Immunity

Intrepid staffer Heidi Wachter completes her first detox diet, and shares the ups, downs and life-altering lessons.

Researchers show that eating processed junk food regularly is the highest cause of tissue inflammation.

Your guide to making the most of your body’s beneficial bugs — for gut health, immunity, metabolism and more.

New science shows that sleep is essential to our mental and physical health — and most of us aren’t getting enough.

Direct-to-consumer lab testing gives us a chance to see our biochemical realities more clearly — sometimes with surprising results.

Dr. Frank Lipman on why finding your body’s natural sleep cycle and circadian rhythms is the key to strength, vitality and wellness.

How correcting a serious vitamin-D deficiency helped one woman transform her life.

Many health professionals recommend seasonal flu vaccines as a preventive measure. But do they actually work, and are they safe? Here’s what you need to know about influenza vaccines to decide for yourself.

For decades, we’ve been a culture obsessed with avoiding germs, but is dirt actually good for our immune system?

The foods you eat can have a major effect on your brain’s health.

A healthy libido is about more than desire. It’s about experiencing pleasure that’s essential to our minds, bodies and spirits. And in the face of stress, it often goes into hiding. Here, expert Marcelle Pick offers tips on how to rediscover your desire.

Recent studies show that antibacterial soap might be harmful to your health.

Both Paleo and vegan diets have become popular in the last few years. But what are their pros and cons, and how might they affect your health? We assembled a roundtable of experts to make sense of the debate.

Read the complete email interviews from healthy-eating experts Kris Carr, Nora Gedgaudas and Mark Hyman, MD.

Discover natural solutions and treatments for childhood eczema.

Some call it an invisible epidemic. When Candida albicans, a family of yeastlike fungi that lives in our digestive tracts, multiplies out of control, it causes mysterious symptoms and serious health woes for women, men and children. Is it breeding in you?

Managing your weight isn’t just about the number of calories you eat. It’s also — and perhaps primarily — about the quality and character of those calories. Here’s why.

The incidence of autism is growing at an alarming rate. Experts are struggling to discover why. Slowly, a strange and complex picture is coming together. It suggests that autism’s mysterious mechanisms could ultimately reveal health truths relevant to us all.

Studies show that positive immune benefits can last up to a month after a visit to the woods.

Find out why some internal bacteria are our friends – and why providing a happy, well-balance home for them is essential to our vitality and well-being.