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Magic Pill is a 21-day exercise challenge. Once you sign up, we’ll email you a new episode every morning along with inspirational stories, tips and music to help you get up and go.
The Magic Pill, hosted by Dr. Eddie Phillips of Harvard Medical School and Carey Goldberg of WBUR’s CommonHealth, is a quick and uplifting mix of stories, science, tips and new music, all aimed at helping you feel better about exercise for the rest of your life.
You might want to sign up right now for a marathon, but in this episode we discuss the upside of slow, gradual change.
Chances are, whether now or later, you'll fall off your new exercise wagon. If/when you do, you might try a little self-compassion.
Your life may be so demanding that you really, truly have no time to get to the gym. But Episode 6 of The Magic Pill...
In this episode we examine how social bonds can help motivate us to exercise.
Our minds can come up with so many reasons not to exercise. This episode offers a reality check on which reasons actually make sense.
We look at how important strength training is to your overall fitness, and how building muscle mass can help you maintain weight loss.
Magic Pill takes a look at how exercise can improve our mood.
From walking to outdoor Zumba, super-cheap and free exercise options abound.
We don't stop moving because we age, we age because we stop moving. Today Magic Pill looks at how we can age better.
The playground workout is part of the "lifestyle exercise" concept of fitting exercise into your life where and when you can.
From endometriosis to fibromyalgia to arthritis, exercise has been shown to help with all sorts of pain conditions -- and may even help increase pain...
It's a whole lot easier to exercise if it's fun. We look at how the meaning physical activity changes as you age and how to...
Fear -- of death, pain, disease -- isn't the best motivator. But for a lot of us, it's what keeps us committed to exercise.
What do you do if where you live and work gets in the way of moving more? From biking to walking groups and other special...
We take a small step towards combating all the the fitness misinformation that's floating around out there.
New ideas are likelier to occur to us when we're moving than when we're not. We take a look at Beethoven's daily routine as an...
Today's episode of Magic Pill is totally superficial: it's not about how we feel, it's about how we look.
In our final episode we lift the curtain a bit and talk about what motivates "lifestyle medicine" doctors like host Eddie Phillips, and offer resources...
We asked Margaret Moore, a leading wellness coach also known as Coach Meg, to offer some key tips for mentally preparing to start a new,...
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