Start Optimizing Your Stress
Usually when you think about about stress, you’re considering how to manage it or avoid it—or you’re reading about all the bad things it does to your body. But what…
Five of the Best Ways to Increase Your Stress Resilience
Photo: Dragana Gordic (Shutterstock) You might fantasize about living a stress-free life, the reality is that stress is as inescapable as the need to eat and drink. Rather than avoiding…
7 Things Science Actually Hasn’t Proven Are Healthy or Unhealthy
Photo: Ievgenii Meyer (Shutterstock) I’m starting off with the contentious question of whether a glass of wine with dinner is healthy. If anything can be said to be bad for…
How Much Time Off Is Too Much Time Off?
Photo: PR Image Factory (Shutterstock) When it comes to time off, it turns out that too much might actually be as stressful as too little—at least according to this new…
What Your ‘Heart Rate Variability’ Says About Your Health
Photo: BallBall14 (Shutterstock) One feature a number of fitness trackers offer is a metric called “heart rate variability,” or HRV, which is the interval of time between each heartbeat. But…
How to Tell Whether You’re Stressed or Depressed
Photo: Photographee.eu (Shutterstock) Stress and depression can look and feel very similar to each other. Some of the common symptoms for both include issues with sleeping, eating, concentration, and mood,…