SINCE 2016, I’VE heard the term “election stress disorder” a lot, but I’ve only recently begun to take it seriously. The phrase was introduced by the couples therapist Steven Stosny, Ph.D., during the Clinton–Trump race to describe the effects of the heightened anxiety we feel ahead of an election. Stosny tells me he coined the…

Your mental health affects everything in your day and your life. To optimize it, therapy, medications and even meditation aren’t the only answers. There are many small moves you can make that help boost your mental well-being and let you get out of your own way and get what you want out of life. …

AT AGE 45, my LDL (“bad”) cholesterol had spiraled out of control. I was doing everything “right”—for most of my adult life, I’ve maintained mostly 12 to 13 percent body fat, I’ve eaten a plant- and protein-rich whole foods diet, and I’ve consistently exercised. Yet my cholesterol climbed to 271 mg/dL—more than twice the “optimal”…

THIS DEPRESSION GET the best of me..." he tweeted from his hotel room in Los Angeles. It was All-Star Weekend 2018—a time when NBA players typically take advantage of the competition and camaraderie amongst their colleagues who are the best in the game. Instead of hanging out with friends and relishing in the weekend, though,…

MY LIFE IS a dichotomy, in that I’ve spent years in tae kwon do, love football and rodeos, but have an affinity for frozen yogurt and watching Netflix with a good cabernet and wood wick candles next to my cats, Thelma and Louise. I attribute my temperament to genes and California hippy tap water. …

WHEN YOU WANT to eat less sugar, you can put yourself through a whole cold turkey situation. Or, you can do it a much less painful and likely more successful way. And that's where our 30-Day Eat Less Sugar Challenge comes in. Every day, you do something that takes a little bit out, strategically,…

CANCER WARNINGS ARE coming to a bottle of alcohol near you — well, at least if you live in Ireland. It’s news I could hardly believe: Ireland, due to a requirement signed into law last year, will now require all bottles of alcohol to carry a cancer warning label starting in 2026. A warning…

IF THERE'S ANYTHING as prevalent as the idea that men should be strong and silent, it’s the world telling guys they need to talk about their feelings more. These contradictory messages are being cranked out at max volume, so it’s not surprising that we feel conflicted and frustrated. As a therapist, I agree that it’s…

WHEN ANDREW CHAN, M.D., became a gastroenterologist two decades ago, he had to get used to the brutal reality that seemingly healthy young people would show up in his office with colorectal cancer. Even though he specialized in high-risk cancer genetics, they didn’t all have family histories of the disease: Most weren’t obese. Some were…