Brain Health
When is Dizziness Dangerous?
What to Do When You’re Dizzy, and How to Tell if You Need Medical Help We don’t often talk about it, but there’s a lot of dizziness going around. One
August 1, 2024
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Physical Activity
A Wonder Drug that Lengthens Your Healthy Lifespan!
Science is Zeroing in On It, But You Don’t Have to Wait If You Can Walk! A recent focus of medical news is that deactivating a protein called IL-11 has
July 25, 2024
Health & Wellness
COVID Spikes Again! What You Need to Know
You Don’t Need to Wear a Mask in the Pool, But You Do Need to Know About the New Surging Variants! And you thought all we had to worry
July 18, 2024
Health & Wellness
This Summer is a Killer! Could You Be a Victim?
What the Meteorologists are Not Telling You About the Killer Heat! It’s like that horror film villain nobody sees coming. Extreme heat is the number-one weather-related cause of death
July 11, 2024
Preventative Care
Arm Yourself Against This Summer’s Insect Invasion!
A Complete Guide to Avoiding Insect-Borne Disease Feeling extra buggy? It’s not your imagination! We have just survived the largest cicada invasion in more than a century. Now, thanks
July 4, 2024
Physical Activity
Yes, It Does Matter What Time You Work Out!
Workout Timing Matters, But Maybe Not in the Way You Think! Congrats! You’ve finally decided to commit to regular exercise or up your workout game. Now you just have to
June 27, 2024
Sleep
The Good News About Snoring
As Long as You’re Up…Let’s Look at Snoring in a Different Way Snoring. It can upset your sleep and your partner. Even worse, once you know that you snore, you
June 20, 2024
Health & Wellness
Holy Halitosis! Can Mouthwash Be Giving You Bad Breath?
Yep. The Mouthwash You Use to Freshen Your Breath May Be Making Things Worse! Want to hear something crazy? Americans spend about $2 billion per year on mouthwash. Market analysts
June 13, 2024
Nutrition
Smoothies: Heavenly or Hellish for Your Body?
Make Sure Your Smoothie Isn’t the Devil in Disguise Smoothies get great PR as a healthy drink for fitness enthusiasts, people on the go, those of us trying to make
June 6, 2024
Mental Health
What to Do When You’re Feeling Angry
There’s Anger and There’s ANGER! Let’s face it. On any given day, there are a multitude of things that can be truly infuriating. Gridlocked traffic. Computer crashes. The artificial,
May 30, 2024
Health & Wellness
Sunscreen 2024… Just the (Lifesaving) Facts!
It’s Not Too Late to Save Your Skin and Quite Possibly Your Life! Every year at this time almost everyone who writes about health writes about sunscreen. As we
May 23, 2024
Health & Wellness
Same Routine But Smaller Muscles? Here’s How to Stop the Shrink!
A Few Simple Tweaks Will Help You Maintain Muscle as You Age! Our hair. Our eyesight. Now, our muscles? You can’t help but notice that with each birthday, it
May 16, 2024
Health & Wellness
Finally! New Weapons in the War Against UTIs!
UTIs Have Gotten Out of Control, But That May Be About to Change! Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are miserable. They burn. They interfere with our most basic bodily functions. They
May 9, 2024
Gut Health
Uh Oh! Have You Become Lactose Intolerant?
Yes, You Are Likely Lactose Intolerant! But No, You Don’t Have to Suffer! Has almost everyone you know become lactose intolerant? Do those pains after your morning cereal mean
May 2, 2024
Health & Wellness
Say Goodbye to Tech Neck and Shoulder Pain!
It Doesn’t Have to Hurt So Much! Here’s How to Stop Screen-related Neck Pain… You’ve put in a good productive day at work, but the price for all that
April 25, 2024
Mental Health
Boundaries: A little less talk and a lot more action!
Let’s Stop Talking About Boundaries and Set Some! It seems as though everyone is talking about boundaries. There are books, YouTube videos, blogs and podcasts… so many podcasts, with
April 18, 2024
Brain Health
A Hot Body, Better Moods and a Bigger Brain? Yes Please!
This is Your Brain on Exercise…Bigger. Faster. Younger. Wow! You may remember those old anti-drug TV ads, that showed a guy cracking an egg into a hot frying pan.
April 11, 2024
Health & Wellness
Are They All That? The Scoop on the New Weight Loss Drugs
What You Should Know About the New GLP-1 Agonist Weight Loss Medications Talk about hype! They’ve been called “game-changing,” “the cure for obesity,” and were named “The 2023 Breakthrough
April 4, 2024
Health & Wellness
Why Are 64 Measly Measles Cases So Important?
It’s More Contagious Than COVID. It Can Be Deadly. And We Got Rid of It 24 Years Ago! Didn’t We? During the twelve months of 2023, there were 58 measles
March 28, 2024
Health & Wellness
Not Your Imagination! Arm Yourself Against an Aggressive Allergy Season!
How to Handle an Earlier, Longer, and Meaner Allergy Season It seems to happen every year. Like the worst type of houseguest, allergy season shows up early, aggravates us
March 21, 2024
Sleep
Are You Exhausted? You’re Not Alone, And We Can Help!
It’s National Sleep Awareness Week! So Why Are You So Tired? Actually, it is no coincidence that the National Sleep Foundation scheduled Sleep Awareness Week during the time that most
March 14, 2024
Physical Activity
This Just In: Daily Stretching Helps You Live Longer!
Stretching: It’s Not Just for Warm-ups Anymore! Unless you are a dancer, or a yogini, stretching is one of those activities that has often been considered a warm-up to
March 7, 2024
Navigating Healthcare System
When it Comes to Your Health, It’s No Time to Be Polite!
Knowledge is Power! How to Get What You Need After a New Diagnosis… Imagine this: You take the proactive step to schedule your yearly physical, get your fasting lab
February 29, 2024
Physical Activity
This One Thing Can Improve Your Life At Least Six Ways!
It Reduces Stress and Pain. It Boosts Strength, Flexibility, Balance, and Mental Focus. So, Why Isn’t Everyone Practicing Tai Chi? Tai Chi. Most of us have heard of it,
February 22, 2024
Brain Health
Blow Your Horn for a Better Brain
The Proven Brain Benefits of Tickling the Ivories, Blowing Your Horn and Singing Your Heart Out! We’ve all experienced the mood-boosting benefits of a great song. But did you
February 15, 2024
