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Vitality is Crucial to Your Short-Term and Long-Term Health. Here’s Why.
Vitality is the state of being strong, active and energetic. In a longer-term sense, vitality is “a power giving continuance of life.” Here are some of our experts’ top-recommended ways to improve your vitality for optimal short- and long-term health.
4 Unexpected Culprits That May Be Behind Your Acne, Aging Skin, and Dark Spots
Dealing with premature lines, wrinkles, spots, and other signs of aging? Dry and damaged skin? Adult acne? There may be an imbalance in your skin’s microbiome. Your microbial composition is unique to you, determined largely by genetics, environment, lifestyle choices, and more. It’s also ever-changing. Humidity, temperature, day-to-day hygiene changes, and products cause the microbiome’s composition to fluctuate.
Weight Loss Medications: How to Use Them Safely
You’ve probably heard of the medications that have quickly become all the rage for weight loss. While they can be an effective tool to get to your goal weight, medications can be tricky. It’s important to understand how they work and their implications on your health and well-being.
Why Treating Your Body is the First Step to Managing Anxiety and Stress
“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health cannot exist.” As the philosopher Cicero implies, your mind is inextricable from your body in your overall health and well-being. Your body and mind work together seamlessly; your physical health connecting to your mental health, and your mental health connecting to your physical health.
Why Pelvic Floor Training is One of the Best Things You Can Do for Feminine Health
It’s time to get personal about a very important but little-talked-about area of your health: your pelvic floor. The pelvic floor is a part of the body that many women have heard of but aren’t sure where it is or how to find it — or why it’s critical to many bodily functions. If your pelvic floor isn’t functioning optimally (and for most women over 50 and some over 20, it’s not), it can lead to issues.
How Your Cycle Influences Your Body — And How to Move With It
Most women have experienced how the menstrual cycle affects day-to-day functioning, from emotional and energy fluctuations to pesky PMS symptoms like cramps and cravings. While PMS is certainly a time where you may experience the most symptoms, it’s not the only point in your cycle where your body is experiencing changes. Your hormones fluctuate throughout your entire cycle in phases and influence how you feel from week to week as the month goes by.
