Getting a Good Night’s Sleep
What Is Sleep? Sleep was long considered just a block of time when your brain and body shut down. Thanks to sleep research studies done over the past several decades, it is now known that sleep has distinct stages that cycle throughout the night in predictable patterns. How well rested you are and how well […]
Dejunking Your Diet The Drawbacks of Ultra-Processed Foods
Eating healthy isn’t always easy. Expert-recommended diets often emphasize fresh, whole foods and home-cooked meals. But that can be expensive and time-consuming. Highly processed foods are often cheap and convenient. But they also tend to be high in calories, added sugar, saturated fat, and salt, and low in fiber. Scientists are starting to learn that […]
Master of One
Specialties & Specialty Medicine By Alexander Germanis My wife pretty consistently chides me for having too many interests and stretching myself too thin when it comes to learning new skills. I will admit that while trying to learn a lot of things is an admirable pursuit, it does all but prevent me from […]
Radiating Wellness
Your Healthy Sunlight Goldilocks Zone By Alexander Germanis Averaging a distance of 93 million miles from the earth, the star known as Sol bathes our world in life-giving light and warmth. But our planet sits in what is known as a circumstellar habitable zone, a specific orbital distance from the sun in which […]
Reconnect National Great Outdoors Month
When I was a kid, the schoolyear mercifully came to an end in June. While it certainly meant an end to pencils, textbooks, and teachers’ dirty looks, what it truly meant to me was no more sitting inside at a desk for seven hours per day while the outside tantalizingly beckoned through the classroom window. […]
Your Health on Your Sleeve Wearable Technology
By Alexander Germanis In the 1950s, Dr. Marion Collins’ daughter nearly lost her life because no one was there to inform her doctors she was allergic to a simple tetanus shot. Determined something like that would never happen again, Dr. Collins worked with a jeweler in San Francisco to design and issue the very […]
Alcohol Awareness Month
the ripples of alcohol By Alexander Germanis From ancient Rome came the saying: In vino veritas, translated as “in wine there is truth.” It means when people are under the influence of alcohol, they are usually more likely to reveal what they truly think and feel. Similar phrases exist is nearly every culture […]
Rooted in Wellness The Health Benefits of Gardening
By Alexander Germanis Mankind has always been tied to the soil. For thousands of years, we have tilled the earth and subsisted on what has sprung forth. To this day, people around the globe continue to work the soil in order to provide for themselves, their families, and even entire nations. It’s no secret […]
Love Thyself The First Step of Healthy Living
By Alexander Germanis At this time of year, it’s nearly impossible to even go grocery shopping without being assailed by aisles of Valentines, heart-adorned stuffed animals, and Pepto Bismol-pink everything. While the over-emphasis on Valentine’s Day can be nauseating, the purpose of expressing love for another is not an ignoble pursuit. But expelling time, […]
Positive Eating Positive Living
By Alexander Germanis With every new year comes the omni-expected New Year’s Resolution. It probably comes as no surprise that the most cited resolutions are to lose weight, exercise more, eat better, or some combination or variation of those. In fact, from year to year, these “living healthier” resolutions constitute a full half of […]