Preventing disease is usually fairly straightforward. Prevention is never perfectly guaranteed to work (nothing in medicine is), but most of the time, we can prevent lung cancer by avoiding smoking and air pollution. We can prevent pregnancy by using reliable contraception. We can prevent paralysis from polio by getting a polio vaccine. However, preventing disease […]
Just about a year ago, the country shut down. Kids were pulled from school and businesses closed. We hunkered down in our houses, fearful of what was to come. We have lived with this pandemic for a year, and during that time, we have learned a lot. We have been bombarded with messages about washing
I hear from patients all the time that they think their metabolism is “broken”. In fact, metabolism is not simply one thing. The definition of metabolism is the sum of the processes by which a particular substance (energy) is handled in the living body. Everybody’s metabolism is different and is composed of 4 primary things:
Obesity is a disease that affects all of us. If you don’t struggle, chances are really high that someone you care about deeply suffers from this disease. In addition to affecting the individual health of people, this disease is costing our country billions of dollars. Billions of dollars in direct healthcare costs. Billions of dollars