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...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Jun 28, 2022 | Health
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of humans in the world. This same disease process causes both heart attacks and strokes; one is just in the heart and the other in the brain. More than 800,000 people in the U.S. die from heart disease every year. Nearly...
