“It’s important to know there are pickles and then there are pickles!” says nutrition consultant and natural chef Karyn Forsyth Duggan, M.S., BBS. “The classic store-bought pickled vegetables are simply pickled in vinegar and then canned/jarred so they’re shelf-stable. There’s really no comparison between these pickled foods and foods that have actually been fermented.” “Pickled foods can be made via fermentation,” says Megan Meyer, Ph.D., director of science communications at the International Food Information Council....

Manifestation journals take your intentions to the next level. By encouraging you to put pen to paper, they help you carry your positive thoughts into the physical realm. No matter what you’re looking to attract, here’s how manifestation journals can help, plus how to get started working with one. You can think of a manifestation journal as a written record of what you want to attract, in the same way that a vision board is a visual depiction of those things....

According to Khurana, nail-biting behaviors can start in childhood, and some research even suggests that it may be genetic. But it’s not certain whether this type of behavior is learned and imitated or a built-in innate feature. If your picking habit is a conscious behavior that happens when you experience intense negative emotions, “try to understand that something is affecting you in the moment that needs to be released,” says Michaela Chatzimanoli, a clinical psychologist at SkinPick....

Now for the good news: Acupuncture and Chinese medicine have effectively treated anxiety for centuries due to its ability to individualize treatment and address the “Shen” (the Chinese word for “spirit”), which is a large part of the puzzle Western medicine often misses. In Chinese medicine, anxiety can be due to a number of different factors, like blood deficiency (think dizziness and anemia), stagnation in your liver or blood (think about when you’re so angry you could cry), or a deficiency in the chi of your heart (think heart palpitations, nothing serious but still ruins your day)—just to name a few....

Once I discovered these elements within my chart, I sought their spiritual meaning, realizing through astrology that there seem to be, indeed, clear periods when creative, poetic, and artistic energies are enhanced. I noticed a similar pattern for synchronicity and manifesting, too. My research helped me realize that manifesting seems to happen best when what we want is consistent with, or at least doesn’t detract from, what we are meant to do in our lives at that time....

The painful inspiration for this piece came about a month ago. After indulging in a mere two and a half glasses of wine on a Friday evening—along with plenty of food and water, I might add—I was met with a dreaded hangover come Saturday morning. My eye sockets and cheekbones ached, my head was pounding, and, soon enough, I was experiencing the dreaded, wave-like “I’m definitely going to throw up” sensation....

Patients with anxiety and/or depression are often prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medications, which prevent the reuptake of serotonin, making more serotonin available for your brain. When these medications were originally developed over 30 years ago, it was believed that anxiety and depression were caused by low levels of serotonin1, the “feel good hormone.” It turns out that the mechanisms aren’t quite so binary. Serotonin and its role in brain function are much more nuanced2 than originally thought (and still being worked out)....