(Shruti Rajkumar/ Huffington Post) — Animal welfare activist Bindi Irwin, the daughter of famed wildlife expert Steve Irwin, opened up this week about her decad-elong battle with endometriosis and the surgery she’s undergone to treat the condition.
In a social media post Tuesday, the younger Irwin said
(Heidi Godman/ Harvard Health) — It’s hard to care about anything when you feel exhausted, burned out, or ragged around the edges. Your once-fiery enthusiasm may seem more like charred rubble due to overwhelming family responsibilities, a job that drains you, or financial struggles. Or maybe an illness, the uncertainty …
(Christie Aschwanden/ The New York Times) — You’ve probably been told countless times that exercise is good for your health and fitness, and it’s tempting to assume that more is automatically better. But as with so many other good things in life, there comes a point of diminishing returns, and it’s possible to overdo it. …
(Michael Marshall/ Nature) — When Claire Hastie fell ill in March of last year, she reacted the way she usually would to a minor ailment: she tried to ignore it. “It started off incredibly mild,” she says. “I would normally have paid no attention to it whatsoever.”
But within a week she was flattened. “I had just never felt ill …