Hormone imbalances tend to have vague symptoms, making it difficult to diagnose the problem and determine the root cause. By testing your hormone levels, you’ll begin to discover how even a slightly abnormal level can contribute to how you feel. At-home hormone testing allows consumers to take their health into their own hands. With this attainable option, test kits are purchased online, administered in your own home, and sent directly to a lab for results....

How do you choose your organic skin-care products and what sort of things you should avoid? Based on reliable data from medical journals. When you strip the skin of too much, it provides feedback to the sebaceous glands that the skin does not have enough oil and kicks them into overdrive, exacerbating the problem. Instead, provide the skin with gentle exfoliation and nourish it with the right balance of oils, training the sebaceous glands to settle down and make less sebum....

Research is still being done to better understand individuals who demonstrate these traits and to help others learn how best to interact with them, so to clearly discern fact from fiction, we reached out to psychologists and personality researchers to explain the Dark Triad, identify associated traits, and suggest ways to interact and cope with these dark personalities. “The dark triad traits share a common core of antagonism (or low agreeableness),” says Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Ph....

As an herbalist and manifestation guide, beauty has always been an inside job for me. It’s in one’s most natural and authentic states that I find women (and men) beyond stunning. The large Turkish nose, the indented gap in the teeth, the untouched hair after one has been swimming in the ocean all day. However, healthiness is also a radiant form of beauty, one that is so subliminal we can hardly put our finger on it: the glowing skin, bright aura, and unexplainable happiness and confidence one has when they are in harmony....

Extreme anxiety about merging money falls into one of two scenarios: You have emotional baggage, or there are trust issues present. For the latter, “Do you not trust them, or rather, not trust their spending? Have they shown behaviors in the past that show they might not be great with money? It might be hard to come to terms with these questions, but if you don’t trust them, you need to address that,” she says—noting that just because you don’t agree with how your partner spends money, it doesn’t necessarily speak to something more sinister....

The one ingredient in this drool-worthy dish that really steals the show is our favorite summertime staple—the blueberry. Blueberries make an easy, tasty, and nutritious addition to your favorite meals and recipes. In a 1-cup serving, you get crave-worthy flavor and beneficial vitamins and minerals, including four essential nutrients and phytonutrients. Additionally, there’s a growing body of evidence1 examining how blueberries can be a part of eating patterns that support brain health, especially as part of an overall healthy lifestyle....

Scorpio is the eighth sign of the zodiac, symbolized by the Scorpion. It’s a water sign ruled by the planet Pluto in modern astrology (and Mars in ancient astrology), and its modality is fixed. Scorpio is known to be deep, mysterious, and intense. As astrologer Jennifer Racioppi tells mbg, these two signs do really well together, “assuming the rest of their charts are compatible.” In terms of sun sign compatibility, though, she says that the combination of earth and water “creates a really healing mix....