Addressing the key determinants of health, beyond healthcare.

If you have trouble sleeping, you’re far from alone. Around 30% of U.S. adults  report such difficulty, and it’s one of the most common things that we are asked about in the clinic. In terms of what we can do about it, our starting point is always the same. Adequately addressing sleep hygiene (sleep environment, sleep timing, diet, caffeine, etc.) leads to improvement in many cases. Beyond this, cognitive behavioral therapy focused on insomnia (CBT-I) is far and away the most

Hopefully the case has been made in my last post  for why diligent cancer screening is imperative for long-term health, and readers were able to gain effective guidelines and insights regarding colorectal and breast cancer screening. Today, we’re going to focus on cervical, prostate, and lung cancer screening guidelines. 3. Cervical Starting off with cervical cancer, for which we have fairly straightforward recommendations and understanding of the disease. This cancer is stro

Every two minutes, an American life is lost to sudden cardiac death (SCD) . As the name suggests, SCD can strike without warning, and is often the result of an abrupt change in the heart’s electrical rhythm. While a heart attack (myocardial infarction) can lead to sudden cardiac death, these terms are not interchangeable. People can (and frequently do) survive heart attacks, whereas sudden cardiac death represents the loss of life due to a cardiac cause, within one hour of sy