Category: chronic disease

[Coming Soon] Can Our Brains Change? | The Dr. Monti Show

Health is key to success in the world. But sadly, most of us are not getting the right health information to live our best lives—to really thrive, to think with precision, to feel energized as we face the world each day, and to be free of illness. Health used to be what the field of…


No More Excuses—Health Coaches Assist in Achieving Longterm Change

With the start of the New Year comes a rash of determined resolutions to face personal health challenges head-on, and set goals that we hope will improve our lives. But we all know how hard it is to bridge the gap between the idea of a goal and actually seeing it through to fruition. UAB…


How a Health Coach Can Help You Achieve Your Health Goals

With the start of the New Year comes a rash of determined resolutions to face personal health challenges head-on, and set goals that we hope will improve our lives. But we all know how hard it is to bridge the gap between the idea of a goal and actually seeing it through to fruition. UAB…


5 Hours or Less of Sleep Increases Risk of Chronic Disease: Study

Sleeping for five hours or less a night if you’re age 50 or older could increase your risk of getting two or more chronic diseases as you age, research has found. The study was published on Oct. 18 in the journal PLOS Medicine. Researchers from University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom tracked the health and sleep…


15 Foods That Are Bad for Your Health (Avoid Them!) | Eat Better

There is a lot of confusion out there about which foods are healthy and which are not. In this episode of Eat Better, we will go over 15 foods that are considered very unhealthy. If you want to lose weight and avoid chronic disease, then you shouldn’t eat much of these foods. In many cases,…


Food as Medicine: The Answer to Mounting Health Crises

Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and professor emeritus at the University of California–San Francisco, has written a number of excellent books about health. His latest, “Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine,” goes deep into the details of how changes in our food supply have damaged our metabolic…


Tests to Assess Your Risk for Disease

Allopathic medicine, the common form of medicine most people use today, moves into gear when a person reaches a state of illness. But most illness comes on gradually, from a host of factors often connected to diet and lifestyle. For many of these forms of illness, early testing can reveal nutritional and biochemical markers that…