What Is Functional Medicine?
Many people are finding better health solutions with functional medicine, a new model for how to practice medicine and treat chronic disease.
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How Chronic Inflammation Affects Your Health
Our bodies need inflammation to fight off infection, but too much of it for too long can spur a wide range of illnesses. Learning to manage it effectively is key.
3 Miracle Cures (That Aren’t, Really)
Too many chronic ailments have been pronounced “incurable.” Here’s how some forward-thinking practitioners are resolving such conditions — and transforming their patients’ lives.
The Benefits of Moving Your Body
The benefits of physical activity can be felt in every part of the body, making you stronger, smarter, healthier, happier, and even more gorgeous.
DIGIN: A 5-Step Functional-Medicine Protocol to Treat Digestive Disorders
This framework can help simplify the process of diagnosing and treating complex digestive disorders.
What Is a Functional Neurological Disorder?
Hybrid disorders of the brain, mind, and body once confounded physicians and researchers. Today experts are beginning to uncover the conditions’ complexities — and how to treat them.
What Is Homeopathy?
Treating mild ailments with homeopathic medicine is becoming more mainstream in U.S. healthcare. Learn how it works, and how to make it part of your own healthcare toolkit.
How Empowered Health Seekers Are Redefining Healthcare
Is healthcare something delivered by a provider when you get sick — or something you do for yourself to stay vital, healthy and well? A growing number of health seekers say “both.” Together, they’re forging an empowered new path through America’s broken medical system.
N-Acetylcysteine: What are the Health Benefits and How Much Should I Take?
A Life Time dietitian looks at the impact N-acetylcysteine can have in our health.
The Future of Health
Discover some of the most promising developments in whole-person health.
How to Treat Long-Haul COVID
COVID-19 is leaving many with a disturbing array of chronic symptoms. These functional-medicine strategies can help.
What Chronic Conditions Might be Exacerbated by Food Reactivity?
Food sensitivities can make chronic conditions, such as Crohn’s disease, IBS, and ulcerative colitis worse.
Help Wanted: Health Coach
Trained to listen and support, rather than simply dole out advice, health coaches are attracting more attention than ever — from patients and from a healthcare industry desperate for solutions.
Measuring Meditation
For centuries, proponents of meditation have hailed its potential for healing body and mind. Now, science is backing a growing number of those claims.
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.
Mark Hyman: Take Care of Yourself
Functional-medicine pioneer Mark Hyman, MD, is doing his best to help you avoid the doctor altogether.
The Ultimate Guide to Immune-Supportive Supplements
A smart supplementation plan can support your daily health and well-being — and it can be critical to the function of your immune system. Here are the supplements a Life Time dietitian recommends considering.
The Health Benefits of Drinking Water
Proper hydration is key to good health, but why? And what’s the best way to get what our bodies really need? Our experts debunk a few myths.
Health: The New Sex Symbol
From the biological basis for attraction to the underpinnings of head-turning good looks — an exploration into the compelling connections between vitality and sex appeal.
Why Autoimmune Diseases Are on the Rise — Especially After COVID
Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune conditions are on the rise, partly because of the prevalence of long COVID. Discover what can trigger autoimmunity and how a functional-medicine approach can help.