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When & Why To Take B Vitamins

B vitamins act like spark plugs in your body, so if you’re falling short, your internal engine can’t run at full capacity. If you feel like you’re plugging along at 25 miles-per-hour when you want to be going 60, you just might need more

Relieve Low Back Pain Without Drugs

From dehydration to an inflammatory diet, here are the most common causes—and the best natural therapies—for back pain

How To Get The Sleep You Need

Science-backed strategies for superior slumber

6 Conditions That Affect Women More Than Men

Men are more likely to die from cirrhosis, Parkinson’s disease, colon cancer, and physical injuries. But certain serious conditions are known to target women exponentially more often than men. Here are six of the most common.

The World's Cheapest Hospital Has To Get Even Cheaper

Cancer surgery for $700. A heart bypass for $2,000. Pretty good, but under India’s new health-care system, not good enough.

8 Foods To Fight High Blood Pressure

Tasty ways to combat hypertension and reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke

13 Things - Surprising Facts About At-home DNA Tests

If you send your DNA to two different companies to find out your ancestry, you may end up with two different results.

10 Multivitamin Myths Busted

We cut through the misinformation surrounding this dietary supplement staple

How To Move More Efficiently, Prevent Injuries And Get Stronger

Want to improve your performance and prevent injury? Keep your eyes on the flexibility highways.

What My DNA Told Me: Avoid Fast Food, Eat Vegetables

Avoid fast food, eat vegetables and exercise. It sounds like generic health advice, but they’re tips supposedly tailored to my DNA profile.

12 Fitness Myths That Have To Go This Year

This is the year these 12 fitness myths just have to go.

Five-move Delt Routine To Break Your Shoulder Rut

Tired of your steady diet of presses and laterals? Two-time Arnold Classic Figure champ Candice Lewis-Carter dishes up a five-move delt routine to break your shoulder rut.

Best Tips For Fat-Loss

2X classic Physique Olympia champion Breon Ansley gives you his best fat-loss tips.

Tips To Have A More Effective Workout When 'Aunt Flo' Comes To Visit

Use these expert tips to navigate the gym when Mother Nature pays her monthly visit.

What Medication Can Do For Your Body

Starting the day with a moment of Zen can clear your head, but what can it do for your body?

Transform Your Physique In 8 Weeks

Ready to look and feel amazing? Follow this eight-week workout program, modeled by former figure pro Erin Stern, to burn fat, build muscle—and totally transform your physique.

What Time's Dinner? (And Breakfast, And Lunch …)

You could actually improve your overall health (and shrink your waistline) just by changing when you eat. Read on to learn about the research so groundbreaking that it won the Nobel Prize.

Alex Silver-fagan Spreads A Gospel Of Functional Fitness

Renowned trainer and model Alex Silver-Fagan spreads a gospel of functional fitness, facing life head-on, and embracing every moment.

This Is Your Brain... On Exercise

Hard workouts can improve mood, improve attention — and even build more gray matter.

Meet 5 Women Who've Got The Fit Factor

CALLING ALL FIT WOMEN Think you have what it takes? Send your story to futureoffitness @oxygenmag.com.

Be Lifted Choose Your Coach, Change Your Life

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Fitter With Fasted Cardio?

Is the age-old practice of hitting the treadmill hungry worth the effort?

The Hers Guide To Crushing Stress

You can’t be healthy and fit—inside or out—if you’re constantly feeling the weight of the world. Here’s how to show anxiety who’s boss.

5 Reasons Your Plank Sucks

Brace yourself (literally) for better movement by avoiding these plank mishaps.

13 Things - You Can Prevent Many Cancers

One in six deaths worldwide is from cancer, yet research shows that at least 42 percent of cancers could be prevented. Along with healthy eating and not smoking, add these habits to your list of ways to lower your risk.

What Happens When You Stop Listening To The Critical Voices In Your Head

In this excerpt from her latest book, This Messy Magnificent Life, Geneen Roth explains what happens when you stop listening to the critical voices in your head.

Powerful Herbs For Pain

Ease achy, inflamed joints with these proven botanical medicines

Quick And Easy Bites To Power Up Your Workouts

In her new cookbook, Cook to Thrive, Olympic swimmer (and Pilates devotee) Natalie Coughlin opens up about a secondary passion: cooking. Over the course of her celebrated career as a three-time gold medalist (not to mention nine other silver and bronze wins), she’s learned a thing or two about prepping food for optimal performance. These quick and easy bites will power up your workouts— and your taste buds, too.

The Ultimate Keto Guide

The popularity of the high-fat, low-carb keto diet for weight loss has skyrocketed. But some underlying mechanisms and other benefits don’t get much attention and aren’t widely understood. Here’s what you need to know.

Keeping A Journal Can Reduce Stress And Alleviate Anxiety

With science-backed benefits ranging from reduced stress to better immunity and emotional well-being, journaling just might improve your Pilates practice, too.