Pick Your Protein Powder
A popular nutritional supplement among fitness-minded people, protein powders come in many formulations. Here’s how to decide which ones are likely to suit you best.
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Choosing Healthy Beverages
What you drink is an often-forgotten — but critically important — piece of the nutrition puzzle. Learn which beverages to consider to meet your daily hydration needs and best support your health — and which ones you want to avoid.
PUMPING IRONY: The ‘Realm of the Sick’
Recent research bolsters my inclination to abandon conventional medicine’s “fear-based” approach for something more positive.
How to Upgrade Your Lunch
We gave three food-savvy nutritionists a challenge: Take three predictable lunches and turn them into healthy, energizing meals.
How to Cook Kale
Let’s hear it for one of nature’s most nutritious foods. Here are four great kale recipes.
Expert Answers: Gym Funk, Ramping Up Resting Metabolic Rate, and More
Here we wrangle leading experts to also address how tight IT bands may be causing your knee pain and exercising while detoxing.
The Ways of the Worried Well
These days, frankly, if you’re not at least a little concerned about your health, you’re probably not paying attention.
Refined Carbs Pose a Greater Risk than Saturated Fats for Heart Disease Risk
New research has weakened the perceived link between saturated fat and heart disease. Today, many experts, including Dr. Ronald M. Krauss, agree that refined carbs pose a much greater danger.
Upgrade Your Brain
Your brain changes over the course of your lifetime — for better or for worse. Here’s how to make the most of your gray matter.
The Smart Way to Weight Loss
Tired of trying and failing to lose weight? Don’t despair! Here’s the study guide you need to make the weight-loss honor roll once and for all.
Natural Ways to Treat and Prevent Headaches
From routine pains to killer migraines, here’s how to avoid common triggers and embrace smart, safe treatment options that offer real relief.
3 Simple Shifts to Eating Healthier
Looking for low-effort ways to eat healthier? These three small adjustments can make a surprisingly big difference in how you look and feel.
How to Cook Grass-Fed Beef
High in antioxidants, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, meat from pasture-fed cattle is a nourishing delicacy.
What We Don’t Know About Lyme
When a mysterious and debilitating illness overtook her and her family, the author struggled to find some answers. What she discovered about Lyme disease — and how little is actually known or agreed upon by the medical experts — is something everyone who goes outdoors should learn.
Do Synthetic Fragrances Cause Health Problems?
Three things to know about synthetic fragrances.
Healing Spa Retreats
More than just a vacation, these retreat centers offer restoration for mind, body, and soul.
Natural Strategies for Preventing Migraines
In light of the FDA’s approval of the first medical device for preventing migraine headaches, we offer an overview of natural prevention strategies — and explain why identifying the root cause is important.
Choose Safer Bedding and Avoid Harmful Chemicals For Healthier Sleep
Mattresses, pillows, and other bedding can contain chemicals that, while intended to make sleep safer, actually have the opposite effect.
Lyme Disease: How to Protect Yourself This Summer
The tick-borne illness, one of the fastest growing diseases in the United States, can be disabling if left untreated.
9 Benefits of Eating Fermented Foods
Fermented foods boost the good bacteria in our guts, which makes us healthier, happier, and more resilient.
TAKING NOTES: 20 Things Overheard at the Functional Medicine Conference
Experience Life senior editor Anjula Razdan shares her top 20 takeaways from the recent @FXMed Conference in Minneapolis.