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Your Questions, Answered: How is Life Time continuing to keep its health clubs clean during the coronavirus pandemic?
Learn how we’ve enhanced our rigorous safety and cleaning protocols to make our spaces safer for you and our team members.
How Good Is Your Tap Water?
Curious what’s in your tap water? Check out the Environmental Working Group’s new Tap Water Database.
6 Exercises for Healthy Hips
Our experts show us how to prevent and recover from hip issues with a series of simple moves.
PUMPING IRONY: Trials and Tribulations
Elderly Americans who volunteer for drug trials seldom make the cut. That makes it more difficult for researchers to know just how their new product will work for folks who often need it the most.
Can Yeast Overgrowth Make You Drunk?
Technically, yes. Too much candida in your gut microbiome can lead to a condition called auto-brewery syndrome.
6 Health Benchmarks to Monitor — and Why
Consider these measurements as part of your toolkit for continually optimizing your health.
Why Meaningful Encounters Matter
Loneliness is a huge health risk for us all. Here are ways to create more high-quality connections.
8 Ways Exercise Makes You Gorgeous
Regular exercise also gives you a healthy, glowing look and an unmistakable va-va-voom that you just can’t get any other way.
8 Hidden Toxins Lurking in Your Cleaning Products
We assume they are safe. But in fact, many popular household cleaners are dangerously toxic. Learn about the eight scariest substances hiding under your kitchen sink, and how to replace them with safer, more natural options that really work.
Gut Feelings: The Science of Intuition
By cultivating your intuitive skills, you’ll be able to listen more closely to what your body is trying to tell you.
How Exercise Heals
Regular physical activity can help us recover more quickly, heal more easily, and get an edge over all kinds of disease and injury. In fact, exercise may just be nature’s best medicine.
The Best Defense: Boost Your Immune System
Your immune system works to keep you healthy 24 hours a day. Here’s how to help it operate at peak efficiency.
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.
13 Strategies to Deal With Your Emotional Triggers
A psychotherapist offers actionable advice for handling our trigger reactions.
The Blue Zones Habits for Longevity
Buettner joins us to talk about the Blue Zones — places around the globe with the highest populations of longest-living individuals — and the Power 9 healthy-lifestyle habits they have in common, plus ways we can begin to incorporate these behaviors in our own lives for increased longevity and vitality.
PUMPING IRONY: Statins and Suspicions
Recent research suggests cholesterol-reducing drugs may be safer than once thought and offer cancer- and COVID-fighting benefits. So, why do I remain unconvinced?
Healthy, Happy Hips: 6 Exercises and Stretches to Ease Hip Pain
Improving strength and mobility in your hips can help alleviate pain and irritation while improving performance and quality of life.
9 Building Blocks to Being Anti-Racist
It’s not enough to not be racist. Learn what you can do for yourself, your social circle, and your community to promote anti-racism — and why it matters for health.
The Truth About MSG
Depending on whom you ask, monosodium glutamate is either a miracle ingredient or a dangerous neurotoxin. The truth likely lies somewhere in between.
The Table
A call for alignment on a global scale — for the good of our planet and future generations.
PUMPING IRONY: Locked Out
While COVID-19 has exacted a huge toll on those coping with a chronic disease, few have suffered more than older adults struggling with dementia.