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Sleep: Your Guide to a Better Brain and Body
Sleep debt can cause catastrophic effects on your body and mind. Here’s what happens when when you miss out on sleep — plus how to get more of it.
5 Ways Your Body Tells You It’s Toxic
Our bodies are pretty good at letting us know know when something is off. See if one of these signs might be indicating that it’s time to detox.
3 Key Factors for Optimal Health
Tips for improving your nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle habits in times of challenge.
8 Yoga Poses to Help You Unwind
Find calm with these eight relaxing bedtime — or anytime — moves.
Why Sleep and Stress Management Are Non-Negotiables
While many aspects of our health are interconnected, two in particular play a major role in how we feel and function: sleep and stress. In this episode, integrative psychiatrist Henry Emmons, MD shares why they’re essential and offers tips for managing both.
Goals for a Healthier You
Get inspired by these step-by-step suggestions for making positive changes to your health and well-being.
Can a Weighted Blanket Help My Insomnia?
If anxiety is at the root of your insomnia, says our expert, a weighted blanket may help.
How Healthy-Living Experts Do Evening Routines
Find ways to wind down from the day and optimize your nights in Part Three of our three-part series.
Bookends
The first and last moments of your day can steady or destabilize everything that comes in between. Are your mornings and nights propping you up, or tipping you over?
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.
How Insomnia Leads to Weight Gain
Chronic stress that keeps you up at night can increase the production of fat cells.
9 Missing Links to Weight Loss
These often-overlooked factors can help you achieve — and sustain — a healthy weight.
How to Treat the Common Cold
Here are a few tips to nudge a cold out the door.
5 Tips to Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Establish better bedtime habits with these simple strategies.
Why Do I Feel Depressed and Fatigued When I Sleep Late?
It all depends on which stage of sleep you wake up in, says a sleep expert.
Better Sleep, Better Marriage?
How much you sleep could influence marital arguments, a recent study says.
Do You Have a Circadian Rhythm More Suited to Mars?
A study finds a gene for being a late sleeper.
How to Use Lavender Oil
This popular essential oil can help boost your health and happiness.
Untangling Alzheimer’s
Breakthroughs in understanding dementia are leading to new healthcare approaches. Nutrition, lifestyle, and sleep may be the keys to prevention.
How to Measure Your Sleep Satisfaction
Calculate your sleep-related health risks by considering these six factors.