by Dr. Frank Lipman | Mar 20, 2023 | Featured, Health & Wellness
Your gut bugs have more to do with your metabolism than you may realize –research shines a lot more light on how intertwined they may be.
by Dr. Frank Lipman | Mar 13, 2023 | Featured, Healthy Aging, Nutrition
Advances in medical science have refined our understanding of how diet and lifestyle affect glucose levels (that is, the amount of sugar that circulates in the bloodstream), putting more power in your hands to ensure that sugar isn’t doing a number on your health. It’s never been easier to identify the trouble-makers so you can clean up your sugar act before real metabolic trouble begins – and the time to start is now.
by Dr. Frank Lipman | Mar 6, 2023 | Featured, Health & Wellness, Nutrition
Taking a multivitamin is essential for sustaining your health and improving the quality of cell functioning. Most vitamins serve as catalysts to reactions occurring in our body, like the spark plugs in an automobile. Your body on the other hand is like a factory, with a hundred trillion cells working to keep you healthy. These cells need raw materials, the 13 essential vitamins, to roll down the assembly line. Without these raw materials, your body needs to scavenge from your bones or your liver, or the assembly line shuts down. This causes energy loss, pain, disease, depression and aging. So yes, you really do need a multivitamin.
by Dr. Frank Lipman | Feb 27, 2023 | Featured, Health & Wellness, Healthy Aging
So, what if your drinking doesn’t quite fall into what most would consider a problem, but more of a relaxing, end-of-day ritual? Here too, I urge you – and particularly women – to take a hard, clear-eyed look at how alcohol bashes the health of your body – even if you are doing everything else ‘right’ – and start taking steps to end this very unhealthy relationship. To get started, here’s some food for thought.
by Dr. Frank Lipman | Feb 20, 2023 | Featured, Health & Wellness, Healthy Aging
Wearable health technology has come of age, giving us a window into the working of our bodies. It represents an important step in taking control of your health – and away from Big Pharma and putting it, whenever possible, where it belongs – in your hands. One such personalized device: continuous glucose monitors or CGMs. Though they’ve been available for diabetics for about twenty years, now, ever-more refined models are attracting the interest of healthy, health-savvy customers who are using them to help ensure they never cross the line into pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes – a wise idea if ever there was one.
