Fortunately, there are plenty of expert-backed ways to sleep through the entire night without waking up. Wake-ups generally take place during light sleep, or the second of the four phases of sleep when the body’s core temperature starts to rise, explains sleep expert Michael J. Breus, Ph.D. Unlike in deeper sleep stages like REM sleep, the brain can easily be awakened during light sleep. But what causes these middle-of-the-night awakenings? “Sometimes simply going through a stressful time can cause people to wake in the middle of the night,” says Teitelbaum....

When inflammation isn’t managed and becomes chronic, it wreaks havoc on the body, both inside and out, often making you feel and look tired and “washed out". When trying to calm inflammation, it’s vital that you give your body the absolute best tools to work with: Eat plenty of organic vegetables, quality proteins, healthy fats, and supplementing with a daily dose of collagen.* Poor gut health, on the other hand, leads to stomach lining permeability where particles can leak into the rest of the body, which then triggers inflammation in the body....

I’m brown, and nearly everything about my world and my lived experiences is affected by my brownness. It affects how people talk to me, how much teachers have paid attention to me, how safe or alone I feel when I walk into a public space or a meeting room or a yoga studio, who’s willing to date me. For black people, it affects your likeliness to get hired, your ability to move into certain neighborhoods, how much doctors will pay attention to your pain1, and how police will treat you....

But somewhere along the line, especially in the last year or so, I began to question this. Do I actually even want kids? Now, here I am at 32, almost 33, and a year into my marriage. As the so-called biological clock ticks, I feel that pressure even more. Sure, more and more women are having kids at an older age. But with that comes risks. Plus, I don’t want to struggle to keep up with my kids or not be able to retire until I’m 70 because my kids just graduated college....

Here, five health professionals demystify the purported benefits and risks of urotherapy, and whether or not this practice has merit in the modern world. In other words, could drinking pee be healthy?It seems to have originated in Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine. “Urine therapy has been used in ancient times as a healing tonic for infections and an antidote to poison,” says Amy Shah, M.D., a functional medicine doctor trained in Ayurvedic medicine....

Although therapy and coaching might come up in the same conversation, there are important key factors to consider before deciding whether to work with a coach or therapist. “The processes life coaches use with their clients depends heavily upon the niche they choose (relationship, career, leadership, etc.) and may involve the use of a variety of tools & exercises depending on the niche and coach,” Samuel Gozo, ACC, MCPC, a master certified professional coach and owner of Integrative Clarity Coaching, tells mbg....

“While it can maybe help people fall asleep, it disturbs sleep—especially in the second part of the night. It’s not an effective sleep aid to turn to,” Fiona Baker, Ph.D., the director of the Human Sleep Research Program at SRI International, says of alcohol. That’s because as alcohol gets metabolized in the night, it disrupts essential deep sleep stages like REM sleep1. Baker adds that it can also increase body temperature and heart rate, contribute to inadequate hydration, and lead us to need to use the bathroom—all things that will further disrupt sleep quality....