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How to Create a Natural Home Medicine Cabinet
You stock your kitchen’s pantry shelves with wholesome, all-natural goods. Why not the shelves of your bathroom, too?
The Health Benefits of Drinking Water
Proper hydration is key to good health, but why? And what’s the best way to get what our bodies really need? Our experts debunk a few myths.
9 Food Synergies to Maximize Your Nutritional Intake
From green tea and lemons to red wine and fish, some foods deliver even more nutritional punch when paired. Here’s how to take advantage of nature’s most powerful food synergies.
4 Immunity Boosting Recipes from Rebecca Katz
Feed your immune system well, and watch your vitality soar.
How to Ease Flu Anxiety
Feeling panicky about pandemics? Here’s how to ease your worry while taking practical steps to stay safe.
4 Signs You Need to Take a Fitness Break
You’re willing to push yourself, even when it hurts. You know how to tough it out, even when you’re tired. But do you know when to back off — and why? Here’s what all fitness buffs need to know about giving their bodies a break.
Why Humor is Key to Creativity
Enjoying humor and engaging in laughter have serious—and positive—consequences for our health, happiness and chances for success. Here’s the lowdown on laughter and how you can trigger its practical benefits in your own life.
Functional Wellness, Part 6: Energy, Mitochondria and Toxicity
Mighty mitochondria — those little factories inside our cells that generate energy — play a central role in our metabolism, our vitality and our well-being. Find out how to rev your cellular engines, rid them of the gunk and damage that slows them down, and start feeling your healthy best.
Fix-It Foods
Whether flushing toxins, preventing inflammation or boosting your immune system, certain foods prove particularly effective in repairing the body. Here’s a primer on some of the best edible healers around.
Sleep Deficit: The Hidden Debt That’s Hurting Us All
Next time you’re thinking of pulling an all-nighter to beat some looming deadline, consider this: Too little sleep can lead to increased stress levels, compromised metabolism, a suppressed immune system and a host of other health problems.
Functional Wellness, Part 3: Digestive Health
A well-functioning digestive system is the cornerstone of good health. Find out how the gut works, what makes it vulnerable — and what you can do to keep your own digestive tract in tiptop shape.
Functional Wellness, Part 2: Hormones and Inflammation
Hormonal imbalances can lead to a host of serious health problems, including inflammation, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, cancer, dementia and more. Here’s how to get your body back in balance.
What Is a Phytochemical?
Phytochemicals — plant-based micronutrients that contain protective, disease-preventing compounds — might just be the best-kept secret in nutrition.
Vital Nourishment: 2 Recipes for Cancer Survivors from Rebecca Katz
Looking to enhance your vitality – or to rebuild it after a health crisis? Author and cancer survivor Rebecca Katz sees great-tasting whole foods as a natural and delicious place to begin.
The New View of Health
Once perceived as the domain of medical experts tasked with keeping our symptoms at bay, the realm of personal healthcare has expanded. It now includes broader definitions, more integrated, preventive approaches — and, perhaps most important, us.
Stand Up for Your Cells
We’ve known for a long time that spending too much time and energy at work can cost us. We’ve all seen hardworking friends disappear off the social radar while in hot pursuit of career success, and many of us have risked becoming strangers to our own families as the result of work demands that made no space for weekends and evenings at home.