The concept, called hormesis (which you can read all about here), states that periodic stressors will trigger a cellular response that may slow aging, better equip you to manage future stress, and enhance overall health. Case in point: infrared sauna therapy. Compared to traditional saunas, which use some form of physical heat (wood or stones heated by fire, gas, or electricity) to raise the temperature, infrared saunas rely on infrared light, a wavelength invisible to the human eye that presents itself through heat....

One of the most important (and overlooked) ways to maintain your immunity is actually managing your stress. We get it, though—telling you to simply “chill out” isn’t exactly a solution here. So we teamed up with Healist to show you that, despite gestures broadly at everything, finding balance by dialing down the stress (and dialing up the immunity!) is well within everyone’s reach. But you’re probably more familiar with distress, which is the feeling you get after the death of a loved one, the experience of a financial loss, or a fight with your partner....

The Major Arcana cards depict the Fool’s Journey as he learns lessons along his path—and when pulled during a tarot reading, they represent an overarching theme and nudge us to think about the bigger picture, astrologist and tarotist Bess Matassa previously explained to mbg. The Major Arcana cards are also often complex and significant, and their appearance will influence the entire reading. If you pull one or more in a multi-card pull, you’ll want to pay close attention....

It wasn’t until I met a friend for breakfast who blamed her tardiness on the green juice that I became intrigued. Every morning she grabs a glass of celery juice from her local bodega. She doesn’t eat anything for 30 minutes and then goes about her day. Since drinking the juice, she has been feeling like a superwoman, she told me—less bloated, with more energy. She’s even lost a few pounds....

While it’s often considered “the world’s favorite color” and linked with the Earth through bodies of water and the sky, we also use the word “blue” to describe feeling down (i.e., Sadness in the movie Inside Out is even depicted as an all-blue character, and “blues” music is quintessentially somber). One of the most prolific painters in history, Pablo Picasso, even created a series of blue paintings in the early 1900s with a distinctly sad feel—aptly named his “blue period....

As such, we can arrive at a definition of a toxic family, too: A toxic family is one wherein family members regularly display actions that hurt or otherwise negatively affect each other. Neo adds that it’s important to distinguish being toxic from acting toxic, noting that “the first is when it’s ingrained in our personality, and we actively enjoy hurting others; the second corresponds to aspects of our behaviors.” In any case, being around toxic people—particularly within your home and/or family—can be detrimental to someone’s mental health....

Though research is sparse, plenty of people still swear by the colonic. Before determining if this is right for you, it’s important to understand how it works and the potential risks and side effects. When going in for a colonic irrigation procedure, you can expect to disrobe and don the ever-fashionable hospital gown. You’ll lie on a treatment table, and the practitioner will begin the procedure by inserting a tube into your rectum....