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How Stress Affects Your Body
Understand how stress operates in your body — and how to reduce stress and build resilience.
Intuitive Eating for Weight Loss
As an alternative to doomed diet regimens, some weight-loss experts recommend tuning in to our own instincts and trying intuitive eating. But are our bodies’ cravings always a good guide?
13 Ways to Calm Your Mind and Boost Digestion
These expert techniques can help you turn off stress and turn on better digestion.
The Parasite Paradox: How Parasites May Benefit Health
Intestinal organisms can be a trigger for troubling health issues. But new research finds they can also help the body heal, especially from autoimmune diseases.
How to Detox Your Body Safely and Effectively
The craze for fasting and cleansing has produced some fantastic claims, and some decidedly mixed results. Here’s how to separate the hype from the reality — and safely enjoy the benefits of a cleaner, happier body.
How to Repair Your Thyroid
Millions of people suffer thyroid problems without ever knowing why. Here’s how to recognize and resolve thyroid dysfunction your doctor might miss.
The Care and Feeding of Your Mitochondria
They’re essential to energy, focus, vitality, and metabolism. And yet most of us have no idea how our mitochondria work. Here’s how to tune up your body’s quadrillions of “energy factories” and avoid mitochondrial dysfunction.
Fresh Start: A Spring Detox Guide
Say goodbye to internal grime and grunge. Your body is begging you to take out the trash! Here’s how to detox.
How to Find Your Pressure Points
Acupressure accesses the body’s subtle energy layers to let health and well-being flow.
A Closer Look at Eye Health
Experts answer 13 questions about vision and explain how to take better care of your eyes.
9 Missing Links to Weight Loss
These often-overlooked factors can help you achieve — and sustain — a healthy weight.
Heal Your Gut, Heal Your Joints
A leading functional-medicine physician explains her gut-healing protocol for overcoming arthritis.
How to Manage Chronic Pain — Naturally
An evolving understanding of pain is leading us to treatments that are safer — and more effective — than opioids.
The Way of the Healthy Deviant
A rulebreaker’s guide to becoming a healthy person in an unhealthy world.
How to Balance Your Hormones
A guide to understanding the chemical messengers that determine our well-being.
How Stress Affects Your Libido
Tension, exhaustion, and worry are the ultimate libido killers. A renowned sex educator offers tips on how to restore intimacy.
6 Keys to a Happy and Healthy Life
A functional-medicine pioneer explains how to make small choices that build lasting well-being.
13 Natural Remedies for Common Ailments
These easy home treatments can relieve headaches, colds, and other common health complaints.
How Nature Boosts Your Health
Digging in the garden, walking by a river, and enjoying some sun during lunch do more than just lift your spirits — they’re good for your physical health, too.
The Seven-Systems Detox
A functional-medicine nutritionist shares how her Seven Systems approach effectively detoxes the mind as well as the body.
Migraine Prevention: How to Manage and Reduce Migraine Symptoms
New research offers promising treatments for these extreme headaches.