Category: Lifestyle Blog
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Bon Charge’s Super Max Red Light Therapy Has Turned Me Into An At-Home Biohacker
LIVING MY LIFE AS A BIOHACKER has gotten pretty pricey lately. When you start adding up all of the different modalities it takes to live optimally, you can end up with some pretty serious expenditures (which can potentially lead to less longevity, if you ask me). However, one modality I’ve continued to return to time…
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Wax On, Wax Off: Non-Toxic Refillable Candles To Keep Things Light All Year Long
WHEN IT GETS even just the slightest bit cold outside, we like to dig up every non-toxic luxury candle we’ve been hiding in our closet during warmer months and light every single one until our home feels like either a Scandinavian hygge trope or something out of a Nancy Myers’ movie. However, creating a premium…
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Liquid Fasting, Colonics + Spiritual Awakenings: The 5 Days I Spent At The World-Renowned We Care Spa
WHEN I FIRST LEARNED I’d be spending five nights / six days at the legendary We Care Spa in Desert Hot Springs, California, I knew very little about what to expect other than it seemed to be on the tip of every tongue in LA’s underground wellness scene (as if it were a part of…
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Living Well With Open CEO + Co-Founder Raed Khawaja
MEET RAED KHAWAJA, CEO and Co-founder of Open, a company taking the lead in mindful wellness. Raed’s personal practices echo those offered through the Open app and the in-person studio in Los Angeles—blending the best of meditation, breathwork, movement, and sound. With a background in building billion-dollar brands and scaling startups, Raed is known for…
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Going Pro
You might think of protein as something you mainly get from a meal and, therefore, not a component of dessert. But, if you’re going to opt for dessert from time to time, why not consider working in ingredients that go big on this important macronutrient? It’s easier (and more delicious) than you may think! Protein…
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Dakota Johnson’s Trainer On Committing To Less, Showing Up More + 10-Minute Superhero Workouts
CELEBRITY TRAINER + The Sculpt Society Founder Megan Roup is emphatic that the way women relate to fitness and their bodies needs to change for the better—and her mission was no different while preparing Dakota Johnson for her latest role in Madame Web. When she’s not giving us hyper-motivating workouts that can be done on…
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Silky Tofu with Mango Coulis
Tender tofu and fresh-tasting mango sauce combine to make a nutritious, Japanese-style dessert with little effort. But don’t worry: your dessert will not taste beany. Silken soft tofu has a rather neutral flavour. The key here is to use blocks of very soft tofu as opposed to firm or extra-firm versions. Silken tofu is undrained…
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Orange-Scented White Bean Blondies
Blondies are basically “blonde brownies.” There is no cocoa or melted chocolate in the batter of a blondie. Here, the nutritionally lacklustre all-purpose flour is swapped out for puréed beans for a higher dose of protein. The end result is just as tender and chewy without any noticeable bean flavour. A great potluck dessert option,…
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Pumpkin Pie Fool with Chocolate Nut Crumble
Fool is a classic English dessert made, traditionally, by folding a stewed fruit into a creamy, sweet custard. This modern take adds layers of sweet pumpkin flavour and swaps out much of the cream for higher-protein Greek yogurt. The crunchy chocolate topping is a special finishing touch. Beat it It’s the fat in cream that…
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Inside Maria Shriver’s Delicious Endeavor To Uplevel The Protein Bar
THERE ARE MANY THINGS award-winning journalist, mother of four, and seven-time New York Times best-selling author Maria Shriver wants to keep in the family. Alzheimer’s Disease isn’t one of them. For years, Shriver has advocated for better Alzheimer’s research after witnessing her father succumb to the disease. In discovering that two-thirds of the US’s almost…