Winter Wellness
As winter settles in, you may find yourself feeling rundown, lacking motivation with the shorter days, combating itchy and dry skin, and more. Explore these articles from Experience Life and Life Time’s experts, authors, and staff to help you navigate these cold, dark months.
Body Care
10 Tips to Keep Your Skin and Hair Healthy This Winter
Nourishing your hair and skin is a year-round commitment. Follow these tips to winterize your routine and protect them from the season’s elements.
How to Dry Brush for Healthy, Glowing Skin
Discover the dos and don’ts of dry brushing for skin health, plus get tips for doing it at home.
How to Gua Sha
This ancient massage practice can support your body’s circulation and natural ability to heal.
DIY Facial Lymphatic Massage
This easy self-care technique can help clear your head of congestion and sinus pressure.
Build Your Own Winter Retreat
Senior editor Courtney Helgoe shares a few quick ways to take a retreat at home.
How to Keep Winter Skin Well-Hydrated
Expert tips for maintaining moisture in your body’s largest organ — and why it’s vital for general and skin health.
Mental Health
Overcoming Winter Blahs
Ever-earlier sunsets and longer nights signal that winter is coming. Learn how to adjust your mindset to make the best of it.
6 Tips to Beat the Winter Blues
Seasonal affective disorder can make a stressful time of year even harder. Here’s how to offset the symptoms of SAD.
Meditations for Your Moods
Feeling stressed? Angry? Nervous? Learn how to select a meditation that can help relieve various emotional states.
7 Ways to Experience More Joy
Two longtime meditation practitioners share their principles for finding more joy in your daily life.
The 5 Best Ways to Build Resiliency
Why do some people bounce back from adversity and misfortune? Why do others fall apart? Find out which character strengths make all the difference — and how you can develop them yourself.
How to Take a Mental-Health Day
Taking time off can enhance workplace productivity and personal well-being. Try these four tips to make the most of your day off.
Fitness
How to Stay Fit in Winter
Follow Mother Nature’s rhythms to banish workout boredom, stave off injury, and build your fitness.
Expert Answers: Winter Workout Clothes
Practical advice on how to dress for your next chilly-weather workout.
4 Cold-Weather Activities to Boost Fitness
Complement your favorite indoor workout routines with these cold-weather pursuits.
Immunity
6 Supplements to Boost Your Immune System
Many Americans are deficient in micronutrients, which can drag down immunity. These six supplements can help you rebuild your immune system.
7 Immune-Boosting Foods
Looking to build your immune system? Start by eating immunity-boosting foods like turmeric, sauerkraut, and medicinal mushrooms.
3 Immune-Supportive Recipes
Enjoy these nutritious meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Boost Your Immune System: Tips for Nutrition, Supplements, and More
Get advice from Tom Nikkola, vice president of nutrition and virtual training at Life Time, about the eating and lifestyle choices that can compromise immunity, as well as how we can optimize our nutrition to help build this system. Plus, he shares some bonus tips for exercise and sleep.
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5 Everyday Habits to Build Your Immunity
A Life Time nutritionist shares the five keys to boosting your immune health.
How to Build Your Immune System
Your body's rapid-response defenses protect you from millions of would-be invaders daily. Here's how you can help your immune system do its job.
Nutrition and Cooking
5 Cozy Fall Soup Recipes
Make easy, comforting, delicious meals with a few of our favorite soup recipes, including pear-parsnip soup and lentil soup with delicata squash.
6 DIY Vegan Coffee-Shop Drinks
Put a healthier, dairy-free spin on your favorite seasonal coffee-shop drink with these recipes.
The New Pancake Breakfast
Reboot your pancakes with add-ins like mashed bananas, sweet potatoes, shredded carrots, protein powder, and more.
Comfort Food for Your Brain
What you feed your body, you also feed your brain — sometimes to its detriment. Learn how to nourish your gray matter for more balanced moods, clearer thinking and a more fulfilling life.
NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH: 5 Supplements for Mental Health
Here are some key supplements to give your mental health a boost.
How to Make a Ginger-Lemon Wellness Shot
Mix up this anti-inflammatory wellness drink to give your immune system a boost.
Home
13 Tips to Winterize Your Home
With the polar vortex becoming more unpredictable each year, home winterproofing can help save energy, fight climate change — and keep you warm.
11 Tips to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Simple steps to clear the air inside your house.
How to Create a Natural Home Medicine Cabinet
You stock your kitchen’s pantry shelves with wholesome, all-natural goods. Why not the shelves of your bathroom, too?