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San Juan Health Partners Family Medicine is expanding its services to meet the individual needs of the community. Starting this month, midwifery services will be offered at the Aztec clinic, which is a division of San Juan Regional Medical Center....

Many people are in denial about what their arteries look like, but it’s hard to be in denial about what your skin looks like. Americans spend billions of dollars every year on anti-aging skin products. Botox injections and cosmetic plastic surgery...

The overarching conclusion is that the Clean Air Act is working to improve our air quality and health, and we can see the improvements right here in New Mexico in our oil and gas regions. Thanks to Clean Air Act enforcement and improvements, San Juan...

How often have you tried to ignore an ache or pain by telling yourself, “Maybe if I do nothing, it’ll go away.” Sometimes, that works. But wishful thinking isn’t the best way to take care of yourself. Medicare has put a new emphasis on...

As noted in last week’s column about vitamin D, vitamins are substances that the body can’t make that are necessary in trace amounts for normal metabolic functioning. Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is a water-soluble vitamin (as opposed to...

People diagnosed with prediabetes are at a higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Effectively managing prediabetes can help prevent diabetes. In fact, studies have shown that the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes can...

Oxidation involves the removal of electrons from atoms or molecules, creating unstable particles called free radicals. In their book “Beat the Heart Attack Gene,” Bale and Doneen state that oxidative stress is “an imbalance between formation...

Each human cell has twenty-three chromosomes, each made up of two strands of DNA. At the tip of the chromosomes are caps called a telomeres, that keep the DNA from unraveling and are analogous to the plastic tips at each end of your shoelaces. As...

When kids fall, they usually just get up and return to playing. But for older adults, falls are a major threat to good health and independence. Every year, about one in four Americans 65 and older falls, and about one in five of those who lose their...

February 14 is Valentine’s Day, and because it falls in February, the month is called “heart month.” If you don’t already do this, you should consider being kind to your endothelium and encourage your loved ones to do the same. The...

This week I’d like to present two patient stories. First, my own: My father had hypertension and Parkinson’s for many years and died at 81 of complications from a stroke. Other family members on his side died from heart attacks and strokes. My...

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The 18th Creating Cultural Harmony Conference: “Celebrating Family Cultures and the Culture of Families,” will take place on Friday, February 10, 2017, at the Henderson Fine Arts Center, San Juan College, from 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. This...

There have been many giants in the field of preventing, treating and reversing disease through nutrition. The thing they all have in common is that based on science they advocate a plant-based, no-added-oil, whole (unprocessed) food lifestyle with...

This is the last column in a series about foods we need to avoid if we want optimal health. It seems obvious that we should avoid toxins. Here’s the scope of the problem: · According to the CDC, essentially 100 percent of people in the U.S. are...

This is another column in the current series about why we should avoid certain foods if we want optimal health. Today’s column is about the health risks of sugar. One hundred years ago the average American ate 4-5 pounds of sugar a year; now the av...