Alternity Healthcare Blog
Alternity Healthcare, LLC is an innovative medical practice emphasizing proactive, preventive care designed to help patients avoid degenerative diseases, regain lost vitality and achieve optimal health.
How Your Diet Affects Bone Health
As a doctor practicing integrative medicine, I find that education is as important to my patients as anything else I do. We focus on maintaining health and vitality of individuals instead of curing diseases, so dietary and lifestyle choices are often more effective than any medication I can prescribe. In a perfect world, making healthy choices would be simple. Unfortunately, the information that we have to guide these choices is often confusing, contradictory, incomplete, or flat-out wrong. read more…
Osteoporosis in Men
Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue, leading to bone fragility and an increased risk of fractures. While there is a belief that osteoporosis is a “women’s disease,” more than two million American men have osteoporosis with 12 million more at risk. read more…
Osteoporosis: Not Just a Woman’s Disease
Osteoporosis, or porous bone, is a disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue, leading to bone fragility and an increased susceptibility to fractures. Osteoporotic fractures are most commonly seen in the hip, spine and wrist, although any bone can be affected. In simpler terms, osteoporosis is a condition in which the bones become weak and can break from a minor fall or, in serious cases, from a simple action such as a sneeze. read more…
Your Heart and Your Bones
We all probably know someone who can predict the weather by the way their bones and joints feel. And, when someone is especially committed to someone or something, they often say they “feel it in their bones”. But we now have mounting scientific evidence linking the health of your bones to your risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). read more…
Vitamin D and Healthy Living
Both medical journals and the popular press over the last several years have been replete with information about the adverse health risks associated with insufficient vitamin D. Low levels of vitamin D have been linked with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease[1], diabetes[2], certain cancers[3], osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases, obesity, multiple sclerosis[4] and chronic pain.[5] read more…
Diabetes Can Be Prevented
Over the last 20 years, there has been a frightening increase in the number of Americans that are obese or overweight. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), has tracked the rise in obese and overweight adults since 1999. Using BMI, or Body mass Index, the survey found that 32% of men and 35% of women were classified as obese; having BMI’s exceeding 30. read more…
Lifestyle Changes for Fat Loss – Exercise
Starting an exercise program is a necessary part of a healthy lifestyle change. Granted, this is no major revelation. Burning more calories than you eat is a fairly obvious recipe for weight loss. The question then becomes: How should you exercise for maximal fat loss and optimal long term changes in body composition? read more…
Start Growing Younger
Since the days of Cleopatra and Ponce de León, if not before, people have been seeking the elusive Fountain of Youth. Until recently, such pursuits were the realm of quacks and charlatans. To be sure, there is no shortage of dubious promises and untested remedies to increase longevity that are available for the naïve or ill-informed. But recent scientific discoveries are bringing respectability to the field, unraveling the secrets of aging on a cellular level and looking for ways to slow it down. It is, afterall, the workings of the cellular machinery that determines the overall health and functioning of the whole person. read more…
Healthy… and wise | from Hartford Magazine
When it comes to health issues, most women – especially mothers – tend to pay attention to everybody’s symptoms but their on. Unfortunately, down-playing their own illnesses or putting off “routine” tests can sometimes have serious, even life-threatening consequences…
Endurance vs Interval Training
For decades, most experts and public health agencies have advocated moderate intensity, long duration exercise to improve health and maintain body weight. Despite that, more Americans are overweight or obese than ever. And, cardiovascular disease is the leading killer of Americans. Recently the Institutes of Medicine issued new recommendations urging all Americans to increase the duration of their exercise to at least one hour every day. read more…
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