Coronary Heart Disease and Heart Attack Treatment
Treatment for CHD and heart attack include drug treatment, angioplasty and stent placement, and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) ...
Step inside the OR to see an angioplasty procedure in action. Watch Dr. Peter Fail thread a tiny coil of metal called a stent through an artery in a patient's leg and up into the heart itself, ...
What Is Diabetes?
In diabetes, the body does not produce or properly use insulin, a hormone that is needed to convert sugars, starches, and other nutrients into energy.
The two major ...
Blood clots normally form in response to an injury to a blood vessel, and they can develop in any part of the cardiovascular system. Blood clots are composed primarily of platelets (cell fragments ...
Symptoms of a heart attack are often more severe and longer-lasting than those of angina. Heart attacks can occur at any time or place, when you're resting or when you're in motion. Heart ...
Improving your health can lessen the symptoms of arrhythmia and other heart disorders. Underlying heart disease can increase the risk of developing arrhythmias. For these reasons, it makes ...
Salt
The danger of eating too much salt is that it can lead to high blood pressure (hypertension) or make it worse, and hypertension is an enormous contributor to strokes, heart failure, and ...
PART 1
Antidepressant Medications
Antidepressants act on the theory that depression is caused by a lack of the key neurotransmitters responsible for mood: serotonin, norepinephrine, ...
Two types of growth occur in the colon:
Noncancerous growths, such as polyps
Malignant or cancerous growths, which usually begin as polyps
Polyps
Colorectal cancer can ...
Healthy arteries are flexible and have little or no plaque buildup. They allow blood to flow freely and can constrict or dilate in response to changes in blood pressure and your body's varying ...
Rule 1 Baseline Your Health, part 1
A journey to wellness begins with your health baseline. Medical tests and a physical exam pinpoint your biomarkers -- the molecular indicators and measurements that reflect the state of your health.
A journey to wellness begins with your health baseline. Medical tests and a physical exam pinpoint your biomarkers -- the molecular indicators and measurements that reflect the state of your health.
Rule 2 Define Your Wellness Mission
Why do you want to change your life? With a clear mission and a lot of resolve, you can change your health habits. When you do, your amazing brain will adapt and help you make good choices automatically.
Why do you want to change your life? With a clear mission and a lot of resolve, you can change your health habits. When you do, your amazing brain will adapt and help you make good choices automatically.
Rule 3 Develop and Maintain Nutritional Balance
When you eat, you choose new building blocks for a stronger, healthier body. Once you learn the benefits of each category of nutrients and the importance of balancing them over time, you can make better choices.
When you eat, you choose new building blocks for a stronger, healthier body. Once you learn the benefits of each category of nutrients and the importance of balancing them over time, you can make better choices.
Rule 4 Get Aerobic and Anerobic Exercise
Build your bones and muscles with anerobic exercise and cardiovascular strength with aerobic exercise. You will gain strength, balance and flexibility, improve your mood, reduce stress and build your brain.
Build your bones and muscles with anerobic exercise and cardiovascular strength with aerobic exercise. You will gain strength, balance and flexibility, improve your mood, reduce stress and build your brain.
Rule 5 Never Smoke, But If You Smoke Now, Quit
Smokers who quit face strong cravings and withdrawal symptoms. They must change their daily routine and, sometimes their friends. But quitting now can improve your lung and heart health, and prolong your life.
Smokers who quit face strong cravings and withdrawal symptoms. They must change their daily routine and, sometimes their friends. But quitting now can improve your lung and heart health, and prolong your life.
Rule 6 Take a Moderate Approach
Our brains reward certain behaviors -- eating, drinking, taking drugs -- with a rush of feel-good brain chemicals. When we crave the reward too much, these behaviors get out of control, and must be reined in.
Our brains reward certain behaviors -- eating, drinking, taking drugs -- with a rush of feel-good brain chemicals. When we crave the reward too much, these behaviors get out of control, and must be reined in.
Rule 7 Make Sleep a Priority
Getting too little sleep can affect your memory, mood, immune system and even your appetite. The right conditions and schedule, which doctors call "sleep hygiene," can help you get the rest you need.
Getting too little sleep can affect your memory, mood, immune system and even your appetite. The right conditions and schedule, which doctors call "sleep hygiene," can help you get the rest you need.
Rule 8 Manage Your Stress
Addressing the factors in your life that cause stress can protect your brain neurons, and help you live longer. Stress speeds the aging and death of cells by damaging our genetic material.
Addressing the factors in your life that cause stress can protect your brain neurons, and help you live longer. Stress speeds the aging and death of cells by damaging our genetic material.
Rule 9 Embrace Joy
Positive emotions, laughter and smiling have been found to improve your immune function and heart health, as well as your mood. For quality-of-life, what could be better than savoring life's happy moments?
Positive emotions, laughter and smiling have been found to improve your immune function and heart health, as well as your mood. For quality-of-life, what could be better than savoring life's happy moments?
The 9 Visual Rules of Wellness
TheVisualMd.com brings together the latest research-based evidence and guidance from medical professors into one comprehensive philosophy that will help you improve your health and life.
TheVisualMd.com brings together the latest research-based evidence and guidance from medical professors into one comprehensive philosophy that will help you improve your health and life.
