Health
A new trend is sweeping across TikTok, and it’s not another dance challenge—it’s sleepmaxxing. The new fad involves using a number of hacks to get better rest at night, but does it really work?
African-Americans don’t live as long as other races in the US. At higher risk for heart disease, stroke and cancer, these disparities aren’t necessarily genetic, but clinicians can help reverse the trend.
Stress can contribute to serious health problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood contributes to a rare form of heart failure that disproportionately affects Black mothers.
The bacterial disease, which spreads person-to-person, has seen a rise in cases in the Portland, Oregon, metro area.
In the past few years, Black communities have increasingly turned to ancestral healing traditions—practices that sustained our ancestors through hardship. Rooted in herbal medicine, spiritual rituals, communal healing, and energy work, these traditions are gaining greater visibility, not as fleeting trends, but as essential tools for addressing historical trauma and breaking generational cycles.
Pain has a way of shaping us. It breaks us open, forcing us to confront parts of ourselves we might otherwise avoid.
Many ancient healing traditions, including Ayurveda and herbalism, have long turned to the plant world for support in calming the nervous system and restoring balance.