Patients Medical Health and Wellness Blog

Lyme disease is a rather seasonal disease, surfacing most often in the Spring and Summer when hikers and campers are most often in the forest. Chronic Lyme disease, however, is not a seasonal concern.

About 7 months ago, Francis was diagnosed with an ulcer, which was later diagnosed as cancer. She was referred to a surgeon at a large, famous cancer center in New York City. After laparoscopic testing, and a PET scan, the surgeon informed her that the next step was to surgically remove her stomach, adding aggressive chemotherapy to the treatment protocol. This would leave Francis with a feeding tube as her primary means of digesting food, subsiding on baby food for at least 6 to 12 months and being severely restricted to very small portions thereafter.

We know you're concerned about staying healthy during this flu season - one of the worst in recent history. So we asked our physicians to chime in about how they are telling their own loved ones to prepare, weather an illness and recover quickly and completely.

According to Time Magazine, 5 of the Top 10 Commonly Broken New Year’s Resolutions involve health and wellness. So why is it that we make a resolve to decrease stress, drink less alcohol, eat healthier, quit smoking or lose weight, but don’t follow through?

Our guest blogger, Dr. Thomas Goforth, is a physician at our integrative medical office as well as an avid athlete who just completed his first Tough Mudder and is now training for his second ING New York City Marathon. In his blog post, he addresses sports medicine concerns and his passion for fitness.

Mammography Day is this Friday but before you book your annual mammogram; there are a few things to take into consideration.

If you’ve watched the news recently, you probably heard about the latest meningitis outbreak. There have been 170 cases and 14 deaths confirmed from a contaminated batch of steroid injections.

So often we hear about celebrities who suddenly have an “episode”, check themselves into rehab and announce that they have a mental disorder. It seems like many celebrities are living with a mental illness, which may be evidence that people in creative professions or those in the public may be more susceptible to mental illness. Or, more likely, it may be that the celebrities‘ stories represent a microcosm of what is actually affecting so many people privately whose stories have not been shared.

You may have never heard of xenoestrogens but they are most likely in the food you ate
today, the water bottle you’re drinking out of and the products you used this morning to get ready for your day. If you feel like they’re everywhere, you’re right. And that’s definitely NOT good news for your health – especially if you are suffering from hormonal imbalance.  

What are they?

Xenoestrogens are foreign forms of estrogen that enter the body and imitate natural estrogen. They are man-made chemicals found in many items we use on a daily basis. These compounds actually disrupt your endocrine system (including your thyroid, adrenals and sex organs, among others). Xenoestrogens are much stronger than the estrogens made naturally by your body and can cause devastating effects on your health by disrupting your body’s delicate hormonal balance.
 

Why are they so bad?

According to holistic doctors in NYC this is a serious situation with much at stake. “Not only are they synthetic forms of estrogen but when the body has too much of a hormone, whether it is biological or not, many problems arise,” explains Dr. Vivian DeNise at Patients Medical. Some of the side effects of too much xenoestrogen are listed below:

Many of us are aware that Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative brain disease but now some doctors are calling it Type 3 Diabetes. Keeping reading to find out why.