Category: Wellness

Cosmopolitan

Inside the Private Location Where Team USA Trains (and Recovers) in Paris A suburban gym outside the city turned out to be Team USA’s haven during the 2024 Olympic Games. BY KRISTY ALPERT Something feels inherently spammy about an email from an obscure marketing agency in Cyprus requesting to “pop in” on…

Food & Wine

Team USA’s Competitive Advantage is Eating Well “In the realm of athletic performance, food is far more than sustenance.” By Kristy Alpert All eyes have turned to Team USA as our Olympians continue to bring home an impressive amount of medals, making history as the most awarded delegation and also becoming…

Cosmopolitan

All About Olympian Naomi Girma, Team USA’s Once-in-a-Generation Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe said it best: Naomi is “going to be the future of the team for a long time,” so it’s time to get to know her.  BY KRISTY ALPERT John Todd/ISI Photos/USSF//Getty Images Watch Naomi Girma playing soccer once and you’ll see…

Cosmopolitan

How Team USA Is Prioritizing Mental Health at the 2024 Olympics Team GB gets sleep pods. What do our athletes get? Turns out, a lot. BY KRISTY ALPERT Maja Hitij//Getty Images We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. When Simone Biles pulled out…

Global Traveler

Nurtured by Nature: Revitalize Through the Healing Properties of Indigenous Plants and Minerals at The Spa at Pebble Beach By Kristy Alpert I paused to let a golf cart pass as I emerged from a cypress-shaded route, the road ahead curving as it guided me into one of the Monterey Peninsula’s…

Cosmopolitan

I Didn’t Want Kids. Then I Lost My Period. Then I Suddenly Wanted Kids? First came love, then came marriage, then came…this kind of wild saga. KRISTY ALPERT My mind was racing as I jogged to a pharmacy in the Balinese village where I’d spent the past month surfing, studying…

Cosmopolitan

The Weird Symptoms of My Traumatic Brain Injury—and the Freak Accident That Caused It Why is it so hard to spot a TBI? BY STACEY REYNOLDS, AS TOLD TO ANTONIA DEPACE AND KRISTY ALPERT LAURA STOLFI/STOCKSY UINTED I knew I’d seen her white-framed glasses before, many times even, but I was…

Men’s Health

People are Freaking Out About Covid Infections After Vaccination Don’t worry—it’s not a sign that vaccines aren’t working. BY KRISTY ALPERT LJUBAPHOTOGETTY IMAGES It was more than just the fans who noticed when Yankee’s shortstop Gleyber Torres didn’t take the field during a game in early May against the Tampa Bay…