If you think you’ve found your twin flame, here’s a quick quiz to find out, plus some signs of a twin flame relationship to watch out for. Twin flame relationships are known to be both challenging and healing and even sometimes toxic. This is because a twin flame will show you your deepest insecurities, fears, and shadows—but also help you overcome them. In some cases, twin flames can help each other grow and heal together, but at other times, twin flames are not always meant to stay together forever and rather facilitate growth during that period in your lives....

Here, we’ll dive into the personality traits of Virgo and explore how this sign approaches life, love, career, and more. In Gemini (a mutable air sign), Mercury manifests as quick-thinking, chatty, and dynamic energy. Virgo, however, is an earth sign, so it speaks to Mercury’s more self-contained energy. Virgo’s job, with the help of Mercury, is to sort through the harvest—essentially separating what’s necessary from what’s not. Virgo is dedicated to this task, hence why Virgos are often known as the editors of the zodiac....

This makes telomeres a telling marker for how a body will age: After studying telomere length across multiple species, a research team out of Spain found that the rate of telomere decay over time could accurately predict the life span of that species. And abnormally short telomeres seem to make humans more susceptible to conditions such as bone marrow failure, pulmonary fibrosis, liver disease, and gastrointestinal disease over time. “Human beings with the highest vitamin D levels have the longest telomeres, and people with the lowest vitamin D levels have the [shortest] telomeres,” Gundry told mbg co-CEO Jason Wachob, referring to research in the Archives of Medical Science2 and the Journal of Nutrition3 on the association between telomere length and vitamin D levels....

According to Dainis Graveris, a sex educator and founder of Sexual Alpha, neopronouns are a category of new pronouns that intentionally go beyond the traditional gender binary of masculine and feminine. While some people consider they/them/theirs pronouns as the go-to gender-neutral pronouns, they still limit individuals to three pronoun categories—he, she, or they. That’s where neopronouns come in. “Neopronouns empower folks who feel different from the rest of the world to be true to themselves when all other pronouns and labels don’t fit them,” Graveris explains to mbg....

Understandably, this can feel like a personal stab to your skin care-loving heart. Don’t be so quick to toss that product, though. Cetearyl alcohol is a commonly misunderstood ingredient—and it’s not as bad as you might think. Chemically speaking, cetearyl alcohol is a fatty alcohol. It’s made of cetyl alcohol and stearyl alcohol, two fatty alcohols also used in skin care. On ingredient labels, cetearyl alcohol is sometimes listed as cetostearyl alcohol, cetyl/stearyl alcohol, or C16-18 alcohol....

Even further, you can incorporate intermittent fasting (IF) into any diet plan. Turns out there is. And this less-talked-about form of fasting, called circadian rhythm fasting or the circadian rhythm diet, has some serious benefits. Your circadian rhythm (also sometimes referred to as your sleep/wake cycle) is a 24-hour internal “clock” that regulates how awake and/or tired you feel during the course of a day. Your circadian rhythm is controlled by an area in your brain called the hypothalamus1, which is super sensitive to light....

We’re talking about hormesis1, or the idea that short, intermittent bursts of certain stressors (“hormetic stressors”) can actually trigger a cascade of cellular processes that enhance overall health, slow aging, and make you more resilient to future stress (both physical and mental). It’s weird and fascinating stuff, and one of the hottest areas of longevity research right now. Hormetic stressors, on the other hand, are controlled, acute stressors that trigger healthy adaptive responses....