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Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is a rapid, irregular heartbeat that causes the blood to pool in your heart. This can allow clots to form that can travel to your brain and cause a stroke. There are a number of risk factors for AFib, including being over 60 years or age or having diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure or prior heart attacks. But even seemingly unrelated…
According to Gallup, approximately 15 million U.S. adults now say they’ve used injectable prescription drugs to lose weight. Yet, while these GLP-1 drugs, better known by brand names like Ozempic and Wegovy, are having their moment in the sun, more and more reports of serious side effects are stacking up. Luckily, recent research has proved that you don’t have to risk the dangers of these drugs to lose weight. In…
Shakespeare once said that the eyes are the windows to the soul, expressing the belief that a person’s emotions can be read through their eyes. But that’s not all that the eyes can reveal… It turns out that our eyes can provide a glimpse into what else can be going on in the body, including hints about many health ailments — and not just those affecting the eyes. In some…
Carotenoids are the pigments responsible for the bright colors of fruits and vegetables. But they do a lot more than give foods like red peppers and orange carrots their bright colors… According to scholars, aging is defined as the progressive impairment of physiological integrity over time. The biggest contributors to that destruction are reactive oxygen species (ROS) — the catalysts at the core of the “Theory of Free Radical Aging.”…
Do you spend several hours a week at the gym, running the treadmill and lifting weights to reach a weight goal? Or maybe you work out at home, streaming fitness videos and hitting the pavement to get your steps in after lunch and supper. Maybe you’ve been at it for a while but not seeing the results you were hoping for in the mirror — and you’ve started to question…
We tend to think of depression as a mood disorder. As such, we expect it to manifest psychological feelings — like persistent sadness, anxiousness, hopelessness or pessimism. We might also feel irritable, worthless or helpless and lose interest in hobbies or activities we once enjoyed. Depression can even make a person have dark thoughts that include suicide. These feelings are associated with the mind. But depression isn’t just a disease…
My father died at age 83 of Parkinson’s disease. Dad’s progression from being slightly clumsy, to having tremors, a shuffling gait and the “mask face” that Parkinson’s stiff muscles can cause, took about ten years. In 2008, shortly after dad passed, a flurry of research began into the true origins and causes of this devastating disease. Today, that research continues… Peak Chelation+ Resveratrol™ Your body is exposed to…
As a preventive cardiologist, one of the most common conditions I treat is hypertension. And no wonder — nearly half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure, an otherwise silent condition that can lead to serious complications like heart disease or stroke. Medications can help, but most of my patients are interested in minimizing their need for those and deploying every lifestyle avenue available to achieve their BP goal. Losing…
For decades now, metabolic syndrome and the health issues it causes, like heart disease, diabetes and stroke have been on the rise. Sadly, if you’re living with even a single one of these cardiometabolic diseases, your risk of death doubles. End up with more than one of them and your chances of dying are now four to seven times greater — frightening facts that make finding ways to prevent these…
If you’re living with a leaky bladder, you’re not alone. Urinary incontinence affects more than half of middle-aged women and up to 80 percent of women by the time they reach their senior years. Not only is it an embarrassing and socially isolating condition, but it can present unexpected dangers… An overactive bladder is among the biggest risk factors for falls and fractures among senior women. A broken hip is…