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PUMPING IRONY: A “Perfect” Prescription for Growing Old
Memories of a former colleague — and recent research — remind me that an upbeat view of aging may pay healthy dividends well into our later years.
Building Mental Resilience: 6 Mind-Body Grounding Exercises
Learn how to reduce your body’s stress response in Part One of this three-part series.
NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH: How Heart-Rate Variability Affects Your Stress Response
Discover how to create heart-rate coherence for a greater sense of calm.
7 Steps to Improve Your Adrenal Function
Plus, how a Life Time dietitian overcame her own adrenal fatigue.
5 Signs You’re More Stressed Than You Think
Signals not to be ignored that show your stress might be negatively affecting you in deeper ways than you realize.
How to Maximize Your Metabolism
With Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT
Metabolism is more complex than simply being “fast” or “slow” or controlled by exercise. There are many things we can do in our daily lives to optimize it. Samantha McKinney, RD, CPT, shares how to build the foundation for a healthy metabolism, as well as ways to dig deeper if you’re not seeing results or feeling your best.
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Understanding Belly Fat
Plus, six lifestyle steps to help aid you in losing it.
WELCOME TO WELLNESS: Resmaa Menakem, MSW, SEP, LICSW
How this therapist, trauma specialist, and author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Path to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies is bringing wellness — and healing — to marginalized communities.
Eve Lewis Prieto on How to Meditate
The director of the popular mindfulness app Headspace offers five tips on how to meditate.
6 Breathing Techniques
Ancient wisdom and recent research show that how we breathe can enhance our athletic performance and overall well-being. Try these six breathing exercises.
The 4 Ms of Health
Looking to make lasting health changes? Take these four factors into account for meaningful, sustainable progress.
How to Stop Doomscrolling
We all do it, especially in these trying times. Here are four tips to stop doomscrolling — and improve your mental health.
How to Break Free From Fear
A shamanic healer explains how fear drains our vitality — and how we can reclaim more energy.
How to Ramp Up Your Energy
Is your body experiencing an energy shortage? Learn how your system creates and uses energy and you'll have a better shot at ramping up production to meet demand.
How to Make Bath Salts
This simple and fragrant bath salts recipe can be modified endlessly to meet your mood.
7 Hidden Triggers of the Sympathetic Stress Response
Here are a few surprising ways we can be triggered without even knowing it.
How Percussive Therapy Can Benefit Your Health
Muscles tight or sore? Stressed? Having trouble sleeping? These devices have risen in popularity as an at-home tool to help provide relief for a variety of symptoms and grievances.
4 Beginner Ways to Use Your Percussive Device
Do you have or are you thinking about getting a Hyperice or other percussive therapy device? Here are four ways we suggest using it.
The Stress Alarm
Our biological stress response operates the same whether threats are real or perceived. Here's how your system reacts.
5 Weight-Loss Tips That Have Nothing to Do With Food
A Life Time dietitian and trainer shares the five non-food habits that help drive her clients with a weight-loss goal to success.