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...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Jun 21, 2022 | Health, Optimization
Everyone experiences stress. It’s unavoidable, and it can even help us at times. The question is, are you in control of your stress, or is stress in control of you? In this post, we’ll look at what stress is, what it does, and the impact of stress on your habits and...
