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May marks AAPI Heritage Month, which recognizes the contributions Asian American and Pacific Islander Americans have made to the United States’ culture, history, and achievements.
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If you browsed the health-food section at your local supermarket, odds are you've come across adaptogens before.
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Tough Time Sleeping Next to Your Partner? These Technologies Might Help
MORNING EVANGELISTS swear that an early rise helps increase productivity, so in 2018 I’ve aimed to get up with the sun. My husband, however, curls into a ball at the mere idea of 8 a.m. I bought him a sleep mask so we don’t start our days angry, but these cracks at dawn have been the tipping point of an incompatible sleep relationship that has plagued our marriage for the last five years.
Partnered sleep provides fertile ground for fighting, with couples having competing requirements for what...
What Are Adaptogens?
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When Alison Wu attended a plant-medicine workshop about something called “adaptogens” at the Spirit Weaver Festival in 2016 with a few friends, she was just there for fun. But after a weekend spent with various medicinal mushrooms, herbs and roots, she was hooked and began sharing her favorite brands and blends on Instagram.
A photo of perfectly layered, millennial-pink smoothies went viral, and since then Ms. Wu, who was a prop stylist at the time, has gone full-time into the wellness ...