Do Nightshade Vegetables Cause Inflammation?
“I was asked to look into the evidence that nightshade vegetables—including tomatoes and potatoes—might cause inflammation,” writes Gerda Endemann,…
How to Clean Sex Toys
What goes on your vulva or inside your vagina (including vibrators) can affect your health. So you want to…
Is Low-Fermentation Eating the Answer to SIBO?
Cedars-Sinai doctors Mark Pimentel and Ali Rezaie offer new guidance for people diagnosed with SIBO, including an eating plan…
Why Sex Experts Recommend the Karezza Method
Sex therapists and sexologists are using something called the Karezza Method to increase intimacy. It focuses on sensual pleasure—lots…
The Best Lubes and Sex Serums for Sensitive Skin
When it comes to sensitive skin, using lubes made without harsh ingredients—parabens, phthalates, or other endocrine disruptors—can be especially…
Raising an Intuitive Eater
If we can learn to eat intuitively, when did we learn not to? We talked with the authors of…
Why Are People Smoking Lavender?
Are there benefits to smoking herbs like lavender, chamomile, marshmallow, and mullein? Two herbalists and a cannabis scientist weigh…
4 Ways to Turn Yourself On (for Hotter Solo Sex)
You don’t go from 0 to 100 in 10 seconds with a partner. And when you’re solo, it’s no…
Curing and Preventing iPhone Thumb
A colleague at work asked me if I knew anything about texting thumb or hand pain associated with texting.…
How to Ease Symptoms of Perimenopause, according to an Integrative Dietitian
We’ve all heard about the challenging symptoms that menopause brings, but often we’re not given tools to help. Integrative…
6 Romance Novels with Swoon-Worthy Heartthrobs
We called up romance-novel connoisseurs Leah and Bea Koch from the Ripped Bodice—a romance-only bookstore in LA—to have them…
For Stronger Orgasms, Try Edging
Edging is a sex-therapist-sanctioned tool to enhance pleasure, intensify orgasms, and build sexual control. We asked clinical sexologist Amanda…
At goop, we believe wellness is deeply individual. One woman’s path to health may call for sobriety; another's may involve a nightly whiskey ritual. Regardless, it’s the holistic picture that matters to us, being careful never to cleave the mind from a conversation about the body, or the body from a conversation about the mind.
Our goal has always been to ask questions—about our sex lives, our spiritual lives, the food we eat, how we work out, what happens when we die—and we know we're not the only curious ones. The answers help us get closer to what "well" means to each of us individually, and we hope they’re helpful to you.
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