Build Stress Resilience with Ayurveda
In the West, stress has become a major contributor to disease and illness. Instead of stress reduction, Ayurveda prescribes a series of stress-prevention techniques.
Who’s Your Mama? Gift Guide
Your mom's the best! The Who's Your Mama Gift Guide has just what she needs to keep going. Are you a mom? Working hard to balance it all? Treat yourself! You know you deserve it.
Natural Relief for Allergy Symptoms
Spring blooms may look sweet and innocent, but allergy sufferers know better. Natural alternatives can go a long way to relieve milder allergy symptoms.
Detox Buyer’s Guide: Top Products to Help You Cleanse
Our intrepid tester tried them all — foot spas, detox baths, foot pads, workouts, foods, and skin treatments — and asked experts how they work. A personal shopper’s lowdown on the detox scene.
Detox 101
Daily life produces toxins—there’s no way around that. The body has mechanisms for eliminating toxins, such as breathing, sweating, urinating and bowel movements, but sometimes it needs a little bit of help.
Back Pain Relief: An M.D.’s Top 5 Tips
Chopra Center Medical Director David Simon, M.D., says alternative healthcare remedies for back care can be surprisingly effective.
Stress Relief Tips from Mayo Clinic
Stress can be short-term or long-term. If constantly elevated, stress can make you more vulnerable to life-threatening health problems. Fortunately though, you can develop skills to avoid some stressors and limit the effects of others. Here are eight of them.
Kick Off Your Detox with a Restorative Twist
Twist your torso to help your body detox. Here’s how to do a restorative seated yoga twist to give your cleanse a gentle and painless jump-start.
Update Your Heart Smarts: New Research & Advice
Updated studies, statistics and tips on preventing cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke, including how yoga, meditation and other techniques are proven to help.
Beat the Blues with Heart-Opening Yoga
Feeling blue? Yoga instructor Kate Hanley explains how to do simple yoga poses that open the chest -- a surprisingly simple and effective way to lift your mood.
Lose Weight Permanently with Ayurveda
Is simply being an American making you fat? This plan for what, when and how to eat to lose weight and keep it off for life is based on Ayurveda and European ideas about food.
Stand By Your Mantra for a New Attitude
How to get started using mantras, how to choose a mantra, insight on the origin of mantras and their power for better well-being, and tips on using mantras to help with anything you're struggling with.
Detox Without Fasting: 2 Easy Plans
Tips to help you make the most of nature's detox plan. How to do a daily cleanse and a seasonal or quarterly detox just by shifting your sleep schedule and eating some everyday detoxifying foods.
1-2-3 Detox for Radiance
Gone overboard with indulgences lately? Look radiant in 24 hours, luminous in 48, and positively sparkly in 72. Step-by-step plan gives 3 ways to detox plus 7 recipes.
Why Meditate? Science Finds Clues
Researchers are finding exciting evidence of meditation’s effects on the brain -- new clues to why it can help calm emotions, sharpen reasoning and even make you healthier.
Cancer Survivors Thrive with Yoga
In Laura Kupperman’s Yoga for Survivors class, sore shoulders and tight hips are likely the least of students’ complaints. But here they find help with exactly what cancer has brought them today.
Crazy Sexy Cancer: Tips from Survivors
It's not your typical cancer book. Kris Carr and her “Cancer Babe Posse” share hard-earned insights, hints, “hell-yeahs” and real, fun, crazy, sexy ways to live with cancer.
De-Stress While Driving: 4 Simple Exercises to Do in the Car
Stuck in the car? It’s a great time for simple exercises to deflate your stress. And you’ll arrive at your destination feeling calm, not frazzled.
Face Yoga: Fountain of Youth?
Face yoga students are abandoning face-lifts and Botox for Downward Dog. Here’s the good, the bad and the need-to-know on face yoga and its anti-aging benefits, plus four poses with photos and instructions to help you see if it’s for you.
Alternative Treatments for Erectile Dysfunction
About erectile dysfunction and alternative medicine options for prevention and treatment of ED, including how certain foods or diet changes, vitamins, herbs, exercise, and lifestyle changes can help.
Yoga Therapy: The Next Wave in Yoga
Can yoga fix your bum knee? Your bad back? Western doctors are referring patients to yoga therapy as an alternative to physical therapy. Here's what you need to know about this growing, but still fledgling, healthcare approach.
Improve Your Sex Life with Yoga
Yoga is a true physical and mental workout, so it's no surprise it can help you have better sex. Find out how Yoga can improve your sex life and make the next time a real mind-body experience.
Top 10 Superfoods
Too busy to eat as healthfully as you’d like every day? Dr. James Rouse shows you how to get maximum nutritional punch from a few uber-foods that can help fill the gaps.
Apple Cinnamon 'Menopause Muffins' Recipe
Features ingredients including whole-grain flour, soy milk, flax and walnuts that help prevent and ease hot flashes, mood swings and other symptoms.
Getting Burned by Your Metabolism?
Naturopathic physician, chef and TV health-news host Dr. James Rouse sheds light on what, when and how to eat to keep your metabolism burning strong -- and the surprising all-day energy you can get in addition to that calorie burn.
Eat to Boost Metabolism and All-Day Energy: Meal Planning Guide & Recipes
Running on empty? Dr. James Rouse maps out what, when and how much to eat to keep both your metabolism and your energy levels steadily elevated -- to help you manage your weight, keep your cool, maintain your focus and avoid cravings.
Mariel Hemingway's Secrets to Healthy Living
In her new book, actress, yogi and survivor Mariel Hemingway shows you a 30-day plan to help you derive "more health, more peace and more pleasure" from the life you already have.
What's Your Dosha? Ayurveda 101
Background on ayurvedic principles, how to find out your dosha or body-mind composition (are you a vata, pitta or kapha?), and how it can affect your creativity, flexibility, stress resilience, immune system and more. Plus: how to balance the negative aspects of your dominant dosha.
Which Styles of Yoga to Try?
Although most physical forms of yoga practice share similarities, knowing the nuances can help you get started on the right foot, fit your practice to your priorities and physical condition, expand your awareness and make your yoga practice more rewarding.
Creating a Sacred Space at Home
Create a special place for meditation, rituals, reflection and just renewing your spirit. These 15 tips will help you use candles, statues, sculptures, lighting, altars, cushions, furniture and more to express your spirituality and connect with what's meaningful to you.
Play Your Mind a Melody: Why Sound & Music Therapy Works
In a nervous-system phenomenon called "brainwave entrainment," music has been shown to successfully lure your brain into wave patterns to reduce stress, enhance concentration and create restful sleep. An interview with sound therapy expert Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.
Alternative Therapies for Diabetes
Naturopathic physician James Rouse on diabetes and how complementary treatment approaches can help. Includes a 5-step dietary plan for diabetes sufferers plus 8 supplements that can help.
Ask an N.D.: Nondrug Solutions for Chronic Pain
Naturopathic physician James Rouse offers insight on alternative therapies -- from acupuncture to an anti-inflammatory diet to helpful supplements and herbal medicines -- that can help you find relief from chronic pain.
Gout Flare-Ups? Foods, Supplements & Treatments for Relief
Most physicians are trained to write a prescription or recommend nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to treat gout, but there are many preventive measures that an individual can take to try and prevent gout from happening in the first place.
Top 10 Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease
Nondrug ways to prevent and treat the number-one killer in America (for both men and women) -- tips on how to better manage stress, foods and supplements that can help, and more.
Preventing and Treating Osteoporosis: Healthy to the Bone
Are you at risk for Osteoporosis? How much calcium is enough? What if you don't eat dairy? What about hormone therapy, soy, isoflavones ... The facts you need to help prevent and treat bone-density loss.
Back Pain: You need solutions, not just painkillers
Naturopathic physician James Rouse on what you can do about your aching back besides live on pain meds or go under the knife.
Allergy Sufferer? Know Your Alternatives
Can you avoid taking chemical medications for your allergy symptoms? How to find out what's causing your histamine reactions, prevent exposure to it, and treat symptoms without pharmaceuticals.
7 Nondrug Asthma Treatments + 5 Herbal Remedies
A useful list compiled by naturopathic physician James Rouse, complete with a run-down of common causes and triggers of asthma -- the disease that leads to 2 million emergency room visits and 5,000 deaths per year in the U.S., according to the EPA.
Colds and Flu: Alternative Therapies
Naturopathic physician James Rouse overviews natural remedies and how they help relieve the aches, pain, congestion and other symptoms of cold and flu.
