Everyone knows someone who must be lying about their age. After all, how can they look like that and have all that energy if they were as old as you? After about 35 or 40, I’d say “the real you” starts to show, and it will typically go one way or the other. Some will…
Your Plan for Better Aging
December 4, 2021
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The Profound Health Benefits of Being Grateful
Gratitude is a simple practice that can have profound effects on your health and well-being. Positive effects linked to gratitude include social, psychological, and physical benefits, which increase the more you make gratitude a regular part of your daily routine. “The limits to gratitude’s health benefits are really in how much you pay attention to…
Top 5 Reasons Never to Take a Proton Pump Inhibitor
December 3, 2021
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Millions of doses of “acid blocking” proton pump inhibitor drugs are doled out every year, yet most doctors and their patients are completely oblivious to their adverse effects, like increased risk for premature death. Proton pump inhibitors are a type of drug commonly known as acid-blockers, whose primary purpose is to reduce the amount of…
Top 5 Reasons Never to Take a Proton Pump Inhibitor (Acid Blocker)
December 3, 2021
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Millions of doses of “acid blocking” proton pump inhibitor drugs are doled out every year, yet most doctors and their patients are completely oblivious to their adverse effects, like increased risk for premature death. Proton pump inhibitors are a type of drug commonly known as acid-blockers, whose primary purpose is to reduce the amount of…
If Weight Loss Is Your Only Goal for Exercise, It’s Time to Rethink Your Priorities
December 2, 2021
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As an aesthetic society, we often demonize body fat and stigmatize people with lots of it. There’s often an assumption that people carrying excess weight don’t exercise and must be unhealthy. But that’s not true: you can be fat and fit. In fact, as we age, low levels of fitness can be more harmful to our health than high amounts of…
A Stitch in Time
About 20 years ago, I was offered the opportunity to play Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire in a History Channel miniseries. I didn’t have a speaking part—just a reenactment. McGuire was the surgeon who happened to amputate the left arm of Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Jackson died of infection from his wounds. The interesting thing about those…
Migraine Increases Risk of Severe Skin Sensitivity
December 1, 2021
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People with migraines experience sensitivity to sound, smell, and light. During some recent studies, researchers have found that migraine can also lead to severe skin sensitivity. This side effect of migraine is called allodynia—pain that is triggered by something that isn’t usually painful, for instance, rubbing one’s head, wearing necklaces, putting on clothes, combing hair,…
How to Determine Good Medicine From Bad Medicine
November 30, 2021
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The explosion in health care options now available to the average North American can be daunting. But with a framework for what constitutes good medicine, bad medicine and everything in between, you should be able to dispel some of this uncertainty. To get a complete picture of both good and bad medicine, one has to…
How My Family Beat COVID-19
My family contracted COVID-19 in mid-summer of 2021. We fully recovered within 2 1/2 weeks and haven’t experienced any long-term symptoms, or what’s commonly referred to as long COVID. Others haven’t been as fortunate. As of November, according to a report from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, between 3 million and 10…
Alternative Treatments For Alzheimer’s Disease
November 28, 2021
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According to the World Health Organization, around 50 million people worldwide suffer from dementia, with Alzheimer’s predominantly being the most common form. About 60 to 70 percent of all reported cases of dementia are diagnosed as Alzheimer’s. Current Alzheimer’s Treatments While there is no current cure for Alzheimer’s disease, there are various prescription drugs, such…
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