Here is a common “bouquet” of symptoms, associated with excessively elevated cortisol: -I have difficulty falling asleep AND/OR wake up many times during the night. -I can’t handle pressure at home or at work – stress just drives me crazy! -I feel cranky READ MORE
This Springtime symphony of feelings was inspired by the walk alongside Hudson River and Riverside Park. New York City is awakening to a new Spring – a new beginning. As Pablo Neruda once said: “ You can cut all the flowers, but you READ MORE
A patient recently asked… “My family has a history of degenerative disc disease and I have suffered from lower back pain for several years. I am sick of relying on painkillers. Is there anything else that might have a lasting effect?” I answered: READ MORE
I have a lot of friends and colleagues who cook for 2-3 days and just keep reheating the food whenever they need it. However, there are some foods which I would like to bring to your attention, which should never be reheated. Not READ MORE
I know there are many of you out there: don’t really know how to cook very well but want to eat healthy organic food and do good to your cells. Here are a few tips from one dilettante cook to another: Cauliflower Snack: READ MORE
Look at the way multi-billion dollar weight loss industry is booming. Women and men fast, detox, take weight loss supplements, exercise intensely, clip-off portion of their stomachs, and the list goes on and on. It’s not that the older folks don’t lose weight READ MORE
I love it when editors who are writing articles about healthy living, weight loss, and good food reach out to me for advice – this way I can spread the word beyond our office – to the entire world. When asked about my READ MORE
Winter is a time when we tend to succumb to respiratory infections, especially when the temperatures are changing abruptly and we are not sure how to dress appropriately for the outdoors. I strongly oppose frivolous use of antibiotics for viral respiratory conditions and READ MORE
By Diane Donovan – Senior Reviewer at Midwestern Book Review: Diet Slave No More!: A Fun Literary Journey into Your Self is an unexpected journey in that it’s not another book on “how to diet”. Instead, its holistic approach combines the medical traditions READ MORE
‘Diet Slave No More!’ book garners first reviews.. Christian Sia: Diet Slave No More!: A Fun Literary Journey Into Your Self by Svetlana Kogan, M.D. is one of the best things I have read in a very long time about dieting and READ MORE
In my previous post I claimed that due to functional brain differences, teenagers are living in a reality dramatically different from that of their parents. https://customlongevity.com/2015/11/why-our-teenage-kids-live-in-a-different-reality/ Imagine a cartoon of all that. If the explosively emotional limbic brain can be visualized as the READ MORE
This is my sixth installment, as a doctor and as a mom of two kids, on a topic, which is so hot for so many of us: our teen kids. My original post, which can be found here https://customlongevity.com/2015/10/leave-me-alone-i-can-manage-my-own-stuff/ has stirred a lot READ MORE
