These days, it’s all too easy to grab over-the-counter chemical laxatives every time our digestive train slows down and we get constipated. Folks, those drugs aren’t the answer. If you use laxatives too often, your body may forget… Continue Reading
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Yoga Gets High Marks for Cardiovascular Benefits
Add yoga to your list of heart-friendly habits. That’s the conclusion from German researchers who conducted a comprehensive review of several dozen previous studies on the effects of yoga on cardiovascular disease risk factors. After analyzing the data, involving forty-four… Continue Reading
Happiness for Health
In Anatomy of an Illness, his bestselling book in the early 1980s, Norman Cousins describes how a positive attitude and laughter can assist the body in overcoming disease. Cousins’ own personal experience involved a seriously debilitating condition called ankylosing… Continue Reading
12 Healthy Dieting Tips
Losing weight – that you plan to keep off – is not about “going on a diet.” It’s about incorporating healthy dieting tips like these into your regular routine to effectively change your lifestyle habits, including what and… Continue Reading
Lower Your Blood Pressure with Yoga
The beneficial effects of yoga on blood pressure have been studied going back to 1975, but the practice hasn’t been widely welcomed in the medical world. A study at the University of Pennsylvania may not open any more… Continue Reading
How to Fix Erectile Dysfunction
Myth: The only remedy for erectile dysfunction is a pharmaceutical pill. Fact: As erectile dysfunction is often a symptom of underlying cardiovascular issues, adopting lifestyle habits that bolster cardiovascular health and improve blood flow can help alleviate ED… Continue Reading
Benefits of Meditation
What do Paul McCartney, actor Hugh Jackman, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, shock jock Howard Stern, and director David Lynch and I have in common? Well, we’re all busy people and we meditate. We are, in fact, also all enthusiastic… Continue Reading
Exercise for Seniors
More Important than Ever…Even with all the magic that supplements and medication can provide, I have frequently reminded patients over the years about going back to basics in order to attain good health. Exercise is one of the… Continue Reading
Hatha Yoga
“Yoga is an ancient Sanskrit word meaning “union” – a perfect description of an approach to precious harmony between mind and body. There are six distinct schools of yoga, but the type known as hatha yoga is the… Continue Reading
Antiarrythmics
This class of drugs includes Tambocor (flecainide), Procanbid (procainamide), Cordarone (amiodarone), Betapace (sotalol), and Lanoxin (digitalis or digoxin). Arrhythmia is the diagnosis used by cardiologists when the heartbeat is irregular or its rhythm is abnormal, due to problems… Continue Reading