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What more can you do to stay healthy? Dr. Sita Kedia and Dr. Lauren Munsch Dal Farra recommend the following: Wash your hands. Wash your hands often with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds. Use hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands. Wear a face mask. Wear a face mask in public areas. Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash. If a tissue is not available, cough or sneeze into your arm and do not use your hand. Practice social distancing. Maintain...

Gaining Clarity on Brain Fog Have you ever tried to unlock your front door with your car keys? Or typed your phone passcode into the ATM and wondered why it wasn’t working? Or walked into a room and completely forgotten why you were there? All of us have probably experienced episodes like this at some point in our lives. It’s not uncommon to forget someone’s name or where you parked the car. However, if you find these incidents happening frequently or on a daily basis, you may be suffering from persistent brain fog. Brain fog is not a medical condition i...

Functional Nutrition is the Prescription Have you heard about the latest diet? It’s kind of like Keto, but with parts of Paleo and Atkins thrown in. There’s a whole lot of Whole30 foods you can eat, but you must take expensive herbal supplements and only drink smoothies endorsed by very thin celebrities. Just juice for weeks at a time, or eat cabbage soup every day until you lose those 20 pounds… sounds almost believable, doesn’t it? The ever-increasing, never lasting, often dangerous influx of fad diets seems to get bigger every year, and crazier. Guess...

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, ...