WRITTEN BY Nancy Palermo Lietz, MD, Thrive Personalized Healthcare and Wellness Since Ponce de Leon’s unsuccessful search for the fountain of youth in 1513, the fascination with maintaining youth indefinitely has continued. While aging is a natural inevitability, we compound the process with lifestyles filled with processed foods, refined sugars, poor antioxidant intake, inadequate sleep, environmental toxins, technology overload and unrelenting stress. Science has proven this to be true. The …
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Heart Disease: Widening Our Lens to Fight a Deadly Killer
WRITTEN BY Dr. Nancy A. Palermo, Thrive Center for Personalized Healthcare and Wellness February is Heart Health month. While we all don red and vow to fight the number one killer of Americans, it’s evident that one month of awareness is not nearly enough to alter the magnitude of this disease. The numbers are dismal. In 2018, over 800,000 Americans died of heart disease or its related co-morbidities, accounting for one in three of all deaths. Despite spending over $300 billion to “fight and …
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Sleep Is As Important As You Make It
Written by Nancy Palermo, MD, Thrive Center for Personalized Health and Wellness It is 2 am and you have just completed your to-do list for the third time. Included on the list is the desire to sleep more and to sleep better. If you are like many Americans you are not alone. In fact, the CDC reports that 50–70 million Americans report some form of sleep disorder and over nine million use sleep aids on a regular basis. The pharmaceutical industry has seen a three-fold increase in prescriptions …