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Can the Common Cold Prime Our Immune System to Fight COVID?
Exposure to germs may help our B cells and T cells battle COVID later on.
Can Bicycles Help Create a Better World?
We often think of cycling in terms of personal health, but it has many social, economic, and environmental impacts.
CLIMATE CHAMPION: One Tree Planted
This transformative climate project — focused on reforestation strategy — offers surprising hope for the future.
PUMPING IRONY: Home Healthcare Shakeup: Palliative or Predatory?
Health-insurance conglomerates are gobbling up home-healthcare companies, despite the industry’s inability to attract and retain workers. Early signs suggest that few of the benefits of these mergers will accrue to caregivers and their elderly clients.
The Problem With Antimicrobial Cleaning Products
Surface transmission of COVID is rare. But, many of us are still using antimicrobial products to clean surfaces — and killing good bugs in the process.
Should People With IBS, Leaky Gut, or Other Gut Issues Eat a Raw-Food Diet?
If you have digestive challenges, a raw-foods diet might not be right for you. Here’s why.
CLIMATE CHAMPIONS: GRID Alternatives
This transformative climate project — focused on increasing access to solar energy — offers surprising hope for the future.
7 Tips on Eating for Trauma Recovery
Cutting back on caffeine, eating magnesium-rich foods, and more can help support you while you are healing from chronic stress.
A Field Guide to Potatoes
Learn the features — and nutritional benefits — of five types of potatoes: French fingerlings, Peruvian purples, red potatoes, Yukon golds, and russets.
How to Improve Vagal Tone
Getting a massage, chanting, breathing deeply, and taking a cold shower can all help stimulate your vagus nerve.
How Does EMDR Work?
No one is exactly sure how eye movement desensitization and reprocessing helps treat trauma, but here are three working theories.
This is Your Vagus Nerve on Lockdown
Here’s how a lack of social interaction and fear of COVID contagion affects your vagus nerve.
Are the Carbs in Potatoes the Same as the Carbs in Sugar?
In short, no. Potatoes contain a more complex form of carbohydrate called amylose, which digests more slowly than sugar.
The Resilience Workout
Try these five moves — half-kneeling press, suspension-trainer one-arm row, goblet squat, glute bridge, and suitcase carry — to build physical, mental, and emotional resilience.
How Therapeutic Work — and Medication — Helped Gabrielle Bernstein Emerge from Trauma
In her new book, Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace, spiritual teacher Gabrielle Bernstein talks about how medication, when prescribed as part of a larger program of recovery and therapy, can help establish a safe baseline from which to do the deeper work.
How Hydration Affects Spine Health
It’s important to hydrate well — and nourish yourself with key nutrients — to keep your spine healthy. Here’s why.
6 Exercises for a Healthy Spine
Your spine is the literal backbone of your body, playing a key role in how well you move. These six exercises can help keep it strong, mobile, and healthy.
Why Black Women Need Self-Care
Radical self-care practices are critical for healing ourselves and our communities, especially when it comes to Black women. Psychotherapist and social worker Oludara Adeeyo, the author of the new book Self-Care for Black Women, explains why — and offers a grounding exercise you can try today.
The Scout’s Toolbox
Our defenses can blind us to information that we need to make good decisions. These six tips can help.
How to Build Romance Through Gratitude
Genuine appreciation can increase intimacy in your relationship. Here’s how.