Health

Value your body for what it can do, not for how it looks, says our fitness editor.

Halotherapy has been used for centuries around the world. Its healing benefits have sparked a new interest in salt pools, flotation tanks, and caves in the United States.

A functional-medicine nutritionist shares how her Seven Systems approach effectively detoxes the mind as well as the body.

New research offers promising treatments for these extreme headaches.

Rangan Chatterjee, MBChB, is on a mission to improve individual well-being and transform the doctor–patient relationship with a simple message: Good health begins at home.

These ten tips can help prevent — or even reverse — nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Here are four ways digital devices undermine your health and wellbeing.

Roxane Gay’s bold account of her weight issues offers insight into the connections between trauma, shame, and body image.

Resist the call of the couch! For our basic well-being, we need to get moving.

Good gut health requires more than consuming enough probiotics.

You’d like your loved ones to be happy and supportive about your positive life transformations. But what if they’re not?

When the source of your pain escapes you — and your doctor — it could be psychogenic.

A muscle strain, joint sprain or contusion suffered just before a competition could put you on the shelf. Here are some quick-fix options.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease affects up to a third of Americans, taking a toll on our collective health. Nutrition and lifestyle changes can turn it around.

Learn how to regain control of your devices so they don’t control you.

Whether you spend your days doing heavy squats, cycling long distances, or sitting at a desk, chances are your hips could use some extra attention.