Meeting your twin flame is considered by some to be the most powerful soul encounter a person can experience. So, we asked experts how to know when you’ve found your twin flame, plus what to know about navigating this oftentimes tumultuous relationship and how to know if you and your twin flame are meant to be together. One of the main characteristics of a twin flame relationship is that it will be both challenging and healing....
Whether your poop is green or brown, watery or pebble-like, there’s often a relatively simple explanation (and solution) for what’s going on. “Poop can range in shapes from what I’ll call bunny poops, which indicate constipation, to a thick pipe (ideal), to watery, which indicates either an infection, too little fiber, or some kind of food sensitivity or reaction,” functional medicine physician Wendie Trubow, M.D., tells mbg. “Poop can be a number of colors as well depending on what you are eating (which you know if you’ve ever eaten beets) but tends toward shades of brown, from light to dark....
As it turns out, vitamin D actually supports gum and tooth health and is predicted to help manage gingivitis and gum disease. Seriously, this research might have you exchanging your mints for a quality vitamin D supplement! Gingivitis is the medical term for inflammation of the gums1, and its symptoms include red, swollen, and bleeding gums; sensitive teeth; receding gums; and bad breath. If gingivitis progresses, periodontitis—a severe gum infection that can lead to tooth loss—can develop....
Unlike some nutrition queries that are somewhat gray and equivocal in nature, when vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) and vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) go head-to-head, the winner is clear. Allow me to use an analogy to explain. To wrap my Olympics nutrition visual: Vitamin D3 is on the middle podium with its anthem playing loud and clear, whereas vitamin D2 didn’t medal at all. Harsh but true. Before I get granular on why D3 triumphs over D2, let’s recap why vitamin D should be top of mind in the first place....
Shortly after arriving at college, she remembered brushing her teeth next to her new roommate. “What are you doing?” her roommate asked her, gesturing to the tap she’d left on as she brushed. My teacher didn’t realize what the big deal was until she looked over at her roommate’s tap and saw it was shut off. The roommate came from a dry area in California, my teacher from a water-rich town on the East Coast....
This client believed his problems stemmed from increased levels of stress in his personal life. While I agreed that likely played a part, I also identified another culprit: The massive amounts of caffeine he was drinking every morning. Thomas was drinking black coffee to mask underlying issues such as morning tiredness due to suboptimal sleep. Sure, the coffee was powering the early part of his day. But the side effects he was experiencing in the midafternoon were what we call a caffeine crash....
This client believed his problems stemmed from increased levels of stress in his personal life. While I agreed that likely played a part, I also identified another culprit: The massive amounts of caffeine he was drinking every morning. Thomas was drinking black coffee to mask underlying issues such as morning tiredness due to suboptimal sleep. Sure, the coffee was powering the early part of his day. But the side effects he was experiencing in the midafternoon were what we call a caffeine crash....
