Disease and Prevention

Age Management Medicine vs. Anti-Aging
(May 14, 2010 7:41 AM) Dr. Jeffry Life

  Age Management Medicine as compared to Antiaging or Anti-Aging is defined as preventive medicine focused on regaining and maintaining optimal health and vigor. Age Management Medicine incorporates ...
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Do You Need a Stress Test?
(January 04, 2010 3:00 AM) Dr. Jeffry Life

Exercise is clearly one of the most important activities anyone can do to improve and sustain great health, well-being, and slow or even prevent aging. There are risks associated with a high-intensity ...
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Why Obesity Can Cause Cancer
(December 06, 2009 3:00 AM) Dr. Jeffry Life

The results of a poll of 1,205 adults last June revealed that most Americans know that if they are overweight their chances of getting heart disease and diabetes rise, but only 25 percent of those polled ...
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The Facts Behind Syndrome X
(November 01, 2009 3:00 AM) Dr. Jeffry Life

Syndrome X has just recently been introduced into our medical terminology. It's not really a new problem, just a new name for a problem that is becoming all too prevalent-as many as 75 million Americans ...
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Research you need to know
(October 05, 2009 3:00 AM) Dr. Jeffry Life

Obesity Facts 300,000 Americans die each year from health problems related directly to obesity. 27 states have a 15 to 19 percent obesity rate. 20 states have a 20 percent or greater obesity rate. ...
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Human Heart: Just the Facts
(October 01, 2009 10:25 AM) Dr. Jeffry Life

    1.       Your heart beats 100,000 times daily, pumping 2,000 gallons of blood through the body's 60,000 miles of blood vessels to nourish organs and tissues. 2.      ...
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Reduce Fatal Heart Attack Risk By 50%
(October 01, 2009 10:21 AM) Dr. Jeffry Life

What's the "magic" potion to reducing your risk for a fatal heart attack? A 2002 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology said it's water. That's right, water. Drinking five or more glasses of water ...
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LIFE DIAGNOSTICS
(October 01, 2009 10:20 AM) Dr. Jeffry Life

"I don't want my patients to have a Tim Russert experience."     -Jeffry S. Life       Stats: 62.4% of patients with no/or only one risk factor have undiagnosed heart ...
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Sleep Apnea & Endothelial Function: A Bigger Problem Than You May Think
(October 01, 2009 10:15 AM) Dr. Jeffry Life

Is there a link between sleep apnea and your endothelial health? You bet, says a 2006 study. The research concluded that the hypoxemia (low blood oxygen) caused by sleep apnea was associated with endothelial ...
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The Ultimate Risk Of All Cardio Factors: Endothelial Dysfunction
(October 01, 2009 10:11 AM) Dr. Jeffry Life

What's really going on when you down those "Sausage McMuffins® with Egg" and two hash browns or the American favorite, a Big Mac® with fries? Real and present danger. It all centers on endothelial ...
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