Many folks use a vacation in the summer to re-charge their health. But you may not be optimizing the benefits of your time off. It turns out there are a few tips you can follow before, during and after that can boost your vacation-related health benefits.

Vacations can help you reset your health, thereby refreshing body and mind. But research at the University of California, Berkeley, shows that some vacations can profoundly improve your well-being at a cellular level.

Eating a gluten-free diet at home can be a challenge. But when you travel, staying gluten-free presents a whole new set of problems. If you’re sensitive to gluten, you have to remain especially vigilant to avoid accidentally ingesting a food containing gluten; this ingredient is hidden in many unexpected places. If you let down your culinary guard in a strange city, you may suffer extreme digestive upset or other auto-immune reactions to this problematic protein.