Vitamin C plays key roles in immune, cognitive, cardiovascular, and skin health, as well as iron absorption and collagen synthesis.* But since the body can’t produce it spontaneously, we have to seek C out in food sources, and many people do a less-than-stellar job of meeting their daily needs: Almost half of American adults have a vitamin C gap in their diet1, and an estimated 108 million of us have insufficient vitamin C levels, per blood tests....

But there are a few important things to note about this buzzy ingredient, so keep reading to learn more and find out if it’s right for you. Here’s how it works: “Niacinamide Increases production of ceramides and fatty acids, two key components of the skin’s outer protective barrier,” Goldfaden explains. In skin care formulas, you can find niacinamide in two forms: nicotinic acid (also known as niacin) and nicotinamide (also called niacinamide), Goldfaden says....

If your head is already spinning, don’t worry. The realm of retinoids and retinol can be pretty confusing. The bottom line: “Retinol” is a term for an OTC vitamin A compound, and it may very well be your skin’s new best friend. And as it turns out, retinol works hard to get to those retinol receptors. The retinol molecule “is able to penetrate the skin’s surface and activate a variety of cells in the skin,” explains board-certified dermatologist Melanie Palm, M....

You might even immediately identify with the word because you prefer staying in with a good book rather than going out. But those associations tend to be a rather simplistic view of introversion. According to him, one of the easiest ways to spot an introvert is by the way they recharge their social battery. Introverts, he said, prefer to be in minimally stimulating environments and tend to go inward to recharge, while extroverts are re-energized from interacting with others....

To give you a better understanding of what inulin is, how it can be beneficial, and how to get more into your diets, registered dietitians share their insight. More specifically, it’s a prebiotic, soluble fiber, which means it digests slowly and is beneficial for gut health. “Inulin is also added into some prepackaged foods,” registered dietitian Aja Gyimah, MHSc, R.D., tells us, “like bread, snack bars, and cereal, to add more fiber....

According to sex therapist Aliyah Moore, Ph.D., a common misconception about bigender people is that they necessarily must have two genders which are somehow “opposites” on the gender spectrum, but this is not the case for everyone. Bigender is a transgender identity, in that it describes someone whose gender does not align with the one that they were assigned at birth. A bigender person is also, more specifically, nonbinary. This means that their gender identity does not fit neatly into one of the two binary genders of man or woman....

Eloping has almost become an umbrella term, as it could still describe a “runaway” situation between two lovers who want to get married, but it can also be a small destination wedding, a courthouse wedding, or even a spur-of-the-moment wedding. People who elope typically have 20 guests or fewer at their wedding ceremony, if they have any at all, compared to the traditional wedding that may have anywhere from 100 to 300+ guests....