Keeping the Brain Sharp

Keeping the Brain Sharp: How Memory Games Can Help with Alzheimer’s

The saying goes: if you don’t use it, you lose it. Keeping your brain sharp with games, activities, and learning new things helps tremendously reduce your risk for Alzheimer’s Disease. When you regularly stimulate your brain, it’s like exercise for your brain and helps it stay healthy for longer. How to Exercise Your Brain Currently, …

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Alzheimer’s: Getting to the Heart of Prevention

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive form of dementia that causes the cells in the brain and their connections to deteriorate. Anyone can get Alzheimer’s, though family history and other factors increase your risk. Since its discovery, we’ve learned a great deal of information about Alzheimer’s. Most notably, we are learning what we can do …

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Having asthma flare-ups this winter?

Winter Asthma Flare-Up Prevention

The colder temperatures and drier air in winter can trigger flare-ups in many chronic conditions. Wintertime is especially hard on individuals with asthma and is potentially dangerous. To keep a handle on winter asthma flare-ups, we have some guidelines that will help. Asthma and Winter Asthma is a chronic condition of the airways of the …

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Know Your OA Triggers

If you have osteoarthritis (OA), you may have various methods you do to help ease the pain. You may take medication, apply topical creams over your painful joints, even avoid certain foods. Unfortunately, even faithfully following the best-laid plans may still leave you dealing with pain and other OA symptoms. Sometimes other factors can cause …

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Fall Foods for OA Sufferers

Pain, swelling, and stiffness are what individuals with osteoarthritis (OA) typically feel daily. When tackling these symptoms, you don’t want to overlook the power of what you eat. With the changing of the seasons, we have some fall foods for OA sufferers you may want to consider. OA and What We Eat Osteoarthritis involves a …

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Happy Health Education Week

Low T: Truth Through Education

National Health Education Week (NHEW) occurs this month during the week of October 18th-22nd. NHEW focuses on increasing national awareness of major public health issues and promoting a better understanding of the role of health education. In celebration of this initiative, this blog features common myths about low T. These misconceptions continue preventing men from …

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World Heart Day

World Heart Day and COPD

Heart disease and stroke claim over 18 million lives globally each year, making them the world’s leading cause of death. World Heart Day takes place on September 29th and serves as a platform to raise awareness about cardiovascular disease. 24 million Americans have COPD, and it can have a direct impact on the cardiovascular system. …

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