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Common Treatments For Hair Loss

Today, there are a wide variety of hair loss treatment options available. Here’s a comprehensive list featuring some of the most effective and common to regain your hair.

What Is The AMD Prevention Pyramid?

The AMD prevention pyramid, created by C. Armitage Harper III, M.D., is designed to provide you with a plan that could delay, and even prevent, age-related macular degeneration. The plan is based on documented scientific research studies and calls for a change in everyday lifestyle choices, diet, and daily habits to achieve optimal eye health.

How To Prevent Weight Gain During Menopause

For many women, menopause represents a turning point where fertility, youth and vitality are replaced with low hormones, low energy, mood swings, and the inevitable weight gain.  Associated with these changes comes the increase in risks for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and osteoarthritis.

How Your Genes Influence Weight Loss

Ever wonder why some people can get away with eating carbs all day, while you just look at them and gain weight? Better yet, ever wonder why some people have immediate weight loss when they exercise and some don’t?

Signs of Sun Damage You Shouldn’t Ignore

Even in today’s world, where a wealth of knowledge can be found with the click of a button, many people are still unaware of how damaging the effects of the sun can be. While everyone wants some fun in the sun, too much UV exposure causes skin deterioration and photo-aging; robbing skin of its youthful appearance and leading to unsightly pigment changes including red and brown spots.

3 Ways to Avoid a Filler Nightmare

Facial fillers are a common cosmetic treatment for wrinkles with low risk of ill-effects–in the hands of a skilled physician. Fillers such as Restylane, Perlane, Juvéderm, Voluma, or Boletera have become a great way to rejuvenate your face without surgery or downtime. However, when used incorrectly or in excess, clients are left looking over-volumized, like they’ve had their face unnaturally inflated in an attempt to remove all wrinkles.

An alternative to the flu vaccine

Flu season is upon us and you may be thinking about getting a flu shot hoping that it will lower your risk of getting the flu this winter season. However, there are a few things to consider before making this decision.

The Amazing Link Between Vitamin D and Breast Cancer

Current research links Vitamin D to a host of health benefits, such as warding off Parkinson’s disease, reducing rates of inflammatory conditions, heart disease and stroke, and even preventing cancer. In fact, new studies reveal that high levels of Vitamin D can actually reduce the risk of breast cancer and inhibit the growth of existing tumors.