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Day: November 5, 2019

Your Regeneration

How to reframe your sad singleness into empowered self-partnership

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November 05, 2019 at 10:39PM by CWC Emma Watson is happy being single. In fact, she’s self-partnered, she says. My mother sent Watson’s interview with British Vogue to me in an attempt to make me feel better (?) about being single. Later, a personalized astrology app sent me the following notification: “Instead of looking for validation from romantic interests, try to give that to yourself.” So apparently I have a brand, and it is Deeply Single—or, self-partnered. “Cut to 29, and I’m like, Oh my God, I feel so stressed and anxious. And I realize it’s because there is suddenly this bloody influx of subliminal messaging around,” Watson said. “If you have not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby, and you are turning 30, and you’re not in some incredibly secure, stable place in your career, or you’re still figuring things out… There’s just this incredible amount of anxiety.” Wow, Emma Watson is out here reciting my daily existential crisis like she’s telling someone how to properly pronounce leviosa and I needed to hear this.  Being single can be empowering and awesome (you get the bed all to yourself! No one is there to witness you eating leftovers while standing in front of the fridge, because you’re too lazy to do dishes!), but it can also feel really lonely and sad, as Watson articulated. While I’ve cultivated a healthy amount of self-deprecation about it, I also feel the pressure to

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Fashion Yoga Your Regeneration

5 strength-building yoga poses that are also full-body stretches in disguise

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November 05, 2019 at 08:37PM by CWC Your favorite yoga pose says a lot about your preferred kinds of movement. Love forward fold? You must find freedom in flexibility. Can’t get enough of chair pose? You’re all about strength. Some asanas have singular purposes, it’s true. But plenty of poses work double-duty to strengthen and lengthen your muscles at the very same time, says Jess Penesso, yoga teacher and founder of The Sweat Method. “It is so important to balance strength with stretching for healthy joints that allow you to practice yoga your whole life,” says Penesso. “If we are only stretching and not strengthening in our yoga practice, we run the risk of putting unnecessary stress on our cartilage where our bones meet at our joints. Because we don’t have nerves in our cartilage, we don’t realize we’re wearing this down until it’s gone and there is an injury.” A handful of yoga poses strengthen the muscles while you stretch to decrease wear-and-tear in the cartilage. 5 yoga poses for strength that stretch your whole body, too 1. High lunge “High lunge strengthens the glute muscles, quad of the front leg, arms, and back muscles while stretching the hamstring and hip flexor on the back leg and chest,” explains Penesso. How to do it: Start standing with your feet hip-width apart. Place your hands on your hips and step your right foot forward 2 to 3 feet. Stay on the ball of the back left foot and bend into right

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Your Regeneration

New blood test could detect breast cancer up to 5 years before symptoms, say researchers

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November 05, 2019 at 07:34PM by CWC Annual mammograms give doctors the best chance at detecting breast cancer in its early stages when it can be treated and may be cured, according to The National Cancer Institute. And now scientists are developing a new breast cancer screening in the form of a blood test that may be able to detect breast cancer five years before the presentation of clinical symptoms. Researchers at the University of Nottingham used the presence of tumor-associated antigens (TAAs), proteins produced by cancer cells, and their resulting autoantibodies (antibodies produced by the immune system) to detect cancer in humans. In the pilot study, researchers took blood samples from 90 breast cancer patients when they were diagnosed with breast cancer before matching them with blood samples taken from 90 patients without breast cancer. Then, they tested the blood samples for the presence of autoantibodies and 40 TAAs associated with breast cancer (along with 27 TAAs that were not known to be linked with the disease). “The results of our study showed that breast cancer does induce autoantibodies against panels of specific tumor-associated antigens. We were able to detect cancer with reasonable accuracy by identifying these autoantibodies in the blood,” said Daniyah Alfattani, a PhD student, at the National Cancer Research Institute Conference. The research suggests that in the future future breast cancer could be detected and treated earlier, but according to Constance Chen, MD, a board certified plastic surgeon who specializes in breast reconstruction, the blood test’s wide

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Vegetarians Your Regeneration

Changing my definition of ‘breakfast foods’ completely upgraded my healthy eating routine

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November 05, 2019 at 07:00PM by CWC When I was a kid, my favorite thing in the entire world was eating breakfast for dinner. Pancakes are delicious at basically any time during the day, but there’s something extra special about eating them at a time when people are normally eating grain bowls or sheet-pan chicken. But now that I am an adult who has to prepare her own meals, I’ve discovered that breakfast foods are among some of my least favorite things to cook. There is something particularly soul crushing about dirtying an entire pan (my only pan!) and spatula for two scrambled eggs that I eat in approximately two minutes. Anything that oatmeal, my other favorite breakfast, touches, has to be cleaned immediately after eating—otherwise you’re never going to get the hardened oat chunks off of your bowl and spoon. So despite the fact that “always eat breakfast” is the “always wear sunscreen” of the healthy eating world, I recently fell into a bad habit of skipping breakfast altogether because I don’t want to deal with the aforementioned egg mess. This went on for a while, until one morning when I was rummaging through my fridge and saw my little container of meal prepped zoodles with a meat sauce made with Primal Kitchen marinara. I stared at it longingly, then remembered a piece of advice from my nutritionist: breakfast doesn’t have to be just breakfast foods. He recommended that I look at breakfast like lunch or dinner, and encouraged

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Your Regeneration

Well+Good TALKS: Why Your Hormones Are At The Center Of EVERYTHING

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November 05, 2019 at 06:03PM by CWC It’s easier than ever before to get a full picture of what’s happening hormonally in your body—but what then? Everything you need to know about the nutritional, fitness, and lifestyle approaches women are using to get back in balance. EVENT DETAILS Wednesday, November 20, 2019 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Location: WeWork Now | 902 Broadway, New York, NY 10010 THE PANEL Nicole Jardim | Certified Women’s Health + Functional Nutrition Coach Nicole is the creator of Fix Your Period, a series of programs that empower women to reclaim their hormone health using a method that combines simplicity and sass. She’s the co-host of The Period Party podcast, creator of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s hormone health continuing education course, author of the forthcoming book Fix Your Period, and co-author of The Happy Balance, filled with over 80 hormone-balancing recipes. Nataki Douglas, MD, PhD | Chair, Modern Fertility Medical Advisory Board Dr. Nataki Douglas is the medical advisory board chair at Modern Fertility, the women’s health company making fertility hormone testing more accessible earlier in life, and has been a practicing OBGYN for decades. She received both her MD and PhD degrees from Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Douglas was at Columbia University for over 15 years and recently joined Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School as director of translational research for the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women’s Health. Nick Bitz, ND | Chief Scientific Officer, Youtheory Dr. Nick Bitz is a naturopathic doctor

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