According to a 2013 study, 74 percent of Americans suffer from some form of digestive issue. What makes dandelion root tea healing for our digestive fire is the bitter taste that stimulates gastric juices to improve bile flow. Like my beloved coffee, dandelion tea has a similar diuretic effect on the body4. While I knew I wanted to make the shift from my delicious warm cup of coffee in the morning to this superfood tea, would I have to sacrifice taste?...

If you’re concerned about your magnesium levels (which tend to decline with age), here are the most common symptoms of a deficiency, how to test your levels, and what to do about it. Magnesium plays a key role in managing the body’s normal inflammatory response. When magnesium intake is low, inflammatory biomarkers such as high-sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-CRP), interleukin-6, and fibrinogen4 are significantly affected. In fact, a large study of a Nordic diet5 providing magnesium-rich foods, such as whole grains and vegetables, reduced the pro-inflammatory protein known as Interleukin-1....

Eating a more magnesium-rich diet is a great place to start. Magnesium is present in some delicious foods like dark leafy green vegetables, legumes and nuts, wheat and other grains, and fish. Additionally, magnesium can be utilized in other forms—including as traditional supplement capsules, Epsom salts, magnesium oil, magnesium cream, and drinkable powder—that make it easy to incorporate it into your everyday routine. This versatility means you might have a friend who takes a magnesium supplement to help her sleep, a family member who’s an Epsom salt bath enthusiast, or a co-worker who swears by that powdered magnesium she drinks for post-workout muscle recovery....

“I use storytelling to disrupt what is with the possibility of what can be,” Rivas says on his website, describing a mission that has seen him collaborate with everyone from the WWE to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. We caught up with Rivas to talk storytelling, the dangers of productivity, his path to meditation and Buddhism (it started with a college crush), and his vision for making wellness more accessible....

Adults with Peter Pan syndrome, also sometimes called failure-to-launch syndrome, avoid the personal and professional responsibilities of adulthood. “They just are the individuals who really don’t want to grow up,” psychotherapist and relationship expert Babita Spinelli, L.P., tells mbg. “And they find adult responsibilities truly challenging.” Kiley may have focused on men in his research, but Peter Pan syndrome can apply to any gender. “In today’s day and age, we don’t have those kinds of gender stereotypes, so we really want to be more open in how we apply it,” confirms Spinelli....

Of the 78 cards in a traditional tarot deck, the Queen of Wands, often called “the witch of the deck,” is widely considered one of the most auspicious. Here’s what the card means, plus what it might say about your love life, career, and more. Despite depicting a woman, Vanderveldt notes this card doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with gender, explaining that “the court cards (Pages, Knights, Queens, and Kings) show up to remind you to tap into certain energies that you possess and let those energies guide you in the way you move through the world....

Certain relaxation techniques can help us return to a parasympathetic, rest-and-digest, state. “Relaxation techniques reset and reboot the nervous system so people can feel good within their own bodies and shut down racing thoughts,” Roseann Capanna-Hodge, M.D., an integrative mental health expert, tells mbg. Learning how to curb stress responses before or when they happen can improve your quality of life. The key is turning relaxation into a practice. “Relaxation techniques only calm the brain when you do them consistently, and that means taking 10 minutes or more every day to intentionally practice them,” says Capanna-Hodge....