Your body is the machine that will carry you through life. If you are in perfect health, you should hardly feel your body at all. There should be no pains or discomfort. Your appetite should be good. You should wake in the morning cheerful and refreshed, full of energy for the day’s activities. And you should go to bed at night, tired, perhaps, but quickly dropping off to sleep.
Eat right, exercise, and visit a doctor at regular intervals, at least once a year. By following simple and sensible rues of good health, you can maintain a healthy lifestyle and get more out of life.
There are some logical things we know to be true: working out is tiring. And being tired helps you fall asleep. But exercise before bed can sometimes have the opposite effect. I have personal experience with this: At one point I was attending a kickboxing class after work at least two nights a week. They were the kind of sessions where you […]
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Alcohol isn’t going anywhere. The Latest According to IWSR, 70% of US Gen Z adults drank alcohol in the past six months, up from 46% in 2023. Major markets, including the UK, Australia, and India, are seeing similar upticks. Soberish As wellness spending climbs, Gen Z is more likely than older cohorts to visit bars, try new […]
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Imagine someone who is suffering from migraine: If film or television depictions wield any influence here, then you’re seeing a woman squeezing her temples and frowning. Her eyes are locked shut. That representation is narrow enough to perturb researchers in headache medicine. Advances in migraine research have proven that the condition—and the ways it can present in […]
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Even if you spend the entire night sleeping on your back, (the most doctor-approved sleeping position), you probably wake up feeling a little creaky and stiff. Any prolonged time you spend being sedentary can make you feel that way, sleeping included. That’s why it’s good for your body to have a short morning stretch routine. Stretching in the morning […]
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According to the stats, 34.8 percent of Brits suffer from back pain each year. It makes understanding how to fix your posture even more pressing – especially when the World Health Organisation claims lower back pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide. “Improving your posture can be a game changer. It can increase strength, energy, and flexibility,” […]
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I often wake up between 3am and 4am. It’s here I stress about tiny things and about global cataclysms. Then I stress about how to sleep better. Then I become angry that I let myself become stressed. What are my chances of sleeping, I think, with all this stress and anger? That’s just before I start googling potentially fatal medical conditions. Am I […]
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