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A Look at the Stress Reaction and Heart Health Lab Panel
What blood markers are tested and why knowing them can positively impact your health plan and trajectory.
What Are the Risk Factors and Triggers for Functional Neurological Disorders?
It turns out there are a variety of different triggers, say experts.
How to Relieve a Stiff Neck
Simple strategies for addressing and preventing discomfort in your neck.
PUMPING IRONY: A Parley With Parkinson’s
While I only occasionally wonder whether Parkinson’s awaits me somewhere down the road, recent research provides some calming evidence that lifestyle changes may help keep the disease at bay.
What Is a Functional Neurological Disorder?
Hybrid disorders of the brain, mind, and body once confounded physicians and researchers. Today experts are beginning to uncover the conditions’ complexities — and how to treat them.
Can Chronic Inflammation in the Body Cause Mental Illness?
Researchers have begun exploring the link between chronic inflammation and psychiatric disorders.
PUMPING IRONY: This Is Your Brain on Junk Food
As Big Pharma’s latest Alzheimer’s drug faces renewed skepticism, a new study suggests that avoiding ultraprocessed food may be a more promising approach to maintaining healthy cognitive function as we age.
13 Ways to Combat the Winter Blues at Work
Learn why we experience a lull in the winter months and how we can set ourselves up for success.
What Is a Behavioral Addiction?
Shopping, gambling, social-media use, and sex are all behaviors that are potentially addictive. Learn how they happen and what defines this type of addiction.
6 Strategies to Cope With Climate-Change Anxiety
Here’s how to move beyond fear, overwhelm, and anger — and respond with your emotional well-being intact.
How Terry Wahls, MD, Beat Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Visionary physician Terry Wahls, MD, beat MS and upset the conventional medical world with a simple, back-to-basics message.
Is Cracking Your Neck Bad for You?
What happens when you crack your own neck and the benefits of leaving neck adjustments to professionals.
5 Tips to Stay Sober
Quitting alcohol may not be easy, but it doesn’t have to be hard forever.
What Is Social Anxiety Disorder?
Mingling with unfamiliar people and eating in front of others are just two things that can cause debilitating symptoms for people with social anxiety disorder.
Game On!: 3 Ways Games Boost Your Health
Card and dice games have come to Life Time — and an ARORA co-founder shares three reasons getting dealt in is good for your health and well-being.
What Are the Risks of Taking an Aspirin Every Day?
For heart-healthy people over the age of 60, taking a daily aspirin has “no net benefit,” according to a recent JAMA report by the 2022 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
PUMPING IRONY: Zapped!
Can we cure dementia by zapping our brains with electrical currents? Some enterprising researchers would certainly like us to think so.
10 Rules for Aging Well
Every second of every day, all of us are aging, and yet we often wait to address — or altogether avoid — age-related concerns about our health until we reach a certain point in our years or our capabilities begin to diminish. Frank Lipman, MD, shares 10 essential factors he’s outlined for aging well, emphasizing that it’s never too late — or too early — to start embracing them, and that it’s not as difficult as you might think.
Does Exercising Help With Anxiety?
Yes, according to a recent study — and the more intense the exercise, the more it may help.
Do You Need a Heart-Rate Monitor?
Are these devices really worth it? A Life Time trainer shares the influence they can have on your training regimen and outcomes.
Kicking the Sugar Habit — Together
One Life Time team member and her parents enrolled in the Life Time Sugar Fix program together to eliminate the ingredient from their diets. This was their experience.