Lifestyle & Wellness

While warmer tem­per­a­tures can be relax­ing, they can also be dead­ly. Here’s how heat affects your heart — and some sun safe­ty tips to prac­tice this summer. 

Mos­qui­to bites are itchy and annoy­ing. Here’s how to avoid them, and when it may be time to vis­it one of our Imme­di­ate Care locations.

Peo­ple love rid­ing bikes because it’s a great way to get exer­cise; it has low-impact on your joints as you rotate your legs thou­sands of times dur­ing a typ­i­cal ride. But small issues with your bik­ing tech­nique can cause big prob­lems over time, includ­ing knee pain, the most com­mon low­er body injury in the sport.

The endocrine sys­tem secretes 50 dif­fer­ent hor­mones through­out your body and each plays a vital role in main­tain­ing home­osta­sis, or sta­ble body func­tions. The fol­low­ing are five hor­mones and the most com­mon imbal­ances in both men and women.

Expo­sure to var­i­ous sounds can affect your hear­ing and cause dam­age, includ­ing tem­po­rary or per­ma­nent hear­ing loss, depend­ing on how loud the noise is and the length of time you are exposed to it. Noise-relat­ed hear­ing loss is com­mon, affect­ing near­ly 15 per­cent of adults in the Unit­ed States (U.S.).

Aller­gist, Dr. Andrey Leonov, explains the effect your aller­gies have on your sleep and ener­gy lev­el, and what you can do to min­i­mize symp­toms, includ­ing brain fog.

In recent years, health care has been focused on pre­ven­tive med­i­cine. Pre­ven­tive med­i­cine empha­sizes the pro­mo­tion of a healthy lifestyle and proac­tive­ly mon­i­tor­ing for var­i­ous health con­di­tions includ­ing hyper­ten­sion, dia­betes or can­cers. To sup­port these efforts, most com­mer­cial insur­ance providers now cov­er the cost of an annu­al well­ness exam pro­vid­ed by an in-net­work provider*. Pre­ven­tive med­ical care is impor­tant because it pro­vides you and your care team with an oppor­tu­ni­ty to assess your cur­rent health, which can be use­ful for antic­i­pat­ing future health care needs.

Your pri­ma­ry care physi­cian, also com­mon­ly known as a PCP, is your main health care provider and is involved in your short and long-term med­ical care. Your PCP pro­vides pre­ven­tive care, teach­es healthy lifestyle choic­es, iden­ti­fies and treats com­mon med­ical con­di­tions, assess­es the urgency of your med­ical prob­lems and refers you to med­ical spe­cial­ists when necessary.

No-chip man­i­cures involve a gel-based nail pol­ish that includes a base coat, two coats of pol­ish and a seal­er which is applied and then cured to the nail under ultra­vi­o­let (UV) lights. When it’s time to remove the pol­ish, the man­i­curist wraps ace­tone-soaked pads around the nail for 10 to 40 min­utes, depend­ing on the brand and num­ber of coats applied.

Did you know that near­ly 70 per­cent of your immune sys­tem is housed in your gut? While fre­quent hand wash­ing and social dis­tanc­ing are cru­cial in pre­vent­ing the spread of ill­ness­es, being mind­ful of the food and bev­er­ages you con­sume can also help sup­port your immune sys­tem and keep you well.