Anna Amiradaki

Dr. Achina Stein, owner of Functional Mind, Providence. A note from the editor There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has become almost universal: the exhaustion of a body that has been tested, medicated, referred, retested, and is still not well. It is the exhaustion not just of symptoms, but of not being believed or listened to. Of being handed a prescription for something that treats the surface while the deeper question goes unasked. Functional medicine begins with that question....

Time at work. Jasper Hill Farm's aging cellars, Greensboro, Vermont. Mateo Kehler and the Primordial Memory of Cheese The Meaning of Your Life by Arthur C. Brooks has been embraced as a much needed remedy to America's biggest ailment: loss of community, meaning, and a devastatingly alarming rise of anxiety and depression amongst our youth — in numbers never seen before. This book, along with Plays Well with Others by Eric Barker, is only a fraction of a plethora of dialogue happening across...

Having lived outside the Boston area for more than fifteen years hasn't come without a sharp adjustment to the fast, efficient, and sometimes frenetic rhythm of life. Coming from a laid-back Mediterranean culture — where arriving fifteen minutes late to a dinner party planned impromptu that same afternoon is actually showing up early and finding your host still at the stove, where birthday parties have no end time and a coffee meet-up lasts two hours by default — the Northeast's relationship...