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How AI Is Changing Health and Fitness

Health and fitness experts share their insights, concerns, and hopes for artificial intelligence.

What You Need to Know About the Male Pelvic Floor

Some of the most vexing health problems for men — including urological, reproductive, and orthopedic issues — can be traced to pelvic-floor dysfunction. Here’s how to keep this foundational set of muscles strong and healthy.

The Many Benefits of Spontaneity — and How to Cultivate More of It

It’s easy to sabotage our efforts by trying too hard, especially when we really want something. The Chinese concept of wu-wei suggests the alternative approach of being in the moment.

How Accurate are Wearables?

A guide to accuracy of consumer wearables.

14 Ways Embracing Optimism Enhances Health and Longevity

Embracing optimism helps you to become more resilient, engaged, connected, and just plain happier. What all that adds up to is being able to stay buoyant, even in tumultuous times. Sure, it also helps you better deal with the ‘now,’ but it more importantly also supports your health and longevity over the long haul. Whatever your reasons for embracing it, keep in mind, optimism is not about ignoring life’s difficulties. It’s about training your mind to see opportunities, cultivate joy, and light your way towards a brighter future.

What You Should Know About the Vaginal Microbiome

When we hear the word 'microbiome,' we often think of the gut — but there’s another important ecosystem that deserves attention: the vaginal microbiome. Learn all about it and how it impacts your health here.

Beating Jetlag

Performing with timezone changes

8 Ways Morning Sunlight Effortlessly Boosts Health Head to Toe

More than simply a pleasant visual reminder that a new day has begun, morning light delivers a host of benefits that help enhance both your physical and mental health, with minimal effort on your part. (Think no pain, much gain.) In effect, morning sunlight is nature’s alarm clock that acts as a daily, full-body reset. Recent studies continue to shed light on how early-day sun exposure positively influences multiple bodily systems and functions, from hormone regulation and circadian rhythm to digestion and immunity, so I urge you to make a little space to let the sun shine in every day.

The Smoking Gun: Environmental Chemicals

Think your immune system’s got your back no matter what? Think again! Check out this excerpt from "Detoxify: The Everyday Toxins Harming Your Immune System and How to Defend Against Them", Dr. Aly Cohen's new book where she shows you how everyday chemicals could be messing with your health—and how to fight back with a simple, empowering 21-day plan.

The Seven Central Nodes of Functional Medicine: Decoding Symptoms for Lasting Wellness

The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) has developed a framework of seven central nodes to identify imbalances, uncover root causes, and restore the body’s natural equilibrium. You can think of these nodes as key pillars that support your overall health. Here's a rundown:

How Making Time for Fun Can Recharge Your Life!

When was the last time you cut loose and had true fun — for real? Learn why fun is so good for your health and how to find your way back to whatever brings you joy.

The Silent Saboteurs: How Total Toxic Burden and Endocrine Disruptors Hijack Your Hormones

One of the most insidious contributors to the disruption of our well-being is the concept of total toxic burden, with a spotlight on the pesky players known as endocrine disruptors. Learn more here.

Acetyl-L-carnitine Puts Better Brain Health, Mood and Energy on Your Agenda

As the chemical first cousin of L-carnitine, which you’ve probably heard of, acetyl-L-carnitine (ALC) has been steadily building up a track record of research that’s making the health and longevity world stand up and take notice. While both forms of carnitine are intimately bound up in the body’s production of energy inside the cell’s powerplants, the mitochondria, the acetyl version is better absorbed in supplement form and has been found to have more significant effects “above the neck,” on cognitive and mental health especially. So, if you’re interested in upgrading and possibly extending your healthspan and lifespan (carnitine levels decline with age!) it’s time to get to know ALC better.

How Chemicals are Making Us Fat and Sick – and 14 Tips to Combat Them

Chemically speaking, the world we’re living in is something of a minefield. Toxic man-made chemicals are everywhere, in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the indoor and outdoor environments we inhabit. They are so pervasive that it’s essential that you protect yourself from the onslaught, minimize your exposure and steer clear of as many of them as you possibly can. Why make the effort? Because the volume of toxic chemicals we’re dealing with daily are laying siege to our bodies, and particularly to our metabolic health, making millions of us fatter and sicker than any generation that’s gone before.

How Many Microplastic and Nanoplastic Particles Are in a Bottle of Water?

Higher than previously estimated, according to a recent study. Here's why that matters.

5 Ways to Practice Humility

A Soto Zen teacher on how humility can create connection — with others and yourself.

5 Ways to Embrace Continuous Learning in Your Daily Life

Life Time experts reveal their strategies for cultivating curiosity and fostering ongoing personal growth.

Reader’s Choice: 13 Most Popular Dr. Lipman Posts of 2024

Over the past twelve months on the blog, we’ve covered a lot of longevity-focused and anti-aging ground! Each post has been about exploring compelling health and longevity pathways and connecting with readers. Some articles emerged as clear favorites, sometimes to my surprise. What made it to the top of the anti-aging must-read list? Posts on maintaining brain health, heart health and managing metabolism ranked high, while posts on red light therapy and biohacking followed close behind. It’s tough for me to pick personal favorites, so I’ve left it to the readers to decide – and here are their 13 top choices for 2024. Enjoy!

Build a Better Brain

Fitness is more than just losing weight and toning up — it's a whole-body pursuit, one that includes tending to the health of one of your most important organs: the brain.

Sunshine Deficiency: Why Your Mood Might Be Hibernating This Winter

5 Ways to Love Deeply and Well

Learning to love well might be the most important thing we can do for our health and well-being.

9 Essential Stress Reduction Tips and Techniques for High Anxiety Times

Be it situational or chronic, we all know that stress brings with it some significant, health-torpedoing downsides, making our approach to how we manage stress more mission critical than ever. Managing stress well starts with reminding yourself there are many ways to diffuse it, and being conscious of all we can do to release stress quickly and in healthy ways. Though avoiding stress altogether is virtually impossible, the key to doing it well is to pack your mental health toolbox with as many stress-busting techniques as possible, so you can tap into them whenever you feel stress levels start to rise.

10 Ways to Mind Your Mental Health and Heart Connection

By now, regular visits to our primary care doc have made most of us aware of the obvious cardiovascular disease risk factors, things like high Apolipoprotein B, high blood pressure, high blood sugar. But what often gets ignored is our mental health which, the most recent research is making clear, is a major part of the heart disease story and indeed may be what’s helping make the conventional risk factors so toxic in the first place. Mental health issues can drive up heart risk directly, as is the case with blood pressure, or indirectly, when they give rise to bad lifestyle choices which eat away at heart health in different ways.

5 Signs You May Need a Recovery Day

Has your fitness performance stalled? Are you feeling irritable? Those are just two of the signs that your body may need an exercise break.