The latest reports on the Covid-19 spread suggest that 60 to 70% of the US population will get the infection before it is over sometime in the next 2 years. The current belief is that once enough people have gotten the infection and built up a natural immunity, only then will the spread be stopped. […]
Ellen bought an online program for helping her osteoporosis last week. This put the whole subject of osteoporosis into my head for a bit. Then I read an article on protein requirements for humans relative to the whole paleo movement – more fodder for my brain. Something in that article kept rolling around in the […]
It is officially here – flu season. I have had a few people here and they’re showing up with the occasional flu bug. But the real flu season begins about two weeks before Halloween with the first four bags of Halloween candy that you picked up at the store. After all, the bags have been […]
In conversations with several patients recently it has come to my attention that most people do not really understand the nature of hypertension (high blood pressure). We have all heard that blood pressure is the “Silent Killer” and just sort of let our automatic brain file that as “high blood pressure = bad, avoid high blood […]