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Anti-Aging, Medical Care and Lifestyle Medicine Health Services
Dr. Hillel Harris sees patients, athletes, and members of the community who want to feel better and younger. He uniquely combines both a traditional medicine and lifestyle medicine approach. At Achillea Medical, he works together with his patients to create a...
Exercise Can be Considered Medicine
Exercise vs. Drugs to Treat High Blood Pressure and Reduce Fat Exercise can lower blood pressure and reduce visceral body fat at least as effectively as many common prescription drugs, two new reviews report. Exercise can lower blood pressure and reduce visceral body...
Low-Carb Diets
Low-Carb Diets Linked to Higher Odds for A-Fib People who regularly got fewer than 45 percent of their calories from carbohydrates were 18 percent more likely to develop a-fib than people who ate a moderate amount of carbohydrates (about 45 percent to 52 percent of...
Lifestyle Medicine
How Lifestyle Medicine Physicians Treat Patients By focusing on lifestyle interventions, physicians seek to improve their patients’ health and prevent future illnesses. Lifestyle medicine uses three main modalities to promote wellness: 1. Nutrition 2. Physical...
What Are Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicine?
What Are Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicine? Precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, is a new frontier for healthcare combining genomics, big data analytics, and population health. WHAT IS PRECISION MEDICINE? According to the Precision...
What Really Causes Addiction? – Addiction Recovery Journey
A Navigation Guide To Self-Discovery During Your Addiction Recovery Journey For many people in recovery, the road to a substance-free life is long and paved with difficult challenges. The physical, emotional, and mental toll recovery can bring sometimes makes it seem...
Local Physician Among the Second-Ever U.S. Cohort Earning Board Certification in the Field of Lifestyle Medicine
Local Physician Among the Second-Ever U.S. Cohort Earning Board Certification in the Field of Lifestyle Medicine Delray Beach, FL – The American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM) has announced that Hillel Z. Harris, MD is among the 219 physicians and 93...
Mind Over DNA in Exercise and Eating Habits
Mind May Trump DNA in Exercise and Eating Habits If you tell people they have a genetic predisposition to a low capacity for exercise or a tendency to overeat, their bodies start to respond accordingly... The study raises provocative questions about the extent to...
What’s the Connection Between Emotional and Physical Health?
Connecting the Dots Between Physical and Emotional Health There's a link between your emotional health and your physical well-being, so take time to nurture both. What's the Connection Between Emotional and Physical Health? According to Charles Goodstein, MD, a...
