by Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum | Mar 7, 2022 | Treating Diseases
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...
by Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum | Feb 2, 2022 | Healthy Living, Treating Diseases
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...
by Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum | Jan 26, 2022 | Treating Diseases
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...
by Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum | Jan 19, 2022 | Healthy Living, Treating Diseases
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...
by Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum | Jan 14, 2022 | Healthy Living, Treating Diseases
There are two main forms of fatty liver disease: Alcoholic Liver Disease: this results from heavy drinking and causes accumulation of fat in the liver. Moderate drinking is defined as one drink a day for women and up to two drinks per day for men. About 5% of people...
by Dr. Marianne Teitelbaum | Dec 24, 2021 | Healthy Living, Treating Diseases
Heart disease is still the leading cause of death in the United States. It accounts for 1/3 of all the deaths, which basically means 1 death every 40 seconds from heart disease even though so many people are on statin drugs to lower their cholesterol and are following...
