With options to talk, text, or video chat with your online therapist, you can’t beat the convenience of therapy from your own home. As access to therapy continues to improve, the United States has seen an increase in the number of people open to receiving mental health treatment online. In fact, a 2022 public opinion poll by the American Psychiatric Association found that nearly four in 10 Americans have used telehealth services to meet with medical or mental health professionals....

With such an intense love for my practice, you can probably imagine that the 30-day Bikram yoga challenge had been on my bucket list for years. I’d attempted the challenge (unofficially) a few times—10 days here, 14 there—but never for an entire month. After dipping my toes in, I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it. So, before I could talk myself out of it, I signed up and embarked upon a 30-day journey of Bikram....

We’re talking about blind pimples. You know, those large, inflamed, painful pimples under the skin? These can be particularly uncomfortable and oftentimes more difficult to treat than their more low-key cousins like blackheads, for example. There are many nuances to these breakouts that derms need you to know, so here we go. You can get cystic pimples on every area of the face, neck, back, and perhaps other parts of the body too—but they’re most common on the face....

Your gastrointestinal (GI) tract doesn’t have words to tell you that it is overtaxed, unbalanced, or inflamed, so it sends you symptoms like bloating, belching, and gas instead. When you can read these symptoms as signals, you gain the opportunity to truly nourish and support your unique body without judgment. Clara didn’t need to uproot her life and eat “perfectly” to banish her bloat, she simply needed to listen to her body and compassionately give it what it was asking for: rest, balance, and nutrition....

While zinc and magnesium are equally important, there’s a misconception that you shouldn’t take the two together. However, when they are taken at the correct dosages, it can actually be beneficial to get them both down at once. Yet around one in six people are falling short of their needs. “Considering food sources alone, 15% of U.S. adults are not getting enough zinc. Because this statistic comes from nationally representative data, that means that approximately 50 million Americans have an unaddressed zinc gap,” says mbg vice president of scientific affairs Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph....

I love a home workout as much as the next homebody, but are they as effective as a gym session or class? I decided to ask some fellow trainers and doctors their thoughts on the matter. “Some movement is ALWAYS better than no movement,” says Lauren Kanski, NASM-CPT. “You may be limited in creativity with an at-home workout but definitely not in ability.” The two main limitations people think of when they consider working out at home are space and equipment....

That being said, it’s never too early to be proactive about protecting your brain and optimizing cognitive longevity. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to nourish your noggin, from prioritizing sleep to eating an antioxidant-rich diet. Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter (i.e., signaling molecule) involved in basic cognitive processes, while phosphatidylcholine is a phospholipid (i.e., fatty-acid-containing molecule) that’s necessary for healthy cell membranes. Essentially, choline “feeds major metabolic pathways for brain function and structure,” integrative neurologist Romie Mushtaq, M....