While consulting a physician is always best, the ability to shop contacts online is a convenient (and sometimes more affordable) option to build your stash of contact lenses. It’s true that vision changes are to be expected as you age, but finding the right prescription can reduce eye strain, help you see more clearly, and affect your brain health, too. Keep reading to learn why eye health is so important and to find our picks for the best online contacts....

If you want to boost your physical recovery and mental health at home, a massage chair is a great way to do that. Along with offering the ultimate full-body relaxation, massage chairs are a research-backed1 way to reduce stress and relieve sore muscles. This study even showed massage chairs to be beneficial in decreasing pain caused by arthritis. While you can totally enlist a partner or give yourself a massage, these at-home chairs do the work for you....

To learn more about the best treadmills for walking, we tapped sports and lifestyle chiropractor Sarah Sponaugle. Below, find our picks for the nine best treadmills for walking, along with Sponaugle’s advice on how to choose one, the benefits of owning a treadmill, and what to consider as you shop. We can’t recommend one treadmill that’s best for everyone, but we can help you navigate the many options. If you’re wondering how to choose a treadmill for walking versus running, here are some factors to consider: Horsepower: As we mentioned, some compact treadmills only have the horsepower to support walking and jogging....

To help you choose the best weightlifting shoes for you, we asked a podiatrist and holistic chiropractor for their top picks so you can crush your strength training workouts with confidence. Weightlifting shoes should be sturdy, offer ankle support, and have high traction that prevents shifting as you train. Add it all up and you have something quite different from a long-distance running shoe, which podiatrist Robert Kornfeld highly advises against wearing while lifting....

Despite the vast and impactful benefits of this critical carb, our country is facing an overwhelming deficit: A whopping 95% of American adults and children1 fail to consume enough fiber each day! Introducing mbg’s organic fiber potency+. This USDA-certified organic vegan fiber powder packs a whole lot of GI support in each and every scoop—including 6 grams of functional plant fibers (soluble, insoluble, and prebiotic) from organic legumes (guar bean), veggies (reishi, maitake, and oyster mushrooms), and fruit (green kiwifruit); plus a unique, spore-forming probiotic strain (Bacillus subtilis ATCC122264 as Sporevia™)....

One of the most important (and overlooked) ways to maintain your immunity is actually managing your stress. We get it, though—telling you to simply “chill out” isn’t exactly a solution here. So we teamed up with Healist to show you that, despite gestures broadly at everything, finding balance by dialing down the stress (and dialing up the immunity!) is well within everyone’s reach. But you’re probably more familiar with distress, which is the feeling you get after the death of a loved one, the experience of a financial loss, or a fight with your partner....

In 2022, mbg’s resident astrologers the AstroTwins predict that all eyes will be on the Water Bearer. This meetup is significant because it speaks to how we enact change as a society. How do we grow and create new systems in an organized, methodical way? That is Jupiter-Saturn’s domain. “Philosophical Jupiter opens our minds, and Saturn creates a structure for our thoughts to become tangible actions. And carried on the wings of liberated Aquarius, the winds of revolution are taking flight,” the AstroTwins write of this rare transit....