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How To Calculate Your Ideal HRV & 8 Ways To Get Closer To It What if there was a way to know how prepared your body was to do a tough workout, solve a complex problem, or get through a long workday? Turns out, there is: your heart rate variability (HRV) is a real-time health report that’s constantly at your disposal. While it’s tempting to compare your HRV to someone else’s, the metric is highly personal and influenced by factors like genetics, age, and even pregnancy or menstruation status. Jus…
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What Van Life Taught One Couple About The Importance Of Nature & Disconnection It’s safe to say a lot of us have dreamed of packing up our lives and hitting the road for a while. Well, Edden Ram (@eddenram) and his partner actually did it. After building a top-of-the-line van to sell, they decided to take it for a test drive across America to live the simple life for a few weeks. Along the way, they picked up some valuable lessons on the importance of disconnecting and living with a light footpr…
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Satisfying Ways To Eat For A Longer Life, From A Healthspan-Focused MD Aging is something to celebrate. The wisdom, life experience, and compassion accumulated through the years are all wonderful. But the slowing down and losing strength? Not so much. Thankfully, according to precision medicine doctor Florence Comite, M.D., these common side effects of getting older can be avoided. “Aging is inevitable. But getting sick is not to me. With the right tools, you can actually stop biological aging a…
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What To Expect When You Hire A Health Coach, From Intro Call To Final Session Setting a health goal and achieving a health goal are two very different things. Even the most disciplined among us have “failed” a healthy pursuit at one point or another—either because we lacked the time or resources to complete it or it just wasn’t a fit for us to begin with. Zero shame either way.It’s the job of a health coach to help people set achievable goals and accomplish them through small, sustainable change…
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Why Women Have Different Sleep Needs Than Men + What To Do About It As any woman whose been kept awake by the steady snooze of a male bed partner can attest, sleep differences between the sexes are all too real. Science confirms that women and men do have vastly different sleep needs and challenges, a divergence that begins as early as puberty. Why women have different sleep needs than men Last fall, mbg’s vice president of scientific affairs, Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., RDN, unpacked some reas…
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4 Simple Ways To Tune Out Distractions & Build Your “Focus Muscles” Daily It’s telling that the optimal recommended video length on TikTok is between 21 and 34 seconds. These days, that’s about how long our attention spans tend to last.Our constant task-switching is—unsurprisingly—not so great for our brains. “Switching back and forth between tasks is burning up the brain’s primary fuel source, which is oxygenated glucose. The brain has to ‘travel a path’ to go from one task to another, which us…
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A Longevity MD’s Top 3 Nonnegotiables For Optimal Health Span Want to live an active, engaged life into your 90s and beyond? Florence Comite, M.D., wants to help. The precision medicine doctor specializes in individual protocols for reversing disorders of aging and boosting life span. With a triple appointment in endocrinology and reproductive endocrinology, she’s also an expert on how hormones impact the longevity equation. We were curious: What does a healthy aging expert wish she had started…
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This Cozy Home In The Forests Of France Is Natural Design At Its Best When interior decorator Céline Alata (@FrenchyFancy) returns home to the country from the hustle and bustle of nearby Bordeaux, she wants to feel enveloped by the surrounding forest. This sense of retreat is clear throughout her cozy space, which is dotted with unexpected relics from the natural world beyond. Here’s how Alata, her partner, and her two sons have crafted a home that feels nourishing, adventurous, and worldly—whi…
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How To Use Acupressure Mats To Relieve Back Pain, Headaches, & More People who suffer from back or neck pain will do a lot of things to find relief—including, it seems, lie on a bed of nails. Acupressure mats are an increasingly popular (albeit somewhat painful) tool for soothing muscle pain and promoting relaxation. Here, a physical therapist and acupuncturist explain the anecdotal benefits of acupressure mats and share how to properly use the unique pain relievers. What is an acupressure mat?…
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The Data Is In: This Supplement Makes It A Breeze To Get A High Sleep Score While you don’t need a watch or ring to tell you when you got a great night’s rest, sleep technology can give you a more detailed glimpse at your sleep quality and how it changes over time. By measuring variables like heart rate, movement, and body temperature, these tools estimate how much time is spent in deeper sleep stages like REM sleep and slow-wave sleep each night. They also give wearers a sense of how lifestyle…
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Healthy Planet, Healthy You: September 2023 Climate News To Know Our series Healthy Planet, Healthy You explores just how tightly human health and environmental health are intertwined—for better and for worse. Each month, we’ll share the latest news on how nature can rejuvenate us on one hand and damage our health when it’s not cared for on the other. We’ll end with timely tips and tools to help you care for your environment so it can care for you. Air pollution might harm women’s reproductive h…
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