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Healthy Eating Tips And Guidelines
One of the key foundations of health is a proper diet. The first point to emphasize is the importance of consuming real food rather than food products. Real food is a creation of nature, available for human consumption since ancient times. Think of food products as more akin to a chemistry experiment—something concocted in a mad scientist’s lab, rather than genuine nourishment. A simple guideline I’ve come across is to shop only along the outer edges of your supermarket, avoiding
Our Innovative Body Sculpting Program
I’ve been interested in health and nutrition basically my whole life. I was a real skinny kid in high school but finally started working out on January 1st of my senior year. Since then, I have continued with fitness my entire adult life. While I surely was a skinny kid in high school, now I must say I am in the top one percent of men my age in terms of fitness and overall muscularity. Having these lifelong interests, I’ve
All About Vitamin D
Vitamin D is one of the most important micronutrients. It is crucially involved with immune system function, as well as with maintaining appropriate calcium deposition throughout the body. It is obviously involved with numerous other processes in our cells, our tissues, our organs, and our body in general. If you would look at the molecular structure of vitamin D, you would recognize that it is almost identical to cholesterol. In fact, another name for vitamin D is cholecalciferol. The “chole”
Is Losing Weight As Simple As A Weekly Injection?
Semaglutide is the active pharmaceutical ingredient in the brand-name drugs, Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus. It is a GLP-1 agonist, which means it binds to the GLP-1 receptor within our cells and stimulates it. GLP-1 stands for glucagon-like peptide-1. Stimulation of this intracellular receptor increases insulin release, reduces glucagon release, slows gastric emptying, and reduces appetite via enhancement of satiety signals within the brain. These mechanisms together lower blood sugar levels and lead to weight loss. By the way, insulin is
Sex Hormone Replacement for Men and Women
Sex hormone replacement for men and women can be very helpful to help mitigate the aging process. One of the things contributing to the aging process is the fact that certain important “age related” genes are being turned on in our DNA, and other important “youth related” genes are being turned off. Many of these genes seem to be regulated by sex hormone levels. This would include testosterone in men, and estradiol as well as progesterone in women. What’s crucially
What kind of concierge medical practice does Dr. Varveris offer?
First off, the kind of medical care I wish to provide is basically the kind of medical care I would personally like to receive. I vision my practice as more of an “old fashioned” medical practice, where I get to personally know all my patients, and they get to personally know me. At my office, you will just find me and my one employee, my office manager Rachel. She’s been with me for many years. I don’t have any
