Central Florida Health and Wellness Magazine Health and Wellness Articles of the Villages
Cervical health is an important concern for women of all ages. An estimated 12,000 women are diagnosed every year and approximately 4,000 women will die as a result of cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is the second most common type of cancer among women. Fortunately, it is also preventable and treatable thanks …
Read More »Memory Care at Freedom Pointe at The Villages
No decision seems harder than moving a cognitively challenged parent into a memory care community, and yet it may well be the most loving thing one can do. Particularly when you choose Freedom Pointe at The Villages. In this safe and loving harbor for residents with dementia or Alzheimer’s, we honor …
Read More »Stem Cells-setting the New Standard for Treatment of Orthopedic Conditions
WHAT ARE STEM CELLS? Over the past several years, stem cell and PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) therapy have soared in popularity and are highly sought after treatment options, as a natural and non-surgical alternative to treat many common orthopedic conditions. Our bodies naturally produce stem cells. Because micro-damage occurs constantly, …
Read More »Reverse Holiday Weight Gain this Year!
Now that it’s the new year! We look back on the past holiday where we made glorious memories with friends and family, but it’s also the time of year that we look at how we have inevitably packed on the pounds. Although, that’s not necessarily the way that it has to …
Read More »Eliminate Pain and Accelerate Your Body’s Natural Ability to Heal, Even if Nothing Else Works!
After 17 years, used in over 4,000 hospitals and medical facilities, in over 40 countries, documented in over 400 independent studies done internationally, with 115 published on the National Institute of Health’s website, as well as 40 (PubMed) medical journals, and over 1 million happy users proving the effectiveness of BEMER …
Read More »Cervical Pain
By Wim Vergauwen, MPT, CMT – Owner Certified Manual Therapist Sooner or later everyone gets to deal with some form of neck pain, but rarely something has been done to treat the pain. Often arthritis or muscle spasms are blamed for the cause of neck pain, but in reality chronic neck …
Read More »The Asset Protection Provisions of Your Estate Plan May Be Your Most Important Legacy
By Katina H. Pantazis, Esq. In my experience, the goal for many of my clients in estate planning is to preserve accumulated wealth in an effort to provide security to their survivors. In this day in age of market instability and economic uncertainty, our survivors are going to need all the …
Read More »A Compounded Thyroid Medication Made Specifically For You
The thyroid is a tiny butterfly shaped gland in the neck that is made up of two distinct lobes. The thyroid gland predominantly produces thyroxine (T4) which is converted to the active form of thyroid hormone, triiodothyronine (T3), primarily in the liver. Hyperthyroidism is a condition where the thyroid is overactive …
Read More »Don’t Pursue Your Passion
By Alex Anderson There is a danger in pursuing your passion… it assumes that you can only have one. This drove me nuts in a reversed kind of way. I knew what my passion or calling was…to be a minister. The only problem was…so was being an entrepreneur, musician, writer, …
Read More »Convenient Access to Emergency Care Now Available
Residents of Marion, Lake and Sumter Counties gained additional access to emergency care when Ocala Health opened its new Summerfield ER, a freestanding ER located on Hwy 441 adjacent to the Del Webb Spruce Creek community approximately six miles north of The Villages. The nearly $10 million project employs approximately …
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