Here’s everything you need to know about putting coconut oil on your private parts. Here are a few considerations and precautions you should take when using coconut oil as lube. When purchasing coconut oil, you may come across labels like unrefined, preservative-free, and partially hydrogenated coconut oil. While those labels have more to do with cooking and smoking points than anything else, it’s still best to look for coconut oil in its least processed form....

The way each member of a couple answers that question has a significant impact on how happy the relationship is, according to recent research. A study published in the 1Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy1 found more power-balanced couples tend to have higher-quality relationships, though the reasons might be different for men and women. The members of these couples were individually asked about who they thought had the most power in the relationship, including who has more say between the two of them, who controls decision-making, who usually has more say in whether they have sex, and who has more dominant personality traits....

If you’re battling bloating, abdominal pain, headaches, or any other symptoms related to consuming gluten, you may want to consider eliminating cross-reactive foods. When this happens, your immune system can view the two as the same. In other words, if you add cheese to your gluten-free bread, but you still experience bloating, gas, headaches, and other symptoms of gluten intolerance, the proteins in cheese could be to blame. “Just in the same way that antibodies can mistake the body’s own tissues for the gluten-related foreign molecules, if there are other foods that have very similar molecular structures to them as well, the antibodies that have already been made to recognize and attack the gluten-related molecules can also recognize and attack these other food molecules too,” says Stephanie Berg, N....

If you’re battling bloating, abdominal pain, headaches, or any other symptoms related to consuming gluten, you may want to consider eliminating cross-reactive foods. When this happens, your immune system can view the two as the same. In other words, if you add cheese to your gluten-free bread, but you still experience bloating, gas, headaches, and other symptoms of gluten intolerance, the proteins in cheese could be to blame. “Just in the same way that antibodies can mistake the body’s own tissues for the gluten-related foreign molecules, if there are other foods that have very similar molecular structures to them as well, the antibodies that have already been made to recognize and attack the gluten-related molecules can also recognize and attack these other food molecules too,” says Stephanie Berg, N....

Then, the December 7 Gemini full moon will make an exact alignment, demanding that we clear the air. Heap on the diplomacy and patience, which could be in short supply. That trademark Sagittarius season honesty, normally a refreshing burst of candor, could veer toward the brutal side. While you can’t avoid certain conversations, take extra care to keep them from getting contentious. This energy crescendos on December 3, when soulful Neptune ends a five-month retrograde through Pisces....

Based on these formative connections, you can fall into four main attachment styles: secure, anxious, fearful avoidant, and dismissive avoidant. The dismissive-avoidant attachment style is easy to spot, marked by someone who tends to avoid intimacy and prefers independence. Where you fall on the spectrum depends on your environment and how your needs were met: “People with this attachment style have no problem being single,” explains licensed professional counselor Rachel Sims, LPC....

To find out, we asked relationship experts what love means to begin with, plus common signs that typically indicate someone is in love with you. Here’s what they had to say. It’s also important to remember there are many different types of love. As clinical psychologist Kristina Hallett, Ph.D., previously explained to mbg, research has defined two major types of interpersonal love: passionate love (which is what we think of as romantic love, involving attraction and sexual desire) and attachment (also known as compassionate love, which can be between caregivers and children, long-term romantic partners, and other deeply bonded pairs)....