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These Are The Best Mats Out There For Every Type Of Yogi

3 Signs You're Wearing The Wrong Sports Bra & How To Pick The Right One

31 Sleep Tips For People With Anxiety

8 Annoying Things That Can Cause Breast Pain

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This Is Why Your Period Stops & Starts

After years of getting your period, you may think you’ve got it all figured out. But your period doesn’t always behave the way you expect it to

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6 Reasons Why You’re Spotting & What To Do About It

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Diet & Nutrition

The Truth About Alkaline Water

From juice detoxes to SoulCycle, there’s always some transformative cure-all making the rounds. Recently, the benefits of alkaline water and a veggie-ric

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Thirsty At Basically All Times? Read This

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I'll Have What She's Having

Here’s What Happens To Your Body When You Have An Orgasm

Sex is one of the basic pleasures of life, but the orgasm is anything but simple — especially for people with vaginas. The complexity begins with your an

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How To Feel Better When You Have A Nasty Cold

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How To Tell If You’re Depressed Or Just A Grinch

About this time of year every year, people begin to feel… off. You might already be starting to get sick of hearing your friends' complaints abo

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PSA: It's Not Weird To Get Hot Flashes Before Your Period

If you're younger than a certain age and have ever gotten a hot flash, you know two things. First, you've seen that when they hit, they hit hard:

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Here’s What’s Happening In Your Brain When You’...

It's never comforting to hear a story about a drunken night out that you don't remember. Not only is it super freaky to feel like you have a dopp

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5 Ways An All-Nighter Messes With Your Body — & How To Bounce Back

Whether you were forced to stay up all night to catch up on work or you just couldn't get yourself to doze off, having to go without sleep is often an

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How To Deal With Allergies

How To Tell If Your Cold Is Actually Hayfever

Runny nose, scratchy eyes... do you have a cold, or are you suffering from hayfever?

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Yes, You Can Develop Hay Fever As An Adult

We often think of hay fever as a childhood problem. We assume that, if something was gonna come up, it certainly would have done so by now. But the truth i

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3 Ways To Make Quitting Cigarettes Less Awful

No matter how you go about it, quitting cigarettes is tough. But it can (and, you know, probably should) be done — and there are a few ways to make quitt

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Here’s Why You Keep Getting UTIs

There's nothing quite like a urinary tract infection (UTI) to take the wind out of your sexy sails. One week you're enjoying getting intimate wit

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This Is Why You Sweat So Much — & What To Do About It

Ever feel like you're basically swimming your way through your vinyasa only to realise your workout bud might as well be starring in an ad for matte f

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These 8 Free Apps Will Help You Manage Your Mental Health

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Diet & Nutrition

What We Know About Coffee & Cancer

Breakfast lovers of the world woke up to a troubling message this morning: The U.K.'s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has joined the FDA in advising again

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Mental Health Awareness

15 Apps To Help You Track & Manage Your Anxiety

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7 Easy Ways To Stop Snoring

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3 Weird Consequences Of Not Getting Enough Sleep

You probably already know that being sleep-deprived will make you cranky. But as this new Happify infographic explains, going without a good night's s

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Here’s What You Didn’t Know About Having Depression

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Diet & Nutrition

The Truth About Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple cider vinegar's (ACV) reputation as a miracle cure certainly isn't new — supposedly even the Ancient Greeks were into the stuff. Today, t

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Comfort Food Is The Greatest Lie We Were Ever Told

Photographed by Ruby Yeh. Sometimes, the most important truths are the hardest to swallow. Now, it seems science has no mercy: A recent study suggests that

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Diet & Nutrition

Can We Trick Our Brains Into Hating Junk Food?

Photographed by Ruby Yeh. Sticking to healthy eating would probably be a lot easier if the unhealthy options didn't taste so damn great — which is w

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Diet & Nutrition

There's No Such Thing As A Sugar Rush, According To Science

Science has already broken hearts with the news that comfort food doesn't exist. Now, we regret to inform you that there actually isn't any concl

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This Is Probably Why Your Periods Are Irregular

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