by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Nov 15, 2022 | Health
Many people have hypertension, or high blood pressure, and don’t even know it. Often, they don’t know their blood pressure is rising unless they’ve been measuring it, and once they start experiencing symptoms, it’s often too late. Left untreated, high blood pressure...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Oct 25, 2022 | Health
It’s no secret that getting enough quality sleep is important for your health. While that may feel like a commodity for some, those hours of shut-eye are invaluable. During good quality rest, your body does everything from fighting off illness to naturally reducing...
by Dr. Craig Veatch | Sep 27, 2022 | Health
If you’re middle-aged or older, you may have noticed you’re experiencing more aches and pains than you used to. What was once a little soreness after a pickup game of basketball or racquetball has turned into a lingering ache that never goes away. Is it...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Sep 6, 2022 | Health, Medical Conditions, Prevention
When you think of environmental causes of hypertension (high blood pressure), you might picture stress-inducing traffic jams in crowded cities. Lots of people packed in a small space, yelling and honking at each other. It’s a stressful situation, and stress does lead...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Jul 26, 2022 | Health
More than 35% of American adults are sleep-deprived. That’s millions of people struggling through their days with insufficient rest, many times on less than six hours a night. Sometimes people think they’re doing okay on little sleep. But sleep affects everything we...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Jul 12, 2022 | Health, Optimization
Whenever a new diet becomes popular, health professionals get a lot of questions. Sometimes we have to spend a lot of time and energy debunking a popular fad or convincing our patients why the latest trend isn’t a cure-all. So when intermittent fasting first came into...