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Glowing skin isn’t just from good genes. What you eat can also help your skin function at its best, so it produces healthy new skin cells. Some vitamins and antioxidants are especially helpful for cell turnover and strengthening skin cells, including beta-carotene, vitamin C, collagen, polyphenols and omega-3 fats, according to nutritionist Joy Bauer. She recommends ground flaxseeds, strawberries, kale and matcha tea powder as great foods for healthy, glowing skin.

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Even when we know people’s names, why do we go for days without using them? By using someone’s name, you help them feel seen and acknowledged — and that’s an act of kindness. According to kindness.org’s research in collaboration with the University of Oxford, doing a kind act increases happiness, well-being, trust and compassion. And it can have the same powerful effect on those who receive the act. Try it, and put a smile on both your faces.

Creating a continuous, soothing sound backdrop might help some people with sleep. But not all sound is created equal. The best sound to help you get quality deep sleep and target the memory-forming period called slow wave sleep might be “pink noise,” researchers said. Playing lower-frequency sounds in bursts, or pink noise, can have a different effect than the white noise standard in many sound machines. Pink noise could even help with age-related memory challenges.