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The Health Benefits of Cold Conditioning
Cold exposure and conditioning, including taking ice baths, may offer a range of health benefits, from mood stabilization to metabolic improvements.
How Noise Affects Your Health — and What to Do About It
Excess noise isn’t just irritating — it can undermine your health. Learn why it’s important to calm the clamor with these strategies.
The Future of Health
Discover some of the most promising developments in whole-person health.
Why Being Around Water Is So Good for Our Psyches
A marine biologist on why water calms our brains.
What Your Mouth Is Trying to Tell You
Oral health is intricately connected to the rest of the body. Here’s why it matters — and how to read those niggling mouth symptoms.
How to Stop Insomnia
Explore the various root causes of insomnia and get expert-sourced treatments for overcoming it.
How to Treat Long-Haul COVID
COVID-19 is leaving many with a disturbing array of chronic symptoms. These functional-medicine strategies can help.
6 Ways to Boost Your Immune System
A strong immune system is essential for health — in the face of a pandemic or otherwise. Learn how to build all-around resilience.
Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Care
Why the ancient healing art of Ayurveda is winning modern fans.
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.
Reset Your Stress Response
Being on high alert for too long can put you into adrenal overdrive. Learn how to shift from fight-or-flight mode into calmer states that help your body recover.
8 Hidden Toxins Lurking in Your Cleaning Products
We assume they are safe. But in fact, many popular household cleaners are dangerously toxic. Learn about the eight scariest substances hiding under your kitchen sink, and how to replace them with safer, more natural options that really work.
The Best Defense: Boost Your Immune System
Your immune system works to keep you healthy 24 hours a day. Here’s how to help it operate at peak efficiency.
Protein Power: What You Need to Know
You need protein to build muscle, manage your metabolism, and support tissue repair. But how much? What kind? And can you get too much? We answer your top 12 questions about protein.
Beyond BMI: Why True Health Is About More Than What You Weigh
How much you weigh gets a lot of attention despite being one of the least telling measures of health.
6 Tips for Selecting Safe Supplements
There are so many fitness supplements to choose from. Here are six tips to make sure you’re picking the right one for you.
Should You Test Your Bone Density?
A bone-density test is the gold standard for diagnosing osteoporosis — and can help you assess your risk of fracture.
How to Strengthen Your Bones
We often forget about our skeletons, but they are essential to multiple aspects of our health.
Can EMDR Change Your Brain?
Why eye movement desensitization and reprocessing — or EMDR — may help treat trauma.
The Food-Sleep Connection
When it comes to metabolic health, sleep plays an unexpectedly powerful role. At the same time, our food choices also have a big impact on how we sleep — or don’t.
5 Strategies for Sustaining Your Weight Loss Journey
Losing weight is an impressive achievement, but the journey doesn’t end there. Here’s how to maintain your weight loss for good.