losing Weight? It Might Be Your Thyroid
Many thyroid conditions go undiagnosed, but a properly functioning thyroid is key to maintaining a healthy weight.
How Childhood Adversity Creates Toxic Stress
Pioneering pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris is transforming how public-health advocates respond to the toxic stress created by childhood adversity. Here, she shares her prescription for healing.
9 Missing Links to Weight Loss
These often-overlooked factors can help you achieve — and sustain — a healthy weight.