When it comes to stress, balance is the key. Too little makes us bored and lazy; too much leads to anxiety and can suppress the immune system. Stress isn’t just unpleasant things like being laid off or going through a divorce, or coping with years like 2020 and 2021....
80-100 million people in the United States have a fatty liver. A fatty liver usually has no symptoms, so diagnosis often occurs by accident when an imaging study (such as an abdominal ultrasound, CT scan, or MRI) is requested for another reason. A fatty liver may also...
October is Liver Awareness Month so it’s a good time to take a look at the liver and its important functions. The liver weighs about 3 pounds and is about the size of a football. It is both an organ and a gland. The liver has 500 functions, mainly digestion and...
Inflammation refers to your body’s response against things that can harm it, such as infections, injuries, and toxins. The body responds with inflammation in order to protect itself so it can repair injuries and fight invaders, such as bacteria and viruses. Think of...
September is Healthy Aging Month, so here are 7 anti-aging health tips. Growing older is not an illness, but the passing years do make the body more vulnerable to disease. Why is this? A significant number of problems faced by people over the age of 60 years may also...
It is possible to maintain good health as you age rather than succumb to “inevitable” degenerative conditions. Degenerative conditions are not inevitable if you take actions to control and optimize your metabolism. What is Metabolism? Metabolism is the process by...
