Apnea is the Greek word for “breathless,” which describes people with sleep apnea when they are sleeping. In sleep apnea, a person’s — (in the whole animal kingdom, only English bulldogs, pugs, and humans can experience sleep apnea) – sleeping […]
Physical fitness is like saving for retirement: we all know the basic outline of what we should do, but we want a shortcut. We know it’s a lifelong process that can’t be accomplished all at once or with some silver […]
People often ask me why, as a dentist, I am concerned with issues like sleep, breathing problems, acid reflux, back pain and chronic illness. The answer is that all the systems in the body are inter-related. Breaking the body down […]
There is nothing more important than breathing. Sleep apnea is the repeated interruption of breathing during sleep. As you might imagine, it causes loud snoring, fatigue, irritability, sore throat, attention deficit and headaches. It can lead to death if left […]
The temporomandibular joint and the diseases that affect it, are complex and can lead to chronic craniofacial pain, sleep disorders, neck, back and shoulder pain, trouble chewing, and a locked jaw. The American Academy of Craniofacial Pain estimates that nearly […]
A painful and incapacitating migraine headache can wreck a day. When considering how best to treat a migraine, we must start with this: prevention is the best medicine. Just as the best way to handle a forest fire is to […]
Poor sleep affects nearly everyone, at least occasionally. Forty-five percent of Americans say that poor or insufficient sleep affected their daily activities at least once in the past seven days, according to a study by the National Sleep Foundation. About […]
Temporomandibular Disorder—or TMD (commonly called TMJ, which is simply the name of the joint)—is complex and varied, and often misdiagnosed. Because TMD is really a group of maladies affecting the joint and rippling out to other areas of the […]
“Clean eating” is a fancy term for eating real food. It means eating lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and plant or animal proteins that were raised or grown as close to nature as possible. It eschews packaged, […]