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Make American Heart Month Even Healthier Happy American Heart Month! Here’s How to Make it Even Healthier It’s February: when valentines are shared with loved ones and spring is just around the corner. Yet, like every month in America, 1 in 4 deaths will be caused by heart disease. More than 800,000 die from cardiovascular problems every year in the US — approximately one person every 37 seconds. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), heart disease costs the US about $219 billion in health care services, medication, and lo...

Taking an Integrative Approach to Depression Depression, anxiety, and many other mental illnesses are on the rise in the twenty-first century. We sat down with Dr. Nigel Lester, Director of Mental Health at PALM, to ask for his insight. Why are so many people depressed today? Two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato said, “Life must be lived as play.” In many ways the huge rise in mental illnesses in our society, and especially depression, can be seen as a collective forgetting of the potential for joy and awe that human existence offers us. T...

Being Proactive About Your Health Preventive care is essential to staying healthy, but what are the first steps we should take to prevent illness and disease? We asked founder and CEO of PALM Health, Lauren Munsch Dal Farra, MD, for her advice. Q: What is the first step to preventive health? A: Know yourself! Have you ever taken time to have a comprehensive review of your personal health risk factors? There is no single diet, exercise program, or stress management formula that works for everyone. We are each unique in our genetic makeup, family history, ...

Using Light to Heal Light is a powerful tool for healing the body. On the electromagnetic spectrum, light waves ranging from visible light to infrared rays can be used to warm the body, relax muscles, and detoxify bodily systems. Infrared saunas and medical-grade heating pads serve to provide heat through infrared and far infrared rays, while chromotherapy uses the visible light spectrum to balance the body’s energy systems and provide stability. The BioMat At PALM, we offer a product called the BioMat, which is a medical-grade FDA-approved heating pad m...

Do I Really Need to Take Supplements? We’ve all heard about supplements. The question is, do we really need to take them? We asked Dr. Lauren Munsch Dal Farra, cardiologist and CEO of PALM Health, for her advice. What is a nutritional supplement? Nutritional supplements can be vitamins, minerals, herbs or other plants, amino acids (the individual building blocks of protein), or parts of these substances. They come in pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid form, and are intended to replenish deficiencies in the body and add further nutritional value to “supplem...

You Are What You Eat and Other Secrets to a Long Life The old adage, “You are what you eat,” traces back to a 19th-century French gastronomist. Unfortunately, in the nearly 200 intervening years, many of us seem to have lost touch with this common-sense advice, as poor eating and stress-related habits have resulted in high levels of obesity, cancer, heart disease, and other health problems. We spend millions each year to treat our symptoms with pharmaceuticals and medical procedures, yet what we should be doing is focusing on the underlying causes of chr...