(Related: The Secret to Happiness? Concentrate on Your Relationships) 4. Estrogen This happy hormone helps form serotonin and protects you from irrita­bility and anxiety, keeping your mood steady.

Recently, I went back to my childhood pool with my mom, who goes there to exercise and help heal various injuries. I watched her swim back and forth, at her own pace, a few lanes over, before I pushed ...

What are the treatment options? When you notice the early appearance of varicose veins, there are some strategies to help prevent them from getting worse. Barankin says compression stockings are the ...

Standard cardio workouts can be hard to get pumped up for, even in the best of times. When you’re stuck inside—and the couch is calling your name—lacing up your sneaks for an at-home sweat session can ...

But stretching doesn’t have to be a solo exercise. And static stretching is a great partner activity. An active form of partner stretching might be a lying hamstring stretch. How to do a lying ...

Try mindful meditation A stronger prefrontal cortex will help you tune out things you don’t want to think about, says Parmely. Mindfulness meditation exercises your brain to help buffer it against ...

Female athletes competing in aesthetic sports, such as figure skating, experience so much body shaming it’s the equivalent of emotional abuse, according to a recent University of Toronto study. This ...

The Detox Market, which opened in 2010 and was at the forefront of the clean beauty movement, puts all products it sells through an intense vetting process. According to founder Romain Gaillard, only ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadians paid homage to the health care workers on the frontlines. We banged pots and pans, put signs in our windows and posted social media messages thanking these ...

Over the past few years the skin care world has exploded, and once-buzzy words like “micellar” and “hyaluronic” have now become part of our vocabulary—and our skin care regimens. What began as a one- ...

But there’s another strike against milk: Recent research in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition indicates that milk reduces the amount of polyphenols from coffee that the body takes in. In ...

Kyne As Kitchener, Ontario’s premiere math nerd-turned-drag queen, Kyne’s feeds are filled with both sparkly makeup looks and number puzzles. Since appearing on season one of Canada’s Drag Race in ...