Health Feature

Artificial fragrances are everywhere — and they can pose significant threats to your health. Here’s what you can do about it.

Here are nine ways a healthy sex life can support your wellness — and vice-versa.

Disillusioned by decades of disease-focused medicine, more doctors and patients are now shifting their focus to whole-person health. Ancient practices (yoga), alternative therapies (acupuncture), and commonsense strategies (nutritional counseling) are complementing conventional treatments, expanding our notions of healing — and leading the way to greater well-being and vitality.

Learn if mold is messing with your body — and how you can clear up the trouble.

How to read the telltale clues of health imbalances — and what you can do about them.

An increasing interest in all things real and natural is changing how we take care of ourselves ­— inside and out.

Forget what you’ve been told. Forget what you think you know. Start breaking the rules, and you might just start making some headway.

Too many chronic ailments have been pronounced “incurable.” Here’s how some functional-medicine practitioners are resolving such conditions — and transforming their patients’ lives.

Discover the simple tools progressive practitioners use to dig beyond diagnoses and treat root causes effectively.

A neurologist explains the power of your microbiome to heal and protect your brain.

Many women are drinking more than ever before. Are you one of them?

A little bit of sunlight can do a lot of good for your health.

Skimping on sleep can increase stress, undermine metabolism, suppress immunity, and set you up for a host of serious health problems.

Most of us take our eyesight for granted. But without proper care, nutrition, and protection, our eyes are vulnerable to damage and degeneration. Find out what you can do to keep your vision crisp, even as you age.

Mercury in fish and dental fillings. Lead in old paint. Cadmium and arsenic in industrial wastes. There’s a lot of talk about heavy-metal toxins these days. But how worried should you be, really? And what can you do to protect yourself?

Acne, eczema, psoriasis, and other skin conditions can be red flags pointing to more serious health concerns. Here are six of the most common — and how they might be speaking for the rest of your body.

An integrative psychiatrist offers a holistic approach for treating depressive illness.

A U.S. congressman explains how lack of access to real food is at the heart of our nation’s health problems — and what we can do about it.

Satisfy your appetite, retrain your fat cells, and lose weight for good.

Science has now confirmed that our thoughts and emotions have very real physiological consequences. What does this mean for medicine in the 21st century? Among other things, that many potions of choice might be produced by our minds and delivered without prescription drugs.

Knowing how your body absorbs nutrients can help you fuel your workouts – and your life.