The mechanisms that cause migraines are not fully understood, which is one reason why they’re so tough to treat. And many of the current drug regimens are slow to take effect, are not effective at all for up to 40 percent of users, or are designed for related conditions, such as high blood pressure rather than migraines themselves. Another issue: Migraines can recur frequently, making treating them with strong opioids and painkillers concerning and potentially dangerous....

No matter what it is, the message is clear: You’re on their mind. They’re thinking of you. They miss you in some capacity. You feel a cold wave of anxiety wash over you as your mind spins over what you should do next. You don’t want to respond, but you still feel responsible for their emotions—plus, maybe they’ve changed, and the conversation might be different now. According to psychotherapist Nicholas Moran, LMHC: “[Hoovering] is a key characteristic of toxic relationships and manifests in a variety of ways with the focus on attempting to draw a person back in and control them, kind of like a fisher who is fishing or a puppeteer with a puppet....

Let me explain. First of all, there’s chocolate and then there’s “chocolate.” Food manufacturers use the word “chocolate” the same way that magazines plaster the word “SEX” in bold all-caps 92-point font on their covers — because it helps them sell their product. Similarly, companies need only put the word “CHOCOLATE” on their syrup, water, nougat, or breakfast cereal, and consumers are more likely to purchase it. If you’re eating candy, it’s not chocolate....

I’d recently come off a yearlong odyssey healing my Hashimoto’s one lifestyle change at a time, and as part of it had learned the do’s and don’ts of living with my microbiome in mind. I was eating plenty of fiber, dousing my grain bowls in kefir green goddess dressing and kimchi, and washing it all down with homemade kombucha. Small-intestinal bacterial overgrowth is exactly what it sounds like: a type of dysbiosis1, which simply means an imbalance in the trillions of bacteria that take up residence in your gut....

Alcohol always seemed to be my ally, something to get me through the good times and the bad. I associated it with champagne in restaurants, red wine with meals, a cold beer on a hot day with friends in the garden. Today I inhabit a different world, a sober one, and I see the whole business of alcohol consumption differently. Here’s what I think of my erstwhile friend, booze, after almost two years of shunning it in favor of a healthy and happy existence: alcohol erodes your body’s natural ability to cope with difficulties in life, thus causing anxiety....

The following manifestation process relies on archetypes—what Carl Jung described as universal symbols that live in the collective unconscious of a culture and show up again and again in human stories and human life. For manifestation, we will be working with the hero, mystic, and rebel archetypes. As you take one action step toward your goal or dream, the universe will help your dream or goal take two or three more big steps toward you....

We asked sleep and health experts all about the life span of melatonin, and how it should (and should not) be used. Here’s what to know. Bonney notes that the average person’s melatonin levels will start to rise after sunset (assuming limited inputs from other light sources) and peak around 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. If, for some reason, you are trying to fall asleep outside of your peak melatonin window (say, if you’re traveling to a new time zone or working during daylight hours), taking supplemental melatonin tells your body that it’s time for bed, despite what your environmental cues are saying....