As integrative and functional medicine gain popularity, and as we learn more about the downside of traditional antibiotics—like overprescription and the rise of antibiotic resistance—patients are asking more and more about natural antibiotic therapy, so let’s dive in. It’s important to know that these natural antibiotics have limitations and aren’t always the right solution. As with any infection, it’s highly important to talk to your physician and never self-diagnose and treat yourself....

Not only are sex dreams totally normal, but they can also carry valuable information, according to dream interpreter Lauri Loewenberg. Here, we’re rolling through the types of sex dreams people often have, what they could mean, and how to stop having them (only if you want to, of course). In the case of sex dreams, she explains, “The main thing to keep in mind when trying to figure out your sex dream is they’re rarely about a physical union you want but more about a psychological union....

However, you can take part in eco-friendly slugging by using botanicals rich in fatty acids. One example is sea buckthorn oil—a natural oil that comes from tiny orange berries. Here’s why we love it for slugging, color correcting, and more. In more recent years, sea buckthorn oil has gained popularity for its skin-softening properties, though it’s also been used topically for centuries. The fatty acid properties are similar to other botanical oils, but its nutrient profile is particularly rich....

Should you steer clear of this ingredient altogether or hoard every product that has it listed on the label? (Spoiler: While not harmful, we believe you should treat it with caution.) Board-certified dermatologist Dendy Engelman, M.D., agrees: “It’s popularly used in hair and skin care products as a smoothing and occlusive ingredient,” she says. “You may be able to recognize the presence of dimethicone in your products by the silky-smooth texture that it adds....

In psychology, we’ve traditionally understood this to be a choice between a happy life and a meaningful one. Recently, researchers Lorraine Besser and Shigehiro Oishi explored the concept of a “psychologically rich life1” as a third potential route into a good life. However, enjoying a happy life is tied to some extent to good luck and fortune—it’s likelier to happen when we have enough resources to eat and sleep and live in an area with no major conflicts....

People who practice relationship anarchy, sometimes abbreviated as RA, are beholden to themselves and only themselves when it comes to choosing who they conduct sexual or romantic relationships with and how they do it. Relationship anarchists look to form relationships with people that are based entirely on needs, wants, and desires rather than on socially mandated labels and expectations. Some central tenets of relationship anarchy are freedom, communication, and nonhierarchy. An RA mindset also seeks to dissolve the strict divides between platonic friendship and sexual or romantic love that exist in wider society....

Trust really is a practice, an art—especially in those moments when it feels like you’re working hard and things just aren’t happening. In the wellness world, we put so much emphasis on the importance of letting go, relinquishing the need to control and learning to trust that things will simply be taken care of. A job will appear, along with a dream partner and loads of money. In other words: we automatically position ourselves as dependent, weak and disempowered in relation to some elevated idea of “the universe....