His documentary Fat, Sick And Nearly Dead tells the story of how he lost almost 100 pounds and healed his autoimmune disease by following a 60-day juice fast. MBG: What have you been up to since the success of Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead? JC: We’ve built a robust online community at www.RebootwithJoe.com that provides information, recipes, juicing and eating plans, support and entertainment to hundreds of thousands of people who want to reclaim their health and vitality, as Phil and I did in the movie....

And as Ashley Leavy, founder and educational director of the Love and Light School of Crystal Therapy, previously explained to mbg, birthstones also have roots in Western astrology and Ayurveda. In fact, she says, the reason the National Association of Jewelers standardized all the American birthstones just over 100 years ago was that so many different traditions had different birthstone options for each month. Nowadays, birthstones remain popular as a go-to gift option for birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and more....

Here’s what you need to know about kelp, its health benefits, and how to take it as a supplement. Kelp plays an important role in the underwater ecosystem. Kelp forests, which grow primarily on the Pacific Coast, provide food and shelter for thousands of fish and marine mammal species. Kelp is also one of the fastest-growing plants on earth and can grow as much as 300 feet in a single year, meaning it can feed and shelter a lot of fish....

This style of dating sounds devastatingly romantic, but when it’s this sugarcoated, it’s often not actually an accurate representation of love. If you’ve recently met someone and it mirrors this experience, it can seem like a dream come true instead of what it really is: limerence. At first glance, limerence doesn’t sound all that different from falling in love. In fact, it doesn’t sound negative at all to be that wowed by someone and adore them wholeheartedly....

Unfortunately, when we look inside many sustainable bottles, we find something not-so-friendly: liquid plastics. And while it may be easy to immediately demonize this increasingly talked-about ingredient, we can’t be so quick to judge. To follow, a bit more information on what liquid plastics are and what you can do to contribute to a plastic-free future—or at least something close. In ingredient lists, some types of liquid plastics may end in -cone or -siloxane....

But flipping over the package revealed that this seemingly innocent cookie had 26 grams of total carbs. What gives? Here, we asked some nutrition experts for their thoughts on net carbs, whether it ever makes sense to count them (as opposed to total carbs), and what might be more important to focus your attention on while sticking to a low-carb diet. So, depending on who you ask, you might get a slightly different definition on how net carbs are actually calculated....

A new study1 published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy offers some clues as to what’s going on with your libido: Apparently women who have difficulties with sexual desire tend to have stronger sexual concordance, meaning their mental and genital arousal levels generally tend to align. All of the women also completed a questionnaire to determine their sexual functioning, which refers to a person’s ability to experience sexual desire, get aroused, lubricate, have an orgasm, and engage in pleasurable, pain-free sex....