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Seasonal health alerts, emerging treatments, and research I think my patients should know about.
What’s Keeping You Up at Night? Breaking the Cycle of Sleeplessness
A good night’s sleep is undeniably refreshing and revitalizing and is also essential to overall health and well-being. Sleep experts continue to emphasize that healthy sleep is just as important as proper nutrition and regular exercise. Consistently poor sleep has...
Celebrate the Power of Colorful Produce
Fill your plate with a vibrant, colorful array of fruits and vegetables for a naturally delicious way to meet your daily requirement of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. Plant foods contain natural compounds called phytonutrients, which may have anti-inflammatory...
Breathing Easier: What’s New in Seasonal Allergy Care
Seasonal allergies affect about one in four American adults, and if you’re among them, you know the routine: weeks of sneezing, congestion, itchy eyes, sinus pressure, and disrupted sleep. The immune system mistakes harmless pollen for a threat, triggering a cascade...
The Food Safety Edge: Why It Matters More After 40
For many, foodborne illness is something we associate with a bad restaurant meal or a short-lived stomach bug. But as we move through middle age and beyond, food safety becomes less about inconvenience and more about protecting our health and resilience. With that in...
A New, Hopeful Era for Brain Health
From prevention to precision care, a new wave of research is reshaping what it means to protect your memory and thinking For generations, a diagnosis of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease signaled a one-way journey of irreversible decline that slowly eroded memory,...
Spirituality in Medicine: Rediscovering an Ancient Dimension of Healing
Modern medicine excels at treating disease, yet true healing can go beyond correcting an abnormal lab value or repairing an injury. It involves restoring wholeness of body, mind, and spirit. Increasingly, we recognize that spirituality is a powerful dimension of...