Health Feature

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How Stress Affects Your Body

Understand how stress operates in your body — and how to reduce stress and build resilience.

By Jon Spayde

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?

By Pamela Weintraub

Metabolism/Weight Loss Mindful Eating

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13 Ways to Calm Your Mind and Boost Digestion

These expert techniques can help you turn off stress and turn on better digestion.

By Karen Olson

Mindful Eating Nutrition Tips

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.

By Pamela Weintraub

Autoimmunity Functional/Integrative Medicine

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.

By Courtney Helgoe

Detox Metabolism/Weight Loss

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.

By Jill Grunewald

Hormones Immunity

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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.

By Pamela Weintraub

Metabolism/Weight Loss

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.

By Jane Alexander

Detox Wellness

How to Find Your Pressure Points

Acupressure accesses the body’s subtle energy layers to let health and well-being flow.

By Catherine Guthrie

Functional/Integrative Medicine Headaches & Migraines

A Closer Look at Eye Health

Experts answer 13 questions about vision and explain how to take better care of your eyes.

By Mo Perry

General Health

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9 Missing Links to Weight Loss

These often-overlooked factors can help you achieve — and sustain — a healthy weight.

By Laine Bergeson

Hormones Metabolism/Weight Loss

Heal Your Gut, Heal Your Joints

A leading functional-medicine physician explains her gut-healing protocol for overcoming arthritis.

By Susan Blum

Arthritis & Joint Health Healthy Aging

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How to Manage Chronic Pain — Naturally

An evolving understanding of pain is leading us to treatments that are safer — and more effective — than opioids.

By Mo Perry

Functional/Integrative Medicine Pain Relief

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The Way of the Healthy Deviant

A rulebreaker's guide to becoming a healthy person in an unhealthy world.

By Pilar Gerasimo

Food Culture

How to Balance Your Hormones

A guide to understanding the chemical messengers that determine our well-being.

By Laine Bergeson, FMCHC

Hormones Men's Health

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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.

By Emily Nagoski

Dating/Marriage Sexual Health

6 Keys to a Happy and Healthy Life

A functional-medicine pioneer explains how to make small choices that build lasting well-being.

By Frank Lipman, MD

Active Aging Happiness/Joy

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13 Natural Remedies for Common Ailments

These easy home treatments can relieve headaches, colds, and other common health complaints.

By Christine Schrum

Food Culture Functional/Integrative Medicine

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.

By Stephanie Granada

Functional/Integrative Medicine Nature