Need calm? It is far to easy these days to feel overwhelmed by concerns about your health, finances, or family. Stress and anxiety can make it difficult to enjoy life,...
Hypertension every day affects more people recently, I have had several patients in my office who have been on inappropriate blood pressure medications for different reasons. Medication given to Alex...
A short time ago while a passenger jet was climbing at 16,000 feet in the air, part of the side of the airplane blew off and they had to make...
With out a doubt, pain management has become the hot topic in today’s health care arena. It is estimated that over 85 million Americans suffer from some type of chronic...
In an unstable world, a stable mind, a fit and strong body, as well as an unshakable spirit, constitute an impenetrable shield against the devastating effects of stress and anxiety....
“I’ve done everything, and it still isn’t working!” Janice was exasperated because she was trying so hard to reverse her diabetes, but the numbers weren’t coming down. She was eating...
From a medical standpoint we are truly fortunate. For the most part, our society is free from the dread diseases of the past like the black plague, cholera, and smallpox...
Life span is ultimately determined by the fact that cells can only replicate a certain number of times a genetically predetermined cut-off point that prevents physical immortality. Understanding this, most...
Gladys has been in pain for years. It started when she sprained her wrist. It wasn’t broken, and she wore a brace for a couple of weeks, but the pain...
We have all felt it at some point in our lives: the feeling that paralyzes us and sends us into a cold sweat, causing our heart to beat at the...
“It’s easy for you, you’re so thin…” a middle-aged, obese woman with many health problems said to me mournfully. She’s discouraged because she can’t seem to make her program work....
A patient is taken to the Emergency Department of his local hospital with signs and symptoms of a stroke: one-sided weakness, speech changes, facial droop, severe headache, numbness on one...