We asked home health and efficiency experts all about how to find a safe, eco-friendly electric fireplace that will warm you up—without warming up the planet. Here are their criteria and six top picks to cozy up to. “In general, electric fireplaces are a clean heating alternative,” she explains. “Typically, they produce almost no pollutants. In comparison, gas and wood-burning fireplaces produce combustion and gases and fumes, which are pollutants to indoor and outdoor air1....

Ready to snooze in your own personal safe, sustainable cocoon? Read on for the six best organic comforters available right now. In the U.S., organic crops are grown in soil that has not been treated with synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or other prohibited substances within the last three years. And organically grown animals were raised in “living conditions accommodating their natural behaviors (like the ability to graze on pasture), fed 100% organic feed and forage, and not administered antibiotics or hormones,” according to the USDA1....

While “nesting” at home is all the rage, too much of any good thing can become bad. Today, as I find myself growing lazier by the second as my impulse to stay in as the weather gets chilly and it starts to get dark earlier. The goal of a well-balanced home is to add a little motivation & focus where you need it, rather than turn your home into a circus....

Ready to learn more about these probiotic perks? We dialed up a few experts to answer some of the top-searched questions people have on the internet, and reveal exactly what taking probiotics can do for your total well-being. Many people think about bacteria in terms of germs that make you sick. But probiotics are good bacteria that help support health, especially in the digestive tract.* These friendly bugs are key for maintaining the gut microbiome....

Beyond their plump golden interior, the stem4 and peel (and sometimes leaves) of pineapple plants are also praised for their anti-inflammatory5 and immune-supporting6 abilities. That’s because they contain bromelain, a type of digestive enzyme derived from pineapple juice, peel, and stem. Among its multiple uses, bromelain’s5 therapeutic benefits expand from treating osteoarthritis7 and cardiovascular disease8 to reducing oxidative stress and inflammation9. We can all agree that food is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal when it comes to combating inflammation....

It turns out that even folks with an MTHFR gene variant who are more prone to methylation challenges, aka inefficiencies, can go decades (or even a lifetime) without realizing they have an MTHFR enzyme that operates suboptimally. “We can go a lot of years and not notice a lot of effects or issues. We might notice, ‘Oh, I have trouble with this,’ or ‘I feel down sometimes’—but who doesn’t, right? The signs are vague enough because they affect so many systems that it would be hard to say [suboptimal methylation] is the one cause—it’s usually multifactorial,” Carnahan explains....

Psychiatrist Carl Jung was the first to come up with the concepts of “introvert” and “extrovert,” though he didn’t give a name for those in the middle of these two personality types—that was Kimball Young in the 1920s. “Almost all of us are ambiverts to some degree,” psychotherapist Ken Page, LCSW, tells mbg. All of us are located somewhere along the spectrum between introversion and extroversion, meaning we do have access to both sets of personality traits in varying degrees and forms....