You may be familiar with compression clothing—in particular stockings worn by people who are pregnant or stand all day for work—but it’s not the only way to improve circulation. The best compression boots are an equally (if not more) effective way to increase blood flow and improve circulation. Already popular with many professional athletes and even performers like Lady Gaga, compression boots can benefit a much wider audience than just the pros....

As an ACE-certified personal trainer with a specialization in orthopedic exercise, I’m a huge proponent of strength and resistance training to help enhance overall daily functioning, improve posture, boost your metabolism, prevent injury, and promote longevity—and science backs me up on this. A meta-analysis1 from the British Journal of Sports Medicine confirmed that a regular regimen of muscle-strengthening activities can reduce your risk of mortality, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes by up to 17%....

Not sure where to begin? With so many options and new types of equipment hitting the market each year, it’s tough to decipher the must-have fitness tools from those that will likely collect dust. That’s why we’ve created this list of the best home gym equipment for every fitness level. In other words, everything you need to crush your home fitness goals. The machine caters to every fitness level, so it’s one piece of equipment you won’t outgrow....

Whether your poop is green or brown, watery or pebble-like, there’s often a relatively simple explanation (and solution) for what’s going on. “Poop can range in shapes from what I’ll call bunny poops, which indicate constipation, to a thick pipe (ideal), to watery, which indicates either an infection, too little fiber, or some kind of food sensitivity or reaction,” functional medicine physician Wendie Trubow, M.D., tells mbg. “Poop can be a number of colors as well depending on what you are eating (which you know if you’ve ever eaten beets) but tends toward shades of brown, from light to dark....

There are a vast array of kisses, from perfunctory to serious, but there is something particularly special about romantic and sexual kisses. One of the benefits of kissing is that it allows for loads of data to be exchanged, which then makes it possible for people to unconsciously assess their potential and permanent partners. The lips are one of the thinnest layers of skin on the human body and densely populated with nerve endings, explains Fisher....

In my book The Anti-Anxiety Diet, I share how ketones have the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier serving to reduce oxidative stress in the brain, supporting optimal neurotransmitter signaling and directly influencing GABA, a powerful inhibitory neurotransmitter that reduces the fight-or-flight response, serving to provide a grounding anti-anxiety effect. Here, I cover why keto can lead to problematic hormone imbalances in some people and the simple (and satisfying) way you can get your body back in balance via carb cycling....

In addition to keeping your peepers in tiptop shape, vitamin A also helps your immune system function at its best and keeps cells growing and developing as they should (and that’s not all, either).* Clearly, there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes in order for your body to put the various forms of vitamin A you consume to work. When you consume retinol-containing animal foods, for example, the animal basically did one step of the process for you by converting the carotenoids they consumed from plants into that retinol form, notes Drake....