I am an integrative medicine physician. I trained in internal medicine at the University of Chicago and after residency, took the integrative medicine fellowship with Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona. Currently I am the Medical Director at the Center for Integrative Medicine and Wellness at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Detoxification – its been around for, since ancient Greece, anci...read more
Jennifer Matthews: When Marsha Van Nuys goes out to eat, she orders with great care. She's had high blood pressure for years, but her last visit to the doctor revealed something new.Marsha Van Nuys: I went to my physician for my normal 3-month blood work, and he discovered an irregular heartbeat. I went, 'Uh oh!'Jennifer Matthews: When initial tests offered no explanation, Doctor Daniel Berman rec...read more
Question: What illnesses are associated with obsessive compulsive disorder?Dr. Helen Blair Simpson: The other illnesses associated with OCD for women include depression, which is very common, maybe as many as 60% of people with OCD will have common end depression, either at the time they present or at sometime in their life. It's also very common to have other anxiety disorders, things like panic ...read more
Dr. Neal Schultz: Hello, I'm Dr. Neal Schultz and welcome to DermTV.Almost everybody experiences acne breakouts at some point in their life, but if you're breaking out now and you want to take control and stop your breakouts, I'm going to tell you how to do it by just using three types of products twice a day, cleansers, toners and products with active ingredients. These are very, very important b...read more
Hello! My name is Adrian Richards, and today I'm going to be talking a little bit about Upper Blepharoplasty. A blepharoplasty is basically any operation on the eyelids. Upper blepharoplasty is an operation on the upper eyelid, a lower blepharoplasty is an operation on the lower eyelid. But I'm going to be talking today about upper blepharoplasty.Okay, so an upper blepharoplasty is a procedure in ...read more
Are you concerned about long-term health effects from taking sleeping aids and have you tried alternative treatments for insomnia?Shana: I feel like I am a pretty healthy person. I maintain a very healthy lifestyle -- working out, eating right and I mean obviously its just not good for you to have to take some kind of medication to turn off your mind, to make you go to sleep. So that concerns me, ...read more
Mark: My name is Mark, from Burton Michigan. I've visited a chiropractor before when I have had muscles tightening up, and back actually went out, and I had been able to get relief from that. If I visited more on a regular basis, what would the benefits of that be? Venu Akuthota: Hi Mark, so the short answer is, I don't think you would have any additional benefit by seeing the chiropractor, freque...read more