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Light Rhythms: How Light Affects Your Health
How and when we are exposed to light can affect our bodies in surprising ways. Here’s what you need to know about your body’s responses to cycles of light and dark.
What We Don’t Know About Lyme
When a mysterious and debilitating illness overtook her and her family, the author struggled to find some answers. What she discovered about Lyme disease — and how little is actually known or agreed upon by the medical experts — is something everyone who goes outdoors should learn.
Cholesterol Reconsidered
Research disputes cholesterol’s reputation as the primary culprit behind heart disease. Here’s the real scoop on its role in the body, the right ways to bring it down naturally, and why cholesterol-lowering drugs may not be the cure-all we’ve been led to believe.
How to Improve Ankle Mobility
Immobile ankles can cause shin splints, knee injuries and even lower-back pain. Here’s how to improve ankle mobility and prevent an unwanted kinetic shock wave.
How Empowered Health Seekers Are Redefining Healthcare
Is healthcare something delivered by a provider when you get sick — or something you do for yourself to stay vital, healthy and well? A growing number of health seekers say “both.” Together, they’re forging an empowered new path through America’s broken medical system.
How to Exercise When You Have Chronic Pain
If you suffer from chronic pain, working out may be the last thing you feel like doing. But exercise can make you feel better – now, and over the long term.
3 Exercises to Relieve Grip Pain from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
It’s not just desk jockeys who suffer from repetitive-strain injuries. They can strike even superfit athletes. Here’s how to prevent and treat them.
The Smart Way to Weight Loss
Tired of trying and failing to lose weight? Don’t despair! Here’s the study guide you need to make the weight-loss honor roll once and for all.
Managing Your Personal Energy
All the time in the world won’t help you achieve your goals if you’re too run down to pursue them. Here’s how to manage your energy – and your sanity.
3 Exercises for an Immobile Thoracic Spine
Immobility in your thoracic spine can send pain into your shoulders, neck or lower back. Here’s how to correct the problem.
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.
Six Packs and Sex Lives
Thoughts on Experience Life and the quirks that make it appealing to more than 3 million readers. No gimmicks, no hype, no kidding.
In Praise of Plenty: The Problem With Deprivation-Based Diets
When you choose the right foods, you can eat abundantly – and still achieve a healthy weight.
How to Cope With Time Anxiety
How to identify and remedy the stress caused by chronic overscheduling and time poverty.
A Real Pleasure
When it comes to creating the conditions for optimal health, we know that managing stress is important. But it turns out that dealing with our anxieties and negative emotional reactions is only half the battle. Discover why an ample supply of enjoyable, positive experiences is equally essential to your well-being — and how you can go about giving life’s pleasures the healthy emphasis they deserve.
The Wanting Mind
Whether we’re yearning for another cup of coffee or a better job, we spend a lot of time and energy just wanting. Here’s how to observe – and calm – the endless tide of want that can catch us in its undertow.
Tips to Cultivate Body Positivity
Turn your body loathing into body loving.
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.
Functional Wellness, Part 5: The Body-Mind Connection
Discover the truth about how your mind affects your body, how your body affects your brain, and what you can do to keep the whole brilliant system working to your advantage.
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.
How to Deal With Constant Complainers
How to cope with the stress of being subjected to the negativity of a chronic complainer.