Tips for Improving Health

Health for the Ages

I hope this summer note finds you re-discovering aspects of your lives that bring you joy and pleasure.

It is now also a good opportunity to re-orient ourselves to our routine general health. The interruption in day to day health related encounters had been previously somewhat disrupted, no doubt.

OFFICE INFORMATION for PATIENTS

I will be out of the office between 9/10/23 and 9/28/23 for R & R (rest and recuperation).

You are asked to contact the office at 561-368-0191 for all your routine and urgent needs during that period. Make sure to contact me prior to those dates so I can accommodate your needs.

The office staff can assist you with basic questions and refills. My Board Certified associate will be available for all medical needs. I cannot assure you that any phone calls, texts or emails will be received by me in my absence and do not want you to miss an opportunity to be cared for.

Please contact the office prior to that time period for a follow up visit or other concerns that I may assist with while present.

Back to Health

Maintaining good health is an asset for all of us. Re-visiting the beneficial aspects of prevention and early detection of disease never gets old. We all at some time, have found “an ounce of prevention” to be truly “worth a pound of cure”, as Benjamin Franklin first expressed.

Some of the tools and indications for screening for early disease have changed in the recent years. The approach, and the different age groups have been reassessed based on clinical medical study.

The American Cancer Society’s most recent advice is as follows. All your medical history should be reviewed by your doctor as […]

Resilience –  the capability to adjust to misfortune or change

All of us have had the shared experience of the last two and one half years. Change brought on by a once in a multi-generational timespan, biological event, that has occurred intermittently for millennia. Together we have weathered that adversity with the support of the development of therapies, cures and preventive practices to help us survive. We have shown resilience.

Much is spoken of wellness. Most choose it over illness. We have all heard of the Mind-Body connection, the concept that how we think can beneficially, or adversely, affect our general health. Healing encompasses both.

Oft times we employ seemingly contradictory terms to describe things and concepts. Some examples are “driving on a parkway”; or say, “parking in a driveway”. Another example is the term “fruits and vegetables”. It is similar, in that, a healthy diet suggests 3-4 times more servings of vegetables than fruits. A plant based diet should be just that, and does not exclude animal products, as does the choice of a vegan or vegetarian diet.

The Mind-Body connection can thusly be considered in a similar fashion. The mind resides in the organ, the brain, one of the organ systems of the body. The circulatory, respiratory, digestive and excretory systems of the body join the central and peripheral nervous system in the health of our body. We live in our town and community, but we basically live solely… in our body.

Care of the Body

Good nutrition, individualized physical activity, good sleep hygiene and routine medical and gynecological check-ups help us maintain our general health and promote healthy longevity.

Many cancers can be treated and controlled if found early. https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2021/cancer-facts-and-figures-2021.pdf

A plant based diet is […]