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9 Ways to Stay Well on Your Summer Travels, Flying Adventures and Road Trips

How to avoid travel ills no matter where you roam? Think immunity, as in keeping your body – and your gut – fortified so it’s less susceptible to bugs – and better equipped to fight them off should one try to slow you down. A compromised or unbalanced gut sets you up for vacation-disrupting ills like indigestion, bloating, diarrhea, constipation – none of which you want to be dealing with while you’re trying to unwind and enjoy yourself.

How to Avoid Toxins in Your Cookware

The best rule of thumb when it comes to cookware may be this: look for materials that have been proven safe and effective over hundreds - if not thousands - of years. This means choosing pots and pans made of cast iron, stainless steel, glass, enamel, or ceramic.

8 Timely Tips to Stay Healthy in Summer’s Heat

Go easy on yourself when summer temperatures climb and the heat rolls in. Wear light-colored clothes, hats and sunglasses and drink plenty of liquids. What else can we do to avoid temperature-related ills? Check out my timely tips to help get you through the heat to come.

9 Essential Ways to Emerge from the COVID Cave – and into Post Pandemic Life

Fast and Effective Fixes for the 3 Most Common Tech Injuries

For the last 16 or so months, all those hundreds of daily, small postural compromises we’ve unconsciously made while being tethered to computers and devices, have taken a toll. These folded over, rolled and forward-jutting body shapes we’ve assumed —sometimes for hours at a time—got repeated over and over, until they started pulling millions of spines out of alignment. The result? Structural issues like back pain and hip imbalances which have triggered problems body-wide – and hardly the recipe for a productive day at the (home) office.

10 Frequently Asked Questions on CBD Use

Not long ago, it seemed like few people in the States had ever heard of cannabidiol, or CBD, much less knew what to do with it. And those who were vaguely familiar often confused it with the stuff that gets you high. Fast forward five or so years and today, CBD is everywhere, tucked inside everything from oils, tinctures and pills to candies, smoothies, bath bombs and beauty creams. Safe to say, CBD is a ‘thing.’

7 Ways Laughter Makes Staying Healthy Easier

Excerpt: Just like eating your veggies and getting good rest and daily exercise, adding frequent doses of laughter to the mix is an easy and pleasurable way to support the health of your heart and brain, while also lightening some of life’s darker moments. Plus, it’s safer than any Big Pharma pill-of-the-moment. Over the years, I’ve seen laughter in action in my practice on an almost daily basis -- patients with a good sense of humor tend to heal better and faster than those who don’t.

Understanding Belly Fat

As a dietitian and trainer, I’ve met people time and time again who have this same lamentation about their midsection. Why does fat seem to gravitate there so easily? What is it about our middles that makes that fat so stubborn and hard to lose? And how can we see some changes?

Best Foods to Reduce Skin Inflammation

Inflammation can be a hidden factor in your overall health, as you cannot see or feel the effects until they are present enough to cause lasting issues. It is a slow process that can cause damage to a wide range of elements such as tissues, collagen and joints. Unfortunately, by the time you discover chronic inflammation it is usually too late.

11 Tips on How to Enjoy Sunshine Responsibly

Beyond just simply being drawn to the sun – its light, its warmth, the everything-will-be-OK vibe it brings – we actually need sunshine. Much like plants which harness the sun's rays through photosynthesis, our bodies use sunlight to help the skin produce the vitamin D it needs to build bones, tame inflammation, boost the immune system and protect against cancer.

What Your Thyroid Test Results Really Mean

6 Common Drugs Your Body Needs to Try Cut Ties With

Contrary to what you might think, I’m not against medications, but I am against their overuse – and we are a nation of over-users. Lots of people think pills are harmless: they may do some good, and well, the doc said to take an Advil and call him in the morning, so why not? I’ll tell you why not. Drugs, be they prescription or over-the-counter, unbalance the system by design.

How to Perfect Your Work From Home Setup

The COVID-19 pandemic has made working from home an unplanned requirement for millions of workers throughout the world. Although many are appreciative of their newfound WFH freedom and its advantages, many people are realizing their makeshift home offices are not conducive for prolonged work and are just not suitable for long term use.

Understanding the COVID Vaccines

Three functional-medicine doctors answer key questions about the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.

18 Ways Kindness Can Save Your Life and Change It For the Better

While kindness may have seemed in short supply during the upheaval of the past few years, now is the perfect time to reconnect with the idea of sharing kindness that only you can give. Not only will it make others feel better, it will also support your own physical and mental well-being. In other words, everybody wins!

How to Treat Long-Haul COVID

COVID-19 is leaving many with a disturbing array of chronic symptoms. These functional-medicine strategies can help.

What Makes a Good Life?

What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone.

5 Benefits of Making Music Your Medicine

Music has the power to heal, to encourage feelings of well-being and to soothe a stressed-out mind – making it the perfect elixir for our current moment. It’s also one of the healthiest ways I know to self-medicate and I encourage everyone to dose up frequently.

The Sober-Curious Movement

Even if you don’t want to give up drinking entirely, reexamining your relationship to alcohol can have big benefits for your health.

7 Ways to Experience More Joy

Two longtime meditation practitioners share their principles for building more joy into your daily life.

11 Healthful Tips to Get 2021 Started in the Right Direction

Get this New Year started out right with Dr. Lipman's top health tips to get started right now.

Let 2020’s Lessons Make 2021 Your New Year of Resilience

2020 is not an easy time to look back on. For many of us, anxiety, isolation and loss were frequent companions. But, if nothing else, 2020 served up countless lessons, which, had there been no pandemic, might have taken a lifetime to learn. Talk about a learning curve!

Our Top 11 Most Helpful Blogs of 2020

Our top 11 blogs of 2020 to help you lead a well balanced healthy life in 2021.

12 Podcasts and Books to Inspire Wellness in 2021

: If nothing else, all these pandemic months have shown us all too clearly just how important health really is, driving the point home in no uncertain terms. Yes, be it physical, mental or emotional, your health truly is everything, and self-care is the way forward for all of us in 2021 and beyond. To inspire your wellness journey for the months ahead, to follow are a few of my favorite podcasts and books to keep you motivated.