Health Tips Line

Today I have answered 500(ish) emails, sent 300 texts, driven five teenagers to the mall, cleaned up four piles of dog vomit, taught three fitness classes, done two interviews, written one-and-a-half articles, attended one Spanish class … and it’s not even dinnertime yet. All that’s missing is the partridge in a pear tree. So my life is certainly full. But is it fulfilling ? I can’t exactly say that all these things today brought me joy. But if we want to be Truly Happy aren’t we supposed to be, like, finding joy in the little things? Or something?    It’s that “or something” that I think about a lot these days, as the days fly by ever faster. Where are we supposed to find that happiness for our “one beautiful life” when it’s just so dang busy? Then it occurred to me that while we’ll ask 500 strangers online how to do sourdough bread, for some reason we never ask the people who’ve been doing th...

“It feels like no one really knows what we’re doing by taking peptides,” says Margo ­Fleming, a 41-year-old ultramarathon runner in Los Angeles. Fleming started using BPC-157, a synthetic peptide that allegedly boosts wound healing and supports recovery, two years ago after hearing recommendations from several health professionals, including a personal trainer, a massage therapist and a naturopath. “I’ve dealt with a lot of injuries in the past, but I feel like my body is more resilient on peptides,” she says. Fleming says some of her chronic injuries—Achilles tendinitis and frequent calf strains—are gone. Peptides are the body’s messengers that signal your cells to execute functions like prompting your kidneys to absorb water or your brain to release oxytocin . They occur naturally in your body, but synthetic versions, like the ones Fleming uses, can also be made in a laboratory and injected or swallowed to induce a variety of v...

Suffering from punctuation paralysis? Semicolon confusion? End-of-sentence prepositions rage? Relax! The grammar guru, aka Ellen Jovin, will see you now. Or maybe she saw you already. Jovin has set up her Grammar Table in all 50 states, taking on every question posed by passersby, from the basic they’re vs. their to the eternally vexing lay vs. lie . And what she’s learned in her travels is this: Grammar is everywhere . We can’t escape it, even though many of us try. But love it, as Jovin does? “I think it’s completely thrilling to be able to look at a sentence and know how many clauses and prepositional phrases there are, whether the verbs are transitive or intransitive, what the pronoun case is and so on,” she says. “I would have been ecstatic if we had spent additional years on grammar in school.” In September 2018, Jovin, then an author, lecturer and communications coach for Syntaxis—her business that focuses on teaching commu...