Orient/System

02/03/2026

A SOUTH KOREAN BEAUTY TRADITION: RICE TONER IS ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL STEPS TO ACHIEVING A GLOWING COMPLEXION.

https://www.vogue.fr/article/meilleurs-rice-toners

Source: Vogue France, February 3, 2026.

01/30/2026

A BOOK RECOMMENDATION!
PICO IYER, THE ART OF STILLNESS, Adventures in going Nowhere (2014).
In a maddeningly busy world, our lives are crowded, hectic, chaotic and noisy. A time is coming, and that time is now, when we must slow down, tune out and give ourselves permission to walk in the woods, to forest bathe, to meditate and pray incessantly, to just sit and be still, free from smart phone interruptions.

01/23/2026

HOW TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN HEALTHY: USING THE SHIELD PLAN.
Keeping your brain healthy can reduce the risk of cognitive decline and the development of diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Dr. Rudy Tanzi – How to SHIELD the Brain (Part 1):
https://www.usagainstalzheimers.org/brainstorm/dr-rudy-tanzi-how-shield-brain-part-1

Dr. Rudy Tanzi – How to SHIELD the Brain (Part 2):
https://www.usagainstalzheimers.org/brainstorm/dr-rudy-tanzi-how-shield-brain-part-2

Source: Dr. Rudy Tanzi, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Director, McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Co-Director, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Picture Credit: Massachusetts General Hospital, The Genetics and Aging Research Unit.

01/18/2026

A CAUTIONARY NOTE ON WEIGHT LOSS DRUGS.
People tend to regain weight rapidly after stopping weight-loss drugs - and faster than after ending behavioural weight loss programmes.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01-08-new-study-finds-stopping-weight-loss-drugs-linked-faster-regain-ending-diet

Source: 'Weight regain following the cessation of medication for weight management: a systematic review and meta-analysis,'.
The British Medical Journal, University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, January 7, 2026.

People tend to regain weight rapidly after stopping weight-loss drugs - and faster than after ending behavioural weight loss programmes - according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis from researchers in Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, published in The BMJ toda...

01/12/2026

Book Recommendation!

LEARNING TO OVERCOME SELF-HATRED:
Many of us have felt self loathing at some point in our lives — having failed at a job, or lost an important relationship, or despise our looks. For some people their inner thoughts are constant drumbeats of self-criticism and self-loathing.

Author: Dr Blaise Aguirre
Child and adolescent psychiatrist
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

An Interview with Dr Blaise Aguirre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YQvBSjHOxY

01/12/2026

WHAT MAKES THE GOOD LIFE?
In a maddeningly meaningless world, numbing technologies and tumultuous politics, and with the smartphone always in hand, our lives are crowded, chaotic and noisy. There’s never been a greater need to slow down, tune out and give ourselves permission to seek solitude.

Speaker: Pico Iyer, author 17 works of fiction and nonfiction, centered around movement and stillness and the search for clarity and unity in our accelerating world.

Talk: Living with Fire: Finding Calm in a World of Uncertainty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIx1NukV0BU

Venue: Aspen Ideas Festival, June 2025.

01/04/2026

TAI CHI: A PRACTICE THAT BOOSTS YOUR BALANCE AND TRIGGERS A WHOLE RANGE OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL BENEFITS.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/improve-your-balance-with-tai-chi-this-winter

Source: Harvard Health, November 1, 2025.

Tai chi uses a series of gentle, flowing motions and slow, deep breathing to exercise the body and calm the mind. It’s good for health in many ways, especially for balance, which improves...

01/01/2026

I DREAM OF JENNIE: THE K-POP SENSATION.
Body. Beauty. Brains.

I DREAM OF JENNIE. 💕 Opening 2026 as V158’s Spring Preview cover star: Jennie — photographed by MAR+VIN.

Jennie’s fame didn’t dissolve her enigma. Instead, it gave her new tools to sculpt it. For our latest cover story, the global sensation begins the year—and her birthday month—discussing creative control, self-authorship, and the freedom of always starting again.

Read the cover story: https://vmagazine.com/article/v158-i-dream-of-jennie/

Do you dream of Jennie, too? Pre-order V158 Spring Preview 2026 now at shop.vmagazine.com.

12/17/2025

LILY COLLINS: WINTER'S SEXIEST LOOK - UNDERWEAR AS OUTER WEAR.
Wearing a skimpy, lacy, blush-toned Saint Laurent lingerie piece(Saint Laurent Resort 2026), styled with a chocolate brown trench coat and clutch bag.

SAINT LAURENT RESORT 2026:
https://tomandlorenzo.com/2025/11/saint-laurent-resort-2026-collection/

Pictured: Lily Collins, just getting off the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express train in Paris, December 14, 2025.

12/12/2025

OZEMPIC: UNDERSTANDING THE HAIR LOSS + MUSCLE LOSS ISSUES.

Ozempic has always come with side effects. The latest? Thinning hair and muscle loss. Experts break down why this might be and what you can do about it.

12/09/2025

LUNG CANCER: THE DEADLIEST CANCER FOR WOMEN IS OFTEN OVERLOOKED. HERE ARE THE SYMPTOMS YOU SHOULD KNOW.
Cancer screenings exist to try to detect the disease in its earlier stages, and ultimately to save lives. But screenings for lung cancer—the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide—are narrow, and that’s causing missed diagnoses in many people, especially women and those who have never smoked.

https://www.self.com/story/lung-cancer-women-symptoms-screening?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com/selfmagazine/library/media/612107179

Source: SELF magazine, November 24. 2025.

Experts recommend being aware of your personal lung cancer risk factors.

12/09/2025

THIRTY SOMETHING. THE CUT OFF AGE FOR PREGNANCIES?
"You keeping hearing that if you're a woman and you don’t have a baby by 35, you're screwed...It's a "reproductive cliff," people told her; any pregnancy after 35 is "geriatric."

Investigating the idea that age 35 is a "reproductive cliff" for women and where this common anxiety originated.
Molly Webster, Science Journalist/Producer, "Thirty Something" (A live Radiolab segment, March 13, 2018).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOJVAaSwags

Picture Courtesy: Pixabay.