Can Eating Grapefruit Before Every Meal Actually Help You Lose Weight?
Like clothing and hairstyle trends, fad diets come and go, only to return in slightly new variations years later. Perhaps one of the best-known diets that somehow keeps returning to the mainstream is the grapefruit diet. Mayb
UConn Basketball Star Paige Bueckers Does This One Stretch Before She Goes to Bed
In SELF’s Sleeping With… series, we ask people from different career paths, backgrounds, and stages of life how they make sleep magic happen. At just 23 years old, Paige Bueckers has already cemented herself as a force in
Best Time To Take Probiotics With Antibiotics Explained
Antibiotics have transformed modern medicine. They save millions of lives by effectively fighting bacterial infections. However, while they eliminate harmful bacteria, they do not distinguish between good and bad bacteria, wh
How Meditation Can Make You a Better Yogi (and Vice Versa)
As mind-body practices, yoga and meditation provide many benefits. However, if you practice one without the other, you might not be getting the most out of either habit. You can actually enhance your experience both on the ma
10 Inner-Thigh Exercises to Target and Strengthen Your Adductors
For many folks, adductor exercises are a neglected part of strength training. Unlike other lower-body players—like the glutes, quads, and calves—the inner thighs are typically not top of mind for a lot of exercisers, in p
Symptoms Of Not Eating Enough: Key Signs To Recognize
You might believe you are eating adequately in terms of quantity and quality, but then you might still experience a lot of fatigue and irritation. You may wonder, Am I actually eating enough? This could very well be due to no
This Beginner-Friendly Abs Exercise Will Strengthen Your Entire Core
Don’t let its name deceive you: The dead bug exercise is actually a really stellar strength move—and one, we’re happy to inform you, that has nothing to do with, um, expired cockroaches or beetles. In fact, consider it
What Can Happen to Your Feet If You Wear the Same Shoes for Running and Lifting
Maybe you’re a runner who strength trains to stay injury-free, a lifter who dabbles in sprinting for power, or someone who’s aiming to incorporate both cardio and resistance into your general routine—a.k.a. the original
Hunter Woodhall Says His Oura Ring Might Have ‘Saved’ His Life—Here’s How
Paralympic track star Hunter Woodhall and his wife, Olympic long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall, made people around the world melt after rooting each other to dual gold medals at the Paris Games. But while Woodhall is back at tra
This 30-Second Stretch Makes Tight Hips a Lot Less Cranky
If you’re one of the 25% of Americans who don’t get the recommended amount of physical activity each week, you might be all-too-familiar with a common side effect of spending a little too much time sitting: cranky hips, l