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L'Oreal Thompson Payton

L’Oreal Thompson Payton is a Chicago-based, award-winning journalist, brand storyteller, author and speaker. She was a health and wellness reporter on Fortune's Well team covering life, health, mind, family and more. She has written articles that appeared in SELF, Shondaland, and Well + Good, among others, and held editing and reporting roles at YR Media, Jet magazine and the Baltimore Sun.

She is a graduate of Loyola University Maryland. When she’s not busy writing -- which, to be fair, isn’t often -- L’Oreal can usually be found reading, dancing or doing yoga.

https://www.ltinthecity.com/

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  • 11 Gratitude Exercises to Help You Adopt a More Positive Mindset
    10 May 2024—The Output (Peloton)
    In this article Although they have a way of trending around Thanksgiving, gratitude exercises are worthwhile habits all year long. Research suggests that a regular gratitude practice can increase happiness and life satisfaction while reducing negative feelings and depressive symptoms. “Gratitude, in general, means thankfulness,” says Joseph Galasso, PsyD, a clinical and sport psychologist and CEO of Baker Street Behavioral Health. “When one refers to cultivating gratitude, we are speaking...
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  • Can Sleeping with Socks On Help You Snooze Better?
    25 Mar 2024—The Output (Peloton)
    There are two types of people in this world: those who sleep with socks on and those who don’t. (For the record, I am firmly in the second category.) But as it turns out, those who do may be onto something. Sleeping with socks can support your body’s internal temperature drop that happens when you nod off, potentially improving the quality of your snoozing. That’s because the warmth you get from wearing socks to bed may help with distal vasodilation. This physiological process enhances blood...
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  • You Aren't Washing Your Water Bottle Enough. Here's How to Keep It Clean.
    19 Jan 2024—The Output (Peloton)
    In this article Staying properly hydrated is a key component of good health. To drink enough H2O throughout the day, you might always keep a go-to reusable water bottle (dubbed by TikTok as the “emotional-support water bottle”) by your side. But if you’re like most people, there’s a good chance you're not washing your bottle as thoroughly or as often as you should. We don’t blame you—life gets hectic, and knowing how to clean a water bottle (and making time to actually do so) can fall to the...

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