But how, specifically, are you supporting your gut health? Many consider probiotics and fermented foods to be the pinnacle of GI health, but those of us who have struggled with digestive issues, mood, and a suboptimal immune response know firsthand that promoting a healthy gut takes more effort and intention than drinking a daily kombucha. Enter: fiber. According to a 2021 Nutrients review, dietary fiber provides multiple sources of fuel and nourishment for fermentation reactions via specific species of beneficial gut microbes, and increasing your fiber intake helps expand the population and diversity1 of these good bugs....

No, a dry scalp is no small annoyance. And while the face and body tend to get most of our skin care attention, the scalp’s skin woes should be attended to with the same diligence. So now you may also be wondering how best to deal with it. So what’s someone enduring a dry scalp to do? You have options, several, in fact. Here, the best tips to relieve dry scalps: You have body oils, which tend to be a bit thicker and able to cover a larger surface area....

The foods you eat, as well as the foods you choose not to eat, are a critical part of healing your adrenals and restoring hormonal balance. Your diet will make the task of healing adrenal fatigue either much easier or much more difficult, depending on the choices you make. So which are the best foods for supporting your adrenals? Here are the superfoods that deliver many of the key building blocks that your adrenals need: I like to have liver twice a week....

And again, that’s if your doctor calls for any blood work at all. I actually went from age 25 to 30 with zero labs from my general practitioner, even though I have a family history of heart disease and high cholesterol. So then the question becomes: What’s a happy medium between bare-bones and borderline excessive lab testing? If you’re seriously proactive about optimizing your health and preventing issues, what are the key tests to consider getting done semi-regularly that pretty much any doctor can order and that will most likely be covered by insurance?...

With how prevalent affairs are today, it’s important to understand why they happen on the emotional level—because if we can understand the deeper reasons behind why people have affairs, we may be better able to proactively protect our relationships from the potential fall. Not all couples survive (or should) the devastating impact of an affair. This is especially true for those who deem that the relationship isn’t worth the tremendous effort required to grieve, transform, and heal the trust....

This can certainly be a strength—but other times, intuitive empaths may find their abilities to be a weakness. Here’s why, plus signs of an intuitive empath and how to thrive as one. An intuitive empath is someone who connects to the energy and emotions around them through their intuition, which is particularly strong. “So it’s basically a sixth sense,” explains psychotherapist Annette Nuñez, Ph.D., LMFT. “And it really takes practice in order to be in tune with what’s going on for them in their internal body, and not logically overanalyzing it,” she adds....

It turns out, you might just be setting unrealistic goals for yourself. If you tend to snooze your alarm clock, beg for five more minutes of sleep, and not want to talk to anyone until you’ve had your first cup of coffee, well, you just may not be a morning person. But that’s OK! “Interestingly, they’re all in various geographical settings,” Vora comments, “but all seem to have a community where you may hang out by the fire after sunset, eat dinner, dance, sing, maybe make love, and then it’s lights out because historically, it’s not safe for humans to be out in the dark....