This has made way for a buffet of high-price, low-return products to enter the market and convolute what “wellness” really means—and who has access to it. In the last year, op-eds like Jessica Knoll’s “Smash the Wellness Industry” (which likened wellness culture to diet culture) and Jen Gunter’s “Worshiping the False Idols of Wellness” (which declared that the expensive wellness complex is exploiting gaps left by medicine) have run in the New York Times and stoked the first flames of the wellness backlash into an all-out fire....

Despite the nuts’ dietary praise, their apples (or pseudo fruits) remain mostly out of the spotlight. The cashew apple—or the plump part of the cashew fruit, connected to the cashew nut—looks like a mini, oval-shaped boxing glove. Botanically speaking, cashew apples are so-called accessory fruits because they grow after cashew seeds have fully developed. Thus, the actual drupe or peduncle is the kidney-shaped shell enclosing the edible cashew nut, which you’ll find at the end of the apple....

That’s right, your hair can become damaged from UV rays as well. However, it’s extremely different from sun damage you might see on the skin and requires different care. For example: You might see the phrase “hair sunscreen” slapped onto labels, but these protective formulas aren’t really SPF products at all (or, well, they don’t have to be). Allow us to explain. But hair sunscreens are very different from their skin-focused counterparts....

The ancient medical text that is still considered the doctrine of Chinese medicine today, The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic (黄帝内经), was thought to have been written sometime between 2600 B.C. and 300 B.C1. However, more recent discoveries suggest that the roots of TCM may extend even deeper. In 1991, archaeologists uncovered a well-preserved, 5,000-year-old mummy in Central Europe2 that had acupoints tattooed on the body. Detailed x-rays revealed arthritis in the hips, knees, and lumbar spine of this prehistoric man....

“Let’s do this,” I replied. In the following years, my hair would fall out in little patches around my head and eventually grow back. It was just enough to make me self-conscious but not so much that anyone else noticed. Sometimes there were several bald spots, and sometimes there was just one. There didn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to my hair loss cycles. I went to numerous doctors, none of whom could solve my hair loss....

Despite being aware of the risk for sexually transmitted infections, HIV, cervical cancer, and unplanned pregnancy, many people still engage in unprotected sex. In one 2017 survey, 65 percent of people admitted to having had unprotected sex—and 29 percent said they had unprotected sex every single time they engaged in intercourse. The findings showed straight women were more willing to participate in unsafe sex when the potential for a long-term relationship was on the table....

Phase I is the first line of defense against toxins in the liver. Phase I reactions occur primarily by cytochrome P450 enzymes, which help transform fat-soluble toxins into less harmful chemicals that can be metabolized by the phase II enzymes. This process produces free radicals, which are quenched by antioxidants (like vitamins C and E). However, if antioxidants can’t meet the demands of excessive toxin exposure, too many free radicals can actually cause damage to the cells in the liver....