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Can Massage Soothe Pain?
Massage can lower cortisol levels and enhance dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, all of which helps with pain relief.
NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH: How Using Your Senses Can Improve Your Mental Health
Smell, touch, and sound can help cultivate resilience. Here’s how.
The Sixth Stage of Grief
How finding meaning in loss can help you heal.
Gender-Identity Terminology
10 terms to know when it comes to gender identity, including “genderqueer,” “assigned gender,” and “gender confirmation.”
Can Massage Help Ease Anxiety and Depression?
Stimulating the peripheral nerves with massage can switch the nervous system into rest-and-relaxation mode.
The Connection Between Sugar and Cancer Metabolism
Sugar is the top food to avoid when it comes to cancer, according to an integrative oncologist at the University of California San Francisco.
Why Vitamin D?
Vitamin D is the most common micronutrient deficiency — but it’s also one that we can prevent with relative ease. In this mini episode, Anika Christ, RD, CPT, explains why vitamin D is critical to our health, including its role in immunity, and offers ways we can make sure our bodies get optimal levels.
Habit Help for the Holiday Season
A four-step plan for solidifying healthy behaviors despite the obstacles of this time of year.
Fit-for-Life Training
The keys to working out as we get older? Build slowly, allow enough time for recovery, and be kind to yourself.
Rising Early May Reduce Depression Risk
Sleep timing may lower risk of major depression by as much as 23 percent, according to a recent study in JAMA Psychiatry.
3 Hot and Cold Therapies for Postworkout Recovery
These three temperature-based therapies offer postworkout recovery support.
11 Massage Modalities
From acupressure to myofascial release to trigger-point therapy, here are various forms of massage — and what they are good for.
PUMPING IRONY: Help for the Helpful
Recent research suggests older folks can be quick to assist others while neglecting their own well-being. The solution may involve learning the difference between being nice and being kind.
Foods to Eat — and Avoid — During Cancer Treatment
Use nutrition to help protect — and fortify — a weakened immune system during cancer treatment.
6 Tips to Start Working Out — at Any Age
Here are six ways to get over the mental barriers to working out.
Can Massage Help Relieve Headaches?
Shiatsu-style massage and craniosacral therapy can help with chronic headaches.
Larry Prablek’s Success Story
After a frightening bout with COVID-19, an ER doctor recommits to his fitness routine.
The Benefits of Group Therapy
Individual therapy sessions are great for mental-health support, but group therapy also offers a variety of unique advantages.
4 Foods to Wake Up Taste Buds During Cancer Treatment
Nourishing yourself while undergoing treatment can be tricky. These foods might help whet your appetite.
Fit for Life: You’re Never Too Old to Get Moving
One of our greatest misconceptions is that we reach peak fitness when we’re young, and then it’s all downhill. Here are fitness tips for life — no matter your age.
PUMPING IRONY: Medicate or Meditate?
While Alzheimer’s patients wait to see if Biogen’s new drug will someday prove effective — and affordable — researchers continue to make a case for the healing powers of meditation.