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MY SMARTWATCH constantly dings with cheerful congratulations for steps taken, heart rate achieved, days rested to speed up my recovery. My shelves, meanwhile, groan with helpful books, my phone with apps, and my counter with supplements that promise to remedy any deficiency that might inhibit my peak human performance. So why, if my life is so optimized, do I feel so…meh? Maybe optimization—a trend that rose concurrently with our ability to track our body’s data—isn’t so optimal. We tend to overvalue what we can measure and undervalue the immeasurable. Yet much of what makes life meaningful and keeps us mentally healthy is not so easily captured in metrics. (See: There’s no tracking ring for contentment.) We worked with top mental wellness experts to ID what all our meters might be…

She begins by moving her shoulders. Next, she starts swinging her arms, so that her limbs resemble a pendulum. She gyrates her hips, kicks out her legs and rotates her neck until her body is in the kind of full, wild flow that might encourage a passer-by to call for help. Aside from her unruly movements, the mom-of-one on screen looks put together, with a Pinterest board-worthy blonde fringe and on-trend wide-legged jeans; a well-watered and docile dog in her background. But her toddler simply won’t stop screaming. The solution? Shaking out her body, she tells her TikTok audience, in a video viewed almost 1m times, tagged #nervoussystemregulation. Regulators Round Up TikTok is positively reverberating with the belief that ‘regulating’ your nervous system is the key to optimum well-being, with…

TikTok Trend Alert The latest TikTok nutrition trend – chia seeds in water, plus a squeeze of lemon – got its name from the resemblance between the soaked seeds and frog larvae. But should you try it? Chia seeds provide more weight-for-weight protein than an egg and contain all nine essential amino acids, making them one of the richest plant-based sources of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids. There’s also evidence to suggest chia seeds may help lower blood pressure and levels of ‘bad’ cholesterol. This is likely because chia seeds are especially high in fibre, more so than most other foods (just 2 Tbsp contains 6g, a fifth of your daily recommended amount). Fibre has many health benefits and chia seeds contain a type of fibre that swells, causing it to…

Even when I think my schedule is chill, it usually isn’t,” stylist Jared Ellner says from his home base of Los Angeles, where he’s just returned after a stint in Europe. For the past few weeks, he’s been juggling a slate of overlapping international projects, including the wardrobe for Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet tour and the Oscars after-parties, which five of his clients attended. Right now, Ellner might be one of the busiest people in fashion. “But that’s the beauty of this,” the 28-year-old says. “I’m very grateful to ride this wave.” A new class of young creatives is driving entertainment forward: YouTube wunderkind–turned–entrepreneur Emma Chamberlain, pop power-house Carpenter, and Hollywood multi-hyphenates like Molly Gordon and Rachel Sennott, who write and star in today’s buzziest indie films. Along with…

It’s been a tumultuous few months for Justin Bieber. In April, fans were worried after footage from Coachella showed him looking dazed and smoking what appeared to be marijuana next to his younger brother. The appearance came on the heels of social media posts in which the singer, 31, confessed to feeling “unworthy” and having “anger issues.” Sources tell Us Bieber, who welcomed son Jack with wife Hailey, 28, last August, is struggling amid some major life transitions, including first-time fatherhood and his recent exit from his clothing brand, Drew House. “Justin’s going through a lot of changes and he’s had some dark days,” says a Bieber source. “It’s a lot at once, and he’s trying to adjust to his new normal.” A second source says becoming a dad forced…

Call it her OG squad. Blake Lively partied with her sisters, Robyn and Lori, at a photo exhibition in NYC on May 15, just hours after a judge struck down a new letter filed by Justin Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, about Blake’s longtime BFF, Taylor Swift. His bombshell claim? That Blake had threatened to release Taylor’s private texts if she didn’t release a statement of support amid the It Ends With Us stars’ dueling sexual harassment lawsuits. (Blake’s lawyer denied the allegations.) “The sole purpose of [Freedman’s] Letter is to ‘promote public scandal’ by advancing inflammatory accusations, on information and belief, against Lively and her counsel,” wrote Judge Lewis J. Liman. “It transparently invites a press uproar by suggesting that Lively and her counsel attempted to ‘extort’ a well-known celebrity.”…