And according to Amy Shah, M.D., there’s a perfectly good reason we might feel a little under the weather around that time of the month, and it has everything to do with our hormones. Although you might think cutting back on IF during your period is the way to go, this doc believes fasting while you’re menstruating is actually just fine—it’s only the week before that’s a no-go. Here’s why you shouldn’t fast right before your period starts and how to do it safely to reap the most benefits....

Penis-in-vagina intercourse isn’t likely to make a woman come. The real secret to how to cum lies in the clitoris. Here’s everything you need to know and a bunch of techniques to try. If you put an inordinate amount of pressure on yourself to come, you won’t be able to access the relaxed frame of mind that is often necessary to send you over the edge. Use this knowledge as a base to build on once you begin to masturbate....

In the case of being unmotivated, it could be either or both factors at play—as in, you’re lacking the desire to act itself or you don’t have anything fueling your motivation. As licensed psychotherapist Jordan Dann, MFA, L.P., CIRT, explains to mbg, motivation in the context we’re speaking about is “the ability to mobilize toward what somebody wants.” And that motivation, as we’re all likely aware, is a necessary component in everything, from our careers to our health to our relationships....

We suggest you clear those social media campaigns from your head and get ready for a massive paradigm shift because true detoxification is a daily physiological process that is 100% natural, intrinsic to our body’s core, and necessary for optimal whole-body health—and we’re going to explain why it’s so vital right here, right now. Whether these detoxification pathways are more obvious to us—like daily trips to the bathroom to excrete toxins via urine and poop—or occur without much of our attention (e....

Here are my tips for using the milestones of 2023 to make energetically aligned changes to your home environment that call on feng shui principles. You can use magenta to support your goals by writing your 2023 plans with a magenta pen or a fine-point magenta sharpie, adding splashes of magenta to your vision board, or wearing magenta to important meetings. You might want to kick off this year by doing some deep cleaning to polish and highlight the lovely details in your home....

Given these beauty-related benefits, it’s only natural to wonder whether topical melatonin can procure similar results. It turns out, melatonin-infused skin care products do carry some scientific weight—and because scalp care is skin care, melatonin may have some hair growth benefits, too. “A number of clinical studies have been done showing some improvement in androgenic alopecia2 in men and women after applying topical melatonin at night,” explains board-certified dermatologist Cynthia Bailey, M....

But in reality, it’s simply one of many ways to approach relationships—and individuals can make the active, conscious choice to be monogamous or to choose a different path. Today, monogamy is the most mainstream approach to relationships across many societies, though it’s by no means universal. Various cultures across the world practice polygamy (marriage between more than two people), and historically the majority of preindustrial societies engaged in polygamy of some sort, typically in the form of polygyny (two or more women sharing a husband)....