Health and Wellness

6 Research-Based Ways to Boost Your Mood Quickly

Available for Interviews: Dr. Pete Loper

Dr. Pete Loper, MD, MSEd, FAAP, is a triple board-certified physician in pediatrics, psychiatry, and child psychiatry. He is also a professor and executive coach and is dedicated to mental health and wellness advocacy.

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Boosting Your Mood:

1) Take a cold shower.

Intentionally taking a cold shower can promote the release of specific neurotransmitters such as dopamine and norepinephrine, as well as certain endorphins implicated in boosting your mood.

2) Get early morning sunlight exposure.

Studies indicate that exposure to early morning sunlight increases serotonin and can thereby help boost your mood.

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Keeping Fit and Healthy Over 70

Available for Interviews: Dr. Mimi Secor.

Dr. Mimi Secor DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner specializing in Women’s Health for over 40 years. She is a sought-after national speaker and consultant who has been featured in numerous local and national media outlets. Dr. Mimi is also a fitness and health advocate, is passionate about helping women to lose weight and feel great, and is the author of the newest book, Healthy & Fit at Any Age: A Guide to Creating Mindset, Nutrition, and Exercise Habits for Busy Women.

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Keeping Fit & Healthy Over 70:

Many assume that older people can’t get healthy and fit and stay healthy and fit. This is a myth. Dr. Mimi started her current health/fitness journey when she was 59 and now, I am 67 years young. She lost 30 pounds and 12 inches from her waist and has maintained this nine years later. Dr. Mimi started weightlifting, doing consistent cardio exercise, stretching, eating healthy, getting adequate sleep, and reducing stress. She is happy to report that she feels better than ever.

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Eco-Therapy: How Our Natural Environment Can Help Overcome Depression

Available for Interviews: Dr. Michael Evangel

Dr. Michael S. Evangel, Chiropractic Physician, is the owner of the Chiropractic Wellness Center in Paramus, NJ. For over 30 years, his mission is to provide state-of-the-art, high-quality care to people of all ages. Dr. Evangel also received his master’s degree in Environmental Health and has a passion for this area of expertise.

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Depression & Our Environment:

Besides some of the more known ways to combat depression, like diet & exercise and vitamins & supplements, we can also look to both our environment and our own behaviors to offer solutions.

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Tried Everything? Losing Weight Once and For All

Available for Interviews: Dr. Mimi Secor

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Losing Weight Once and For All:

Have you, like so many others, tried every diet trend out there? Do you feel like you have tried everything and still can’t lose weight? Are you getting to an age where you’re beginning to wonder if you shouldn’t just give up?

Stop right there.

It is never, NEVER too late to make small changes that lead to a healthier version of you.

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The Real Truth About What Happens After Baby Delivery

Available for Interviews: Dr. Karyn Eilber

Karyn Eilber, MD, is a board-certified urologist, an associate professor of urology & OB/GYN at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, and is an expert in women’s health and men & women’s sexual wellness.

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Surrounding Women’s Health After Childbirth:

From the moment a woman starts showing a rounded belly, she gets a lot of advice (mostly unsolicited). People tell the expectant mother the baby’s gender and what to eat to induce labor, but no one tells the woman what to expect with her body after delivery.

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Medications for Weight loss. Do They Work?

Available for Interviews: Dr. Franchell Hamilton

Dr. Franchell Hamilton, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FOMA is the Founder of NeuroSwitch™ Weigh Loss–a place for people to receive treatments ranging from bariatric surgery and medical weight loss to hormone therapy. Dr. Hamiltion is also the author of two books; Transformation Is a Mindset: The Journey to Changing Your Input and Your World and And the Best Diet Is . . . .

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Medications and Weight Loss:

- People don’t know what the best weight loss medication is for them (and providers disagree on what is best. What do we need to know regarding medications and weight loss?

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Top 6 Tips to Spring Clean Your Mind and Live Your Best Life

Interview Dr. Andrea Nazarenko

Dr. Andrea Nazarenko is a research psychologist with the Obesity Research Team and Social Development Research Group at the University of South Carolina. She also works as a community psychologist, providing consultation services to multiple governmental and educational organizations.

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How to Renew Health & Wellness:

We typically use the changing season to clean up the world around us, but this year let’s also spring clean the world inside of us, too!

Our minds are filled with toxic thoughts and negative emotions. Let’s use this season to throw out the clutter in our mind.

6 Natural Remedies to Treating Allergies This Spring

Available for Interviews: Dr. Michael Evangel

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Natural Remedies for Allergies:

- About 40% of the American public suffers from allergies.
- An allergic response is when the body’s immune system overreacts to something that it comes in contact with. That contact could be from touching, breathing, or consuming a substance.
- This overreaction of the immune system is called an allergic response and the substance that causes the allergic response is called an allergen.*

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5 Ways Women Neglect Their Health

Available for Interviews: Dr. Mimi Secor

Dr. Mimi Secor DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner specializing in Women’s Health for over 40 years. She is a sought-after national speaker and consultant who has been featured in numerous local and national media outlets. Dr. Mimi is also a fitness and health advocate, is passionate about helping women to lose weight and feel great, and is the author of the newest book, Healthy & Fit at Any Age: A Guide to Creating Mindset, Nutrition, and Exercise Habits for Busy Women.

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The Ways Women Neglect Their Health:

Women do a great job of taking care of their spouses, children, and others in their lives. Unfortunately many are neglecting themselves and it is a real problem.

1. Not getting enough sleep. When we don’t get enough rest, our cortisol hormone increases, poor decisions abound, and potential cardiovascular issues can crop up. Continue reading “5 Ways Women Neglect Their Health”

5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Lose Weight

Available for Interviews: Dr. Franchell Hamilton

Dr. Franchell Hamilton, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FOMA is the Founder of NeuroSwitch™ Weigh Loss–a place for people to receive treatments ranging from bariatric surgery and medical weight loss to hormone therapy. Dr. Hamiltion is also the author of two books, Transformation Is a Mindset: The Journey to Changing Your Input and Your World and And the Best Diet Is . . . .

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Proven Ways to Lose Weight:

There are so many fad diets out there. Here are 5 scientific ways people can lose more weight:

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