It’s unlikely this is the first time you’re reading about the “good” gut bacteria; it’s probably been the hottest topic in health and medicine over the past few years. Why? More and more studies are linking so much of our…

We’ve all experienced it—that midday drag when our tired, overloaded brain just shuts down. With deadlines, no doubt, looming and beating our head against our desk and chasing it with yet another cup of Joe doing nothing to jumpstart our…

It can be challenging to work up the motivation to exercise. It may sound cliché, but for most of us, the more persistent and consistent we are with an exercise routine, the more we look forward to exercise and how…

What if there was something you could do to slow aging? We’re not talking about artificially, a nip here a tuck there, but genetically slow the aging process? There’s one thing that consistently hits our radar in that proverbial Fountain…

Today we’re covering the fourth topic in our April exercise series: how exercise affects our muscles as we age. We know exercise is good for our muscles, but one study goes a bit deeper into its muscle benefits and looks…

America, as a whole, loves its nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). The tiniest ache or pain can send many running to their medicine cabinet for an NSAID to attempt to control that small pain before it gets worse. We see patients…

Exercise is good for so many things, but one of the questions we often get from our patients with musculoskeletal conditions is, Can I still exercise? In most cases, the answer is yes, and, in fact, in many cases, exercise…

Your knee pain is limiting your ability and potential. Conservative therapy, including physical therapy, has not provided significant or sustained improvement. Your doctor has advised you that you have mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis. What to do? Hazards of Steroids…

Spring is here, and for many of us, that means those activity levels that dwindled off a bit, or a lot, throughout the cold winter months are starting to kick into high gear. Whether your goal is to lose weight…

We sometimes use the A2M protein to treat patients with knee swelling and to provide cartilage protection in those with osteoarthritis. A recent study, however, suggests A2M may also protect cartilage in those with a much different type of arthritis:…