Insomnia is defined as being a sleep disorder in which you have trouble either falling and/or staying asleep, and it affects many people at some point or another in their lifetime. While you may resort to the use of sleeping pills, it is always best to try to get to...
Depression affects 1 in 15 adults in any given year. And one in six people will experience depression at some time in their life. Depression can occur at any time, but on average first appears during the late teens to the mid-20’s. Women are more likely than men to...
As with many of the diseases we are seeing nowadays, the incidence of both asthma and allergies has increased dramatically over the past 30 years. So we have to look and see what has happened over the past few decades to see what might be upsetting our children’s...
One in 3 people in the United States have prediabetes. As the name implies, your blood sugar incrementally goes up as the years go by. Up to 70% of individuals with prediabetes will eventually develop diabetes. Doctors monitor your blood work and then when it looks...
Urinary tract infections (UTI’s) are extremely common, affecting 11% of women over the age of 18 at least once a year and are most common between the ages of 8-24. UTI’s have a great tendency to recur. Recurrent UTI’s are defined as 3 episodes within the last 12...
If your doctor finds you have high blood pressure you will probably be put on blood pressure medicine and/or diuretics to bring the blood pressure down. These are important life-saving medications which we may need if the blood pressure is out of control, but we...
