Going to a chiropractor has become an accepted part of medical care, with about 15 percent of adults in the United States visiting one every year. #ifttt #nyt #well

When she was 28, Dr. Pooja Lakshmin blew up her life: She left a less-than-a-year-old marriage, dropped out of her psychiatry residency at the Stanford University School of Medicine and joined a cult in San Francisco that practiced healing through orgasmic meditation. #ifttt #nyt #well

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Taped above a tidy wooden desk in the corner of her bedroom, right at eye level, is a piece of paper that Marlena Fejzo has saved for 24 years. #ifttt #nyt #well

Multiple strains of the diarrhea-causing bacteria Shigella have acquired resistance to the five antibiotics most commonly used to treat it, a health alert released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed last month. #ifttt #nyt #well

Q: I take forever to fall asleep and wake frequently throughout the night. I’ve heard cannabis can help — is that true? Few things can throw off your day more than a night of bad sleep. #ifttt #nyt #well

In a study published in the journal Nature Medicine on Monday, researchers reported links between the popular zero-calorie sugar substitute erythritol and an increased risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attack and stroke. #ifttt #nyt #well

Any sleep tracker will show you that slumber is far from a passive affair. And no stage of sleep demonstrates that better than rapid eye movement, or REM, commonly called dream sleep. #ifttt #nyt #well

At what Eva Monsen calls the height of her drinking — during the long slog of the coronavirus pandemic — she drained around half a bottle of wine each day. Ms. #ifttt #nyt #well

Teri Parris Ford felt awful on her Ozempic medication. Two years ago, her doctor had prescribed it to treat Ms. Ford’s pre-diabetes, for which it was effective. Ms. Ford, a 57-year-old art teacher, experienced a drop in her A1C (a measure of average blood sugar) and lost 20 pounds in six months. #ifttt #nyt #well

The family of Bruce Willis announced that the actor has frontotemporal dementia, known as FTD, a form of dementia that occurs most commonly when nerve cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain decrease in number. Mr. #ifttt #nyt #well