Functional-medicine pioneer Mark Hyman, MD, is doing his best to help you avoid the doctor altogether.
This portable smoothie from Dr. Mark Hyman can power the busiest of days. It’s 100 percent whole, real food — with plenty of plant proteins, healthy fats, fiber, and potent phytonutrients.
Sprint faster. Jump higher. Prevent injury. Avoid back pain. With a strong set of glutes behind you, you can do it all.
Pilar Gerasimo on how we can safeguard our vitality while living in a cultural context that often stretches us well beyond our natural capacity.
Top-tier research confirms that being compassionate is good for us, altering our physiology to boost not just happiness but well-being.
In a new study by the Stanford University School of Medicine, 88 percent of the 1,081 doctors surveyed say they would choose a do-not-resuscitate status if they had a terminal diagnosis rather than be hooked up to machines and feeding tubes in their final days.
Localharvest.org makes it easier to find CSAs in your location.
Your questions, answered.
Two easy exercises to engage your core.
An integrative psychiatrist offers a holistic approach for treating depressive illness.
Don’t hit the snooze button on your fitness goals. Here are 17 of the most common obstacles to exercising — and expert advice on how to overcome them.
Medical appointments can be intimidating. Here’s how to get the support you need from a doctor who makes you a partner in your own care.
It’s time for us to start taking better care of our amazing bodies — and for healthcare to start raising its game.
Don’t let yourself get run down, depressed, negative, or reactive. That’s when immunity drops, inflammation rages, and unhealthy tendencies strike.
How one woman avoided a hysterectomy by using nutrition to rebalance her hormones — naturally.
More than just a vacation, these retreat centers offer restoration for mind, body, and soul.
An array of wholesome ways to prepare one of the healthiest foods you can eat.
Sometimes the simplest questions can provoke the most complex and unpredictable answers.
Ten simple tips for making meditation a part of your life — starting now.
Your intestines are home to a great deal of your digestive system, nervous system, and immune system. Here’s how to keep them healthy.
A U.S. congressman explains how lack of access to real food is at the heart of our nation’s health problems — and what we can do about it.
Minimize the stress of paying bills by creating a simple system for household paperwork.
This three-day glute-training program combines a variety of movements that target the glutes and hips plus muscles throughout the legs and trunk.
Mark Hyman, MD, shares how his own health issues lead him to functional medicine, and why he now considers food and community to be our most powerful “medicines.”
In the final session of Experience Life‘s A Healthy Revolution 2014, Congressman Tim Ryan (OH) talks with founding editor Pilar Gerasimo about the important role citizens play in creating policy change and simple ways we can incorporate a whole-foods approach to eating in our everyday lives.
In this exclusive extended interview from his Experience Life cover shoot, functional-medicine pioneer Mark Hyman, MD, explains what functional medicine actually is, how it differs from integrative medicine, and how simply changing how we eat can create significant health improvements in a matter of days. Plus, Hyman shares what a typical day of eating looks like in his own life.
The effects of a leaky gut extend far beyond the gastro-intestinal tract. As our understanding of the syndrome increases, the list of conditions related to leaky gut keeps growing. Here’s a partial list:
Scientists find that leaky gut syndrome can lead to the onset of an autoimmune disease.
Some of the most valuable tests that can help identify direct and indirect signs of a leaky gut.
Strategies to repair your leaky gut at home.
How compassion and social connection have a powerful effect on our health, happiness, and well-being.
A quick primer on how each of your digestive organs are involved in and affected by leaky gut syndrome.
Healthy food advocate and author, Robyn O’Brien offers suggestions for making our food system work for 21st century families.