Also On Wellness
Posts by Donald McGee
If “wellness” is a result of our daily choices that lead to healthy balanced states of mind, body, spirit, lifestyle, and Social aspects, then how might various imbalances or unhealthy choices (stress, food choices, etc) affect our DNA or even our children?In this breakthrough study (Environmental Health Perspective , 2006 114:567-572), researchers showed that dietary changes of pregnant mice permanently...
12/18/2022 5:00:00 AM
Body inflammation gets a lot of bad press, but these stories refer to chronic or excessive inflammation that causes health problems. There is also a good type of inflammation that occurs when a strong immune system responds therapeutically to an illness or injury. Beneficial inflammation is a survival tool the healthy immune system uses to differentiate a harmless substance from a harmful one called...
1/14/2022 6:00:00 AM
If you find yourself grappling with depression, you are—for better or worse—not alone. However, if you do suffer from depression, you do feel alone.... as of 2012, diagnoses of depression are growing at an alarming rate ...Healthline reports that, as of 2012, diagnoses of depression are growing at an alarming rate and, as if depression alone weren’t enough, states that report high rates of depression...
8/20/2021 8:00:00 AM
Health claims attributed to probiotics abound—from alleviating diarrhea and controlling chronic digestive problems to curing vaginal yeast infections in women. In some instances, research evidence supports claims; in others, the findings aren't clear. With so much conflicting information, what should you believe about the health benefits of probiotics? Should they be ingested regularly as a preventive?...
5/1/2018 7:00:00 AM
Continuous media hype from self-proclaimed “health experts" and diet gurus decrees the necessity for drinking a minimum of eight 8-ounce glasses of water daily. There are other people, many of whom are bona fide experts, waging the argument that you can drink too much water, even to the consequence of death.The ever-present water bottle clutched in the hands of celebrities whose photos look out at...
2/23/2018 5:00:00 AM
What is Wellness for Communities:Founders for Wellness.com have been working on a paradigm to define What is Wellness for Individuals, their Family, their Work Culture, and their Communities. It is a balance between the functions of Mind—Body—Spirit—Social/Emotional—and Lifestyle. Now, I would like to address a Community What is Wellness and a specific topic of the community -- Safety --as it relates...
12/8/2016 8:00:00 AM
SuperBug E Coli and Sick Care: As Sick Care is the Third Leading Cause of DeathAs the founder of Wellness.com and still a busy practicing physician, I have for decades rebelled against what President (5 star General) Eisenhower would paraphrase as “The Sick Care Industrial Complex”- his phrase was the “Militrary Industrial Complex”. This metaphor means that “sick care” with all its money, lobbyist,...
7/14/2016 7:00:00 AM
As the founder of Wellness.com and still a busy practicing physician, I have for decades rebelled against what President (5-Star General) Eisenhower might call “The Sick Care Industrial Complex”: similar to his phrase the “Militrary Industrial Complex.” This metaphor means that “sick care” with all its money, lobbyist, and political influence over government regulators have become an entity within...
6/3/2016 9:00:00 PM
I just attended a very useful meeting, where there is a consensus that maybe how we practice primary care, an ideal, is actually a failure in reality. To some, it could look like a big power trip for a physician to invite you into her or his “territory,” ask you to sit on the end of a hard examination table half-naked, and offer no recognition that you took a half day off and maybe a quarter of tank...
3/28/2015 7:00:00 AM
There certainly is a role for “Doc in the Box" TeleMedicine access to all patients: especially those that research a condition and looking for an expert or “secondary" opinion. In other words, there is an important role to have physicians and other licensed people, with particular expertise in conditions or sub conditions, handling informational consultations, akin to free market access for anyone...
2/26/2015 10:00:00 PM
©2024 Wellness®.com is a registered trademark of Wellness.com, Inc. 