Health + Wellness
Do These 10 Popular Health and Wellness Trends Actually Work?
Local experts break down the results, risks, time, and cost behind everything from contrast therapy and red light masks to protein, Pilates, and rucking.
If you’re online at all, you’ve likely been exposed to any number of must-try workouts, don’t-miss beauty tips, and change-your-life diet suggestions purporting to help you lose weight, look younger, feel more energized, and sleep better. Scrolling social media often feels like a never-ending advertisement for new ways to spend money, presented through the shiny,…
Inside Horizon House’s Ambitious Next Chapter
As the senior living community embarks on a transformational expansion, CEO Erica Thrash-Sall proves that strong leadership puts human connection first.
“I do drink the kool-aid!” Erica Thrash-Sall laughs as she lists reason after reason she’s fallen in love with Horizon House, the First Hill senior-living nonprofit where she serves as CEO. There are the immediately obvious attributes like the museum-quality art, the library with a section for resident authors, the cozy nooks and ample green…
‘Explain yourself’: A Trump voter and Trump critic let you in
Moni is liberal. Travis Tripodi is conservative libertarian. Much of what he supports terrifies her… and vice versa. But when Trump returned in 2025, they knew they had to talk. In a new A Braver Way experiment, the two friends let you in on what’s become a critical exercise: bringing each other the headlines that…
Hacking Your Body For Better Health
In a bid for longevity, everyone—from experts to amateur athletes—is experimenting with ways to optimize their own biology.
When Frank Marinkovich, M.D., climbs Mount Kilimanjaro this fall, he’ll have a stronger head start than the typical hiker coming from sea level. That’s because the internal medicine doctor has been spending time with a device called the Metabolic TrainerTM , which involves wearing a mask that cycles between releasing reduced-oxygen air and air with…
A Spa for People Who Are Bad at Relaxing
Circle Wellness is bringing its private thermal circuit to Seattle, where a calm voice keeps time so you don’t have to.
From the outside, Circle Wellness does not look like a spa. It looks like the sort of large black structure you might hesitate to enter without first texting someone your coordinates. I arrived at its Vancouver, B.C., location on an unusually warm June afternoon and found no windows, almost no signage, and one massive steel…
Why I Built a Pickleball Club With My Daughter
My father showed me how to turn my love of sports into something lasting. Pickle at the Palms carries that lesson forward.
Looking back, I wouldn’t say my family teaming up to launch Pickle at the Palms—a new 20-court indoor pickleball club—was inevitable, but it may have been predictable. Sports have shaped my life for more than 50 years. I fell in love with rowing as a 17-year-old college freshman and went on to compete on two…
Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Margo Kober, M.D.
Internal medicine, Providence Swedish
Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors what led them to medicine, what they wish patients knew, and how healthcare is changing. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid to be included—all are nominated by their peers. What led…
Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Ryan Broderick, M.D.
Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente Bellevue Medical Center
Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors what led them to medicine, what they wish patients knew, and how healthcare is changing. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid to be included—all are nominated by their peers. What led…
Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Oren G. Townsend, M.D.
Internal medicine, Providence Swedish
Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors what led them to medicine, what they wish patients knew, and how healthcare is changing. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid to be included—all are nominated by their peers. What led…
Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Kristin Conn, M.D.
Family medicine, Kaiser Permanente Capitol Hill Medical Center
Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors what led them to medicine, what they wish patients knew, and how healthcare is changing. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid to be included—all are nominated by their peers. What led…
Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Jillian Worth, M.D.
Family medicine, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, Bainbridge Island Medical Pavilion
Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors what led them to medicine, what they wish patients knew, and how healthcare is changing. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid to be included—all are nominated by their peers. What led…
Can political disagreement make you happier?
“Happiness” is the last thing many of us expect to find on a call with a stranger from the opposite political side. But when Axel Bouchon and his team placed one very unusual phone booth in deeply liberal San Francisco, California, and another in deeply conservative Abilene, Texas, that was exactly what they were hoping…
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