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Deep dive into the science behind your wellness.

Breathing Easy: How to Safeguard Yourself Against Air Pollution and Improve Air Quality
Wellness

Breathing Easy: How to Safeguard Yourself Against Air Pollution and Improve Air Quality

Air pollution poses a significant threat to our health and the environment. With increasing industrialization and urbanization, it's crucial to understand the impact of air pollution on our well-b...

Your Life While You Were Sleeping
Wellness

Your Life While You Were Sleeping

The average human is alive for nearly 80 years and of those years, they will spend 26 years sleeping and an additional 7 years trying to fall asleep. However, the amount of sleep we get each night ...

If You Think It’s Too Late to Start Yoga, Think Again
Fitness

If You Think It’s Too Late to Start Yoga, Think Again

If you’re looking for a way to become more active, practicing yoga is an excellent place to start. While scientific research is limited, early evidence seems to confirm that there are a variety of ...

Live like a Caveman to Get Better Sleep
Wellness

Live like a Caveman to Get Better Sleep

Although we have luxurious 500 thread count sheets, noise machines, and beds with adjustable comfort levels, studies show Americans struggle to get a good night’s sleep now more than our caveman an...

Retirement During COVID: How 3 Women Are Making the Best of their New Freedom
Wellness

Retirement During COVID: How 3 Women Are Making the Best of their New Freedom

An estimated excess of 2.6 million people retired during the coronavirus pandemic, according to Miguel Faria-E-Castro, a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Faria-E-Castro ...

Why Does Grandpa Nap so Much?
Science

Why Does Grandpa Nap so Much?

You might seem concerned when grandpa falls asleep in the middle of the day, but it’s perfectly normal and just one of the many ways your body changes as you get older. Although young people try to...

Why do I Wake Up at 2am Every Night?
Wellness

Why do I Wake Up at 2am Every Night?

Getting enough sleep is extremely important for optimal health, yet about ⅓ of adults claim they regularly experience symptoms of insomnia. Plus, 10% of those adults reported having insomnia so sev...

Screen Time: When To Put Down Your Device
Wellness

Screen Time: When To Put Down Your Device

We’re willing to bet you know exactly where your phone is right now–chances are you’re using it to read this blog. We spend more time on our devices to work, communicate, and enjoy downtime more th...

How to Make the Most of Your Empty Nest
Wellness

How to Make the Most of Your Empty Nest

When you have children, one day you’re feeding them in a high chair and the next thing you know you’re getting ready to send them off to college. When the time comes for your last or only child to ...

How to Support Your Mental Health the Right Way Post-Pandemic
Wellness

How to Support Your Mental Health the Right Way Post-Pandemic

Within the first year, 25% more people began experiencing anxiety and depression worldwide as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the World Health Organization. Although life has beg...

The Ancient (Yet Highly Reliable) Indicator of Health
Wellness

The Ancient (Yet Highly Reliable) Indicator of Health

Nearly every ancient culture used feces’ shape, size, and texture to provide health diagnoses before modern medicine existed. Today, many people get squeamish and embarrassed to talk about their bo...

How to Increase Your Motivation in 5 Seconds
Wellness

How to Increase Your Motivation in 5 Seconds

We’ve all been there. You plan to go to a workout class after work or you hype yourself up to finally speak up during your next group meeting, but when the time comes to do it, your motivation seem...

10 Habits for a Healthy Retirement
Wellness

10 Habits for a Healthy Retirement

Many people count down the years until they’re able to retire. After years of hard work, retirement is a welcome change of pace. However, idle hands can make for unhealthy habits. When you’re used ...

How Aging is Viewed In Different Cultures
Wellness

How Aging is Viewed In Different Cultures

When we’re younger, we can’t wait to be older. But when we’re older, we wish we were younger. Part of the human condition, especially in western cultures, is wishing for what we don’t have and then...

What Works to Combat Premature Skin Aging, and What Doesn't
Science

What Works to Combat Premature Skin Aging, and What Doesn't

“These commercial products, most of them creams, sit for months or even years on drug store shelves, and are full of chemicals that you’ve never heard of.”

How Taking Care of Your Joint Health Can Improve Your Quality of Life
Wellness

How Taking Care of Your Joint Health Can Improve Your Quality of Life

Your joints are essential for independent movement, but they impact more than just the physical aspects of your life. When the body isn’t able to move comfortably, mental health, sleep, and energy...

How To Manage Stress After 45
Wellness

How To Manage Stress After 45

Stress arises for many different reasons throughout the course of a person’s life. Whether it’s due to taking the SAT test, getting married, navigating finances, or contemplating a career change, i...

7 Secrets to Borrow from People Who Live the Longest (Blue Zone Hacks)
Wellness

7 Secrets to Borrow from People Who Live the Longest (Blue Zone Hacks)

You can’t live forever, but you can certainly live for longer. With so many things to do, places to go, and people to spend time with, we all want to have as much time as we can on this Earth.

6 Steps to Discourage Digestive Problems As You Age
Wellness

6 Steps to Discourage Digestive Problems As You Age

It is a fact of life that our bodies and their processes change over the course of our lives. As we begin to experience the effects of aging, we might spend more nights in and fewer days running o...

15 Tricks for Instant Energy Without Caffeine
Wellness

15 Tricks for Instant Energy Without Caffeine

It’s 3:00 pm. You’re starting to feel sluggish, and your day is far from over. Your first thought may be to make a cup of coffee or crack open a can of soda for an energy boost, but there are down...

Why Your Inflammatory Diet May Not Be Working
Wellness

Why Your Inflammatory Diet May Not Be Working

While it’s critical to eliminate inflammatory foods when on an anti-inflammatory diet, it’s equally as important to add certain foods to help encourage a normal inflammatory response. Here are the...

7 Steps to Better Heart Health
Wellness

7 Steps to Better Heart Health

One of the five vital organs in the human body, the heart’s job is to pump blood through the circulatory system, providing oxygen and nutrients to the other organs and carrying away waste.