CARDIOLOGY, PRIMARY CARE AND NUTRITION

All Posts Tagged: exercise and health

Podcast: Practice Choosing Hard Things

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  We have so many nutritional options and things to choose leading to confusion and indecision.  There is more dietary advise advertised than just about anything else.  Eating is glamorous, social, and is portrayed as having a large role in our overall happiness.  Admitting that our food choices play a […]
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Podcast: Cleaning Out the Metabolic Garage

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  We accumulate metabolic waste just like we accumulate junk in the garage.  You might be able to use some of it, but most likely it just sits there and rusts.  How do you get it out? Does exercise prevent it?  Life long exercisers or very active people seem to […]
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Podcast: Don’t worry so much about the pictures

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  That applies to x-rays and images well.  As physicians we tend to look to fix numbers and pictures and assume it will result in better health for our patients.  Sometimes the treatment side effects don’t really affect overall life span and […]
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Podcast: Hydrating for Health

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  The accumulation of metabolic waste is the source of many lifestyle diseases.  But where is the waste accumulating and how do we get rid of it?  As a cardiologist, I look at the blood vessel as an area that accumulates waste such as cholesterol, triglycerides, white blood cells, and […]
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January – A time to start the next challenge!

Each month within our practice, I host a wellness challenge of sorts. We go from steps to strength training, circuits to mobility, cardio minutes to nutrition check-ins. It is a way to up the ante if you will. You may be doing very well with your nutrition and wellness but feel in a rut. January […]
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Podcast: Is Your Nutrition on Autopilot?

Welcome! and Thank you for listening!  Are you on nutrition autopilot?  Do you skip breakfast or grab a smoothie then graze your way into lunch? Is your desk drawer at work filled with snacks that don’t count in your nutrition log?  Have you planned dinner, or will you just grab something on the way home?  […]
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Blogpost: Too Young to Die

I never thought it would be this soon. He wasn’t in very good health, but I didn’t think he would die. Those words are all too familiar. Too young, too soon. What could have been done. I became a physician to try to decrease the times those words would be spoken. Thirty four years later […]
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