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5Jan, 2021

The Best Diet for You

Health Basics, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Nutrition

The start of a new year is traditionally the time to turn the page on the bad habits and disappointments of the previous year.

Usually near the top of the list of New Year’s resolutions that people make is the decision to lose weight. And from a health perspective, our concierge doctors certainly applaud that one.

Overweight or obesity is responsible for a host of chronic diseases, from type 2 diabetes to backaches to joint pain. So you want to achieve and maintain a healthy body weight, right? But which diet is best?

21Dec, 2020

Studies Say Running May Actually Be Good for Your Knees

MD 2.0

Healthy Living, Lifestyle

Of course running is bad for your knees, right? Everybody knows this. After all, it only makes sense. You’re bringing the full weight of your body down on these joints with every step, so you’re wearing out the cartilage from overuse.

But our concierge doctors have often found that what seems like “common sense” is anything but, which is why we look to science for answers.

14Dec, 2020

Sitting Is the New Smoking

MD 2.0

Health Basics, Healthy Living, Lifestyle

If you’ve been one of those fortunate enough to be able to work at home during the pandemic, you’ve probably been glued to your chair for eight or more hours a day. At least at the office you might have been able to walk around from desk to desk, or take the stairs, or take a walk at lunch.

Whereas at home, our concierge doctors are guessing that you get very little chance to move at all. And that could be detrimental to your health.

8Dec, 2020

Check Out Chocolate for Your Health

MD 2.0

Disease, Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Let’s face it—this has been a lousy year. We’ve either lost or postponed so many of our normal pleasures, it’s no wonder that we’re feeling deprived. But our concierge doctors have a prescription that can help cheer you up: chocolate.

And ‘tis the season for it, after all. Not to mention that, as we’ll explain below, it can be healthier than eggnog, frosted cookies and cakes, and all the other sugarplums we’re inclined to consume this time of year.

10Nov, 2020

How to Celebrate the Holidays Safely

MD 2.0

Concierge Medicine, Disease, Healthy Living, Holiday Safety, Lifestyle

As we head into the holidays, our concierge doctors are concerned that pandemic fatigue might tempt people to throw caution to the winds and just celebrate, starting with Thanksgiving.

The fact is, we’re all fed up with the “new normal.” People want more than anything to return to the way our lives were before this scourge attacked the world early this year. Pandemic fatigue is not only real, it’s totally understandable.

12Oct, 2020

Weighted Blankets May Help with Insomnia

MD 2.0

Healthy Living, Lifestyle

Our concierge doctors note the stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic affects large portions of our population. This has manifested in many ways, including a sharp increase in insomnia.

Even without the pandemic, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates that between 30 and 40 percent of the population experiences insomnia regularly. A 2005 National Sleep Foundation (NSF) poll showed more than half of respondents reported experiencing insomnia at least a few nights a week in the past year. Thirty-three percent said they had insomnia every night or nearly every night for the past year.

And since the advent of the pandemic, prescriptions for sleep medications are up 15 percent, according to pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts. The UCLA Sleep Disorders Center reports insomnia complaints have soared 20-30 percent.

5Oct, 2020

Healthy Habits Can Conquer Chronic Medical Conditions

MD 2.0

Disease, Health Basics, Healthy Living, Lifestyle

We’ve heard a great deal lately about how those with chronic conditions—diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity—are more likely to become sicker when exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. Even leaving aside the coronavirus, many individuals have thought that having multiple chronic medical conditions such as those or others (cancer, asthma, coronary artery disease, and so forth) doomed them to a premature death.

But our concierge doctors have recently come across some good news for those people. It turns out that healthy lifestyle habits can overcome multiple types of chronic conditions and help extend your life.

21Sep, 2020

What You Should Know About Cholesterol

MD 2.0

Health Basics, Lifestyle

Since September is National Cholesterol Education Month, our concierge doctors want to review the often-confusing facts about this vital blood component.

18May, 2020

The Epidemic Threatening the U.S.: Obesity

MD 2.0

Health Basics, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Amid all the frenzy across the media about the coronavirus, a disturbing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study dropped last month with barely a ripple. It found that the obesity rate in the U.S. continues to edge up, from 40 percent in a 2015-16 study to 42 percent in the current 2017-18 study.

16Apr, 2020

How to Cope with the Stress of COVID-19

MD 2.0

Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Preventative Health

Perhaps the only people who might relate to the stress everyone is feeling these days are those few who were alive during the flu pandemic of 1918-1920 (yes, it lasted three years). Then, as today, the pandemic caused global industry shutdowns, overcrowded hospitals, mandatory closures, and people huddled in their homes in fear.

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