- Brain/Mental Health -
Can EMDR Change Your Brain?
By Quinton SkinnerWhy eye movement desensitization and reprocessing — or EMDR — may help treat trauma.
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- Brain/Mental Health -
Can Psychedelics Change Your Brain?
By Quinton SkinnerNew research is exploring how natural and synthetic psychedelics affect the brain.
- Fitness Tips -
Exercising Your Memory
By Experience Life StaffCan a single workout help our memory?
- Stress Relief -
How Movement Therapy Can Heal Traumatic Stress
By Maggie Fazeli FardTraumatic stress can be debilitating and terrifying. Movement therapy — involving increasingly accessible, thoughtful approaches to exercise — offers new hope.
- Gut Health -
The Truth About Refined Grains
By Catherine GuthrieWhen ground into flours, most grains act like sugar in the body, triggering weight gain, inflammation and blood-sugar imbalances. Here’s why whole kernels are a better option than processed grains.
- Coming Clean -
COMING CLEAN: Little Love
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlWatching my toddler show love to others has expanded my own heart’s capacity. Did she develop this emotion by nature or nurture?
- Life Unedited -
LIFE, UNEDITED: Living With Alzheimer’s
By Michael DregniWriter Greg O’Brien fights his early-onset dementia by chronicling the effects of the disease in the stunning memoir On Pluto.
- Pumping Irony -
PUMPING IRONY: Your Brain on Yoga
By Craig CoxA new study suggests movement and meditation may conquer dementia and depression. My own experience suggests it promotes an odd sort of conviviality.
- Pumping Irony -
PUMPING IRONY: Brain Drain
By Craig CoxA new study suggests that my hearing problems could cause my brain to give up some of its cognitive functions.
- Personal Development -
Creativity: It’s Not Just Your Imagination
By Heidi WachterA new study is the first to link the cerebellum to the creative process.
- Couples -
Your Brain in Love
By Terri TrespicioThe science behind lust, attraction, and attachment — and the enduring mysteries that data can’t explain.
- General Health -
Lyme Disease: How to Protect Yourself This Summer
By Maggie Fazeli FardThe tick-borne illness, one of the fastest growing diseases in the United States, can be disabling if left untreated.
- Nutrition -
10 Things You Need to Know About Food Dyes
By Maggie Fazeli FardAt best, the dyes are aesthetic enhancers. At worst — and as many "real food" advocates claim — they are a public-health menace linked to behavioral problems and other consequences.
- Brain/Mental Health -
Obesity and the Brain: How Exercise May Help Combat Cognitive Decline
By Maggie Fazeli FardNew research on mice provides clues to how excess body fat harms the human brain — and how exercise may help.
- Nutrition -
Pumping Up My Brain Power
By Maggie Fazeli FardFive ways that staff writer and resident "gym rat" Maggie Fazeli Fard is beefing up her brain.
Study: Organic milk contains more heart-healthy fatty acids
By Maggie Fazeli FardFor people who drink milk, full-fat and organic may be a healthier option than conventional dairy.
- Pumping Irony -
PUMPING IRONY: This Is Your Brain on Exercise
By Craig CoxThere's a reason why some folks never take to exercise. It's all in their head.
- Pumping Irony -
PUMPING IRONY: Can You Say ‘Healthy Brain’ in French?
By Craig CoxFrench lessons haven't made me fluent, but at least my brain's getting a good workout.
- Sports/Recreation -
Why MovNat Matters Even More Than You Think – Part 2
By Liz BragdonPart 2 of our series on MovNat.
- Personal Development -
The Creative Habit
By Brian JohnsonOne of the world’s most prolific and innovative choreographers offers wisdom on cultivating and sharing your own creative gifts.
- Workouts -
Corre Principles: Erwan Le Corre
By Laine Bergeson Becco, FMCHCErwan Le Corre, 40, is the founder of MovNat, a forward-thinking approach to fitness that finds its practical inspiration in humanity’s primitive roots. Le Corre and his team hold outdoor training workshops in West Virginia and Thailand, where participants rediscover, practice and master the movement skills of their nature-dwellling ancestors. Born in France, Le Corre is considered one of the leading pioneers of the international primal-fitness movement.