You work hard year-round to eat right and exercise, sidestepping daily temptations to sleep in, relax, and indulge. And then the holiday season hits with its time demands and fattening foods. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with shopping and […]
There are literally thousands of theories about what we should eat for a longer, healthier life. But you know what diet theories you never hear? The Processed Food Diet. The Sugary Drink Diet. The Twinkie and Oreo Diet. There is […]
It’s estimated that 70 million American adults suffer from some kind of sleep disorder. This is troubling because humans need sleep to survive. In fact, almost all animals do. In a 1989 University of Chicago study, rats that were fed […]
Migraine headaches can be torture. Efforts to stop them once they’ve started don’t a have great track record. Once people begin experiencing a migraine, they mostly just want to retreat to a dark, quiet place. Given that 12 percent of […]
Are you suffering from issues in your TM joints, the joints that connect your upper and lower jaw on each side of your head? Are you afflicted with pain in your face and neck, headaches, snoring, sleep breathing disorder, and/or […]
What is a migraine? Is it just a bad headache? If you answered yes, you’ve already discovered the first migraine myth! Migraines are different from ordinary headaches both in their disposition and origin. Migraines appear to be neurological disturbances caused […]
If you’ve ever suffered the soul-emptying pain of a migraine, we sympathize. The throbbing pain on one side of your head, the nausea, and the light and sound sensitivity – it makes you wish the world would just go away. […]
We all get headaches. Some are just a pain in the, well, head. Others are debilitating. They may be accompanied by other symptoms, like nausea and neck pain, and hurt so deep it feels like someone is playing the bass […]
I learned early in my career, from my mentor Dr. Steven Olmos, that “in a chronic pain situation, the site of the pain and the symptom is rarely, if ever, the origin of the problem.” Millions of Americans suffer from […]