My absolute favorite moments in practice are when my patients tell me they’ve stopped taking their prescription medications. By law I can’t recommend anything regarding a prescription drug. I can’t tell you to take it or not. But I can help you devise a plan for getting off of it that will involve you discussing this plan…
A few year ago, I started coughing – no other symptoms – and it was really bad. Like hacking up a lung kind of bad. I tried every single herbal remedy and vitamin I could get my hands on. It would get a little better, but it kept coming back. There was a rattling…
The plaque that can build up in your blood vessels is made out of cholesterol. It can detach from the vessel wall, causing a blockage which is the beginning of a heart attack or stroke. But if cholesterol is the main cause of heart disease, we’d have it licked by now, right? Cholesterol-lowering drugs, called…
I took my dog to the vet the other day because his kennel cough had gone on for 10 days already. My concern was that it was something more serious with his heart (the other potential cause of a cough in a dog). He still wanted to play all the time and eat anything in sight,…