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May 29, 2021
Ahh, summer… Tubing on the San Marcos River, visiting the Volente Beach Water Park, hiking, swimming at any of the countless beautiful creeks and swimming holes around Austin, boat parties on the lake, taking...
May 24, 2021
Hot summer months signal the arrival of a favorite Texas season: pool season! One of the best pastimes for counteracting sizzling temperatures, a cool pool is perfect for all manner of activities, from lounging...
May 15, 2021
You might have thought that by 2021 you’d be back in the office and out of the house. Well, now you know the pandemic is not going anywhere anytime soon and, more likely than...
May 11, 2021
It has been said that the value of therapy is largely in the relationship you have with your therapist. Sure, your therapist is well-trained in how to alleviate mental health issues like anxiety, stress...
May 10, 2021
If there’s one good thing that can be said of strokes, it’s this: The vast majority of them don’t need to happen. Up to 80% of strokes can be prevented through healthy lifestyle changes...
May 10, 2021
We live in a world where we’re constantly distracted. Your phone dings and you suddenly stop what you were doing to pick it up. Your apps create urgent, red dots and notifications that sometimes...
May 7, 2021
You already know the importance of digestive health and its integral role in optimal nutrition. You’ve also probably seen ads proudly proclaiming the benefits of probiotics. It seems like every day there is a...
May 7, 2021
“Wherever you go, there you are.” Jon Kabat-Zinn is known for this quote through the title of his book on mindful meditation. Some people view the saying simply as a play on proximity and...
May 7, 2021
As cat and dog parents we’re always looking for new, delicious ways to motivate our pets. Each day there’s something new to learn about the different foods that can benefit our pets but not...
May 6, 2021
In Sanskrit, prana means life and yama means control. In yoga, we practice pranayama by regulating the breath using specific techniques to achieve a certain result. There are several pranayama exercises, each with its...
May 4, 2021
Remember all those commercials that were on for a while with the yogurt in the green packaging that talked all about how it was packed with billions of active and live probiotics? If you’re...
May 4, 2021
We live in stressful times. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, our lives were driven by routines and schedules that had us racing out the door, driving through maniacal traffic, rushing through lunches to get...
May 3, 2021
Summer’s coming and we can all feel it: warm weather, sunshine and swimsuit season. In addition to the changing of the seasons, advertisements of all sorts are popping up on your feeds reading, “Bikini...
May 2, 2021
The ocean is plagued by plastic. Fishing nets, consumer waste, and perhaps most concerning, microplastics. According to a 2015 article in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, authors estimated that “275 million...
May 2, 2021
Let’s talk about one of the latest trends sweeping the internet: drinking chlorophyll. The quick answer is YES it actually has numerous benefits for human health (those TikTokers are on to something!). At the...
May 1, 2021
Whether you regularly see a dermatologist or not, checking your skin regularly for any signs of sun damage and taking precautions is a crucial part of living somewhere with ample months of sun exposure....
May 1, 2021
I had made it almost 25 years of playing organized soccer with nary a knee injury. Then, at 28 years old, during an adult beginner’s league indoor soccer game, I heard every soccer player’s...
