Throughout 2022, our sex experts talked to us about new ways of understanding timeless concepts like desire, consent, and eroticism. Ahead are some of our favorite bits of advice and wisdom we’ve gotten from them over the course of the year, that we know we’ll be continuing to think about in the years to come: “Lots of relationships have extended periods without sex, circumstantially or intentionally, and are still fulfilling sources of love and connection....

And America is eating it up: According to the Department of Agriculture, U.S. kale production increased by nearly 60 percent between 2007 and 2012. Kale is for sale at Wal-Mart. Even McDonald’s is jumping on the cruciferous kale bandwagon and began testing kale breakfast bowls in nine California locations in May. But now, “anyone and everyone is growing it," says Charles Muranaka, executive vice president of Muranaka Farm, Inc., the largest shipper of bunched kale in the U....

Turmeric is one of my absolute favorite healing foods because it has a rich history as a medicinal food and is incredibly versatile in the kitchen. Here, I’m going to talk about turmeric tea, an ancient remedy that absolutely has a place in a modern-day self-care routine. Some of the conditions turmeric has been most commonly used for include: While it’s available in whole root form as well, turmeric is most commonly sold in powdered form....

Ahead, we offer advice from couples’ therapists on how to recognize signs of an unhappy relationship and what to do if you find yourself unhappy in a relationship but scared to leave. Happiness is an emotion, after all, and we’re all familiar with what it feels like to be happy. Unhappiness can be considered the absence of that feeling, or it can present as feelings of sadness, frustration, stress, apathy, or even boredom....

Many of my clients ask me the following kinds of questions: No matter how much your partner tries to make you feel safe, such as spending more time with you or restricting their contact with whoever threatens you, you will still feel insecure if you are abandoning yourself by judging yourself, ignoring your feelings, or making your partner responsible for your self-worth. You will always feel insecure, inadequate, and not good enough, and you will always feel threatened by others when you are rejecting and abandoning yourself....

“It is normal for some people to not feel good when they first wake up,” MacFarlane says. “They’re going to be zombies for 20 minutes whether they’ve slept 12 hours or 2 hours.” Waking up in the middle of deeper sleep stages like REM sleep or slow-wave sleep also seems to make sleep inertia worse. While sleep inertia only lasts for a few minutes for some people, others feel it for longer....

The spine is made up of four curves. The cervical spine is the topmost curve. It is comprised of seven vertebrae in the neck. Below it, the 12 thoracic vertebrae form the curve to which the ribs attach. The low back, or lumbar curve, is made up of five vertebrae, the largest bodied vertebrae of the spine. And the bottommost curve is comprised of five fused vertebrae in the sacrum followed by four fused vertebrae in the coccyx....