There is a vine in the Amazon that climbs like a prayer. It does not hurry. It does not conquer. It spirals - patiently - around the rainforest’s ancient pillars of wisdom, as if it remembers what modern life forgets: that healing is not an event. Healing is a relationship with reality. To the Indigenous lineages who have safeguarded this medicine through centuries of conquest, displacement, and spiritual criminalization, Mother Ayahuasca is not a “psychedelic.” She is a livi

Kaley started using YouTube at the age of 6, downloading the app on her iPod Touch to watch videos about lip gloss collections and the online kids game Animal Jam. She posted her first video when she was 8 — in it, she played Animal Jam as an otter character, singing in a put-on British accent. A year later, she downloaded and began posting on Instagram, circumventing a guardrail her mom had tried to set up to block her from the app. She says she became addicted. She started

There is a discernible and different vibe happening in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Story by William Smith/Polo Lifestyles Wine Contributor While the headwinds impacting the wine industry are nearly universal – declining and shifting consumer patterns of consumption, tariffs, climate change, risings costs, and consolidation – in many places they take on an ominous tone that points to a state of somewhat inevitable decline. In Oregon, those same challenges seem differently assi

If you are headed to the Willamette Valley, you have many choices on where to stay - from luxury hotel resorts to small boutique properties to vineyard stays. After a recent visit to Oregon wine country, we've compiled a list of quintessential Pacific Northwest properties for your consideration, and all within proximity of the region's incredible winery offerings.  Story by William Smith/Polo Lifestyles Wine Contributor Atticus Hotel atticushotel.com The beautifully appointe

Many people’s brains deteriorate as they age, becoming riddled with malfunctioning proteins that result in cell death and the loss of memory and cognition. But other people’s brains remain almost perfectly intact, their thinking as sharp at 80 as it was in their 50s. A paper published in the journal Nature provides a new potential explanation for this discrepancy, and it taps into one of the hottest debates in neuroscience: whether human brains can grow new neurons in adultho

The newest porcelain table service from Hermès, Natures Marines features hand-drawn botanical illustrations by British artist Katie Scott At Paris Design Week, Hermès presented their new porcelain table service: dubbed Natures Marines, the 34-piece collection made its debut inside an old carpentry workshop on a tidal landscape formed of sand on the cement floor. For this tableware collection, Hermès’ Artistic Directors of Home Universe Charlotte Macaux Perelman and Alexis Fab

THE SACRED HEALER OF BODY AND SOUL (BPC-157) BPC-157 is revered as a pentadecapeptide whose very origins feel mystical – derived from the stomach’s protective juices, it is as if the body distilled its own healing nectar. Known in science as Body Protection Compound, it functions like an innate healer within, orchestrating the repair of tissues with an almost supernatural efficiency. Researchers have found that BPC-157 boosts growth and angiogenic factors (vital for tissue re

I keep wondering about the confluence of a few things this past month, among them, the convergence of what feels like a world on fire with the observation of Dry January. There are a number of reasons I have typically jettisoned embracing Dry January, but this year the tumult in the world order ranks newly and highly among them. The words of CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins in a recent social media post resonate: January should come with a warning label. Hear, hear. The mere th

The Haitian-Italian designer Stella Jean once again designed and dressed the Haitian Olympic delegation with a look inspired by Haiti's revolutionary leader, Toussaint Louverture, a general in the Haitian army, usually portrayed upon his horse. The looks by Jean set the Internet on fire, citing the team as one of the best-dressed teams of the Opening Ceremony, along with Mongolia, Brazil (by Moncler) and the U.S.A. (by Ralph Lauren). Jean has worked with Olympic teams since 2

You can hear “I love you” a thousand times and still wonder how someone really feels. What often speaks louder is how they move around you, what they notice and what they quietly do when nobody is watching. I remember sitting on the sofa after a long day, too tired to explain what I needed. The person next to me did not say much. They just got up, dimmed the lights, brought me water and put my favorite show on. In that moment I felt more loved than any long speech could have