by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Feb 18, 2022 | Health and Diet, Healthy Aging, Preventative Medicine, Preventive, Sleep
More Sleep, More Sex, More Refreshed Sleep is part of a 24-hour cycle: this essay concentrates on the period from dinner to help you get a full night’s sleep. At dinner, eat foods that are easy to digest! Lying in bed with your intestines wrestling with a high cuisine...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Jan 30, 2019 | Aging, Alzheimer's, Dementia, Depression, Exercise, Fitness, Food, Health and Diet, Healthy Aging, nutrition, Preventative Medicine, Public Health, Sleep
The Relationship between Alzheimer’s, Dementia and the Aging Brain New research reveals the best way to survive from 75 to 90 years old: eat, drink, be merry, and exercise. Those who made it to 75, benefited from Consuming wine rather than abstinence Consuming coffee...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Jan 31, 2018 | Alzheimer's, Circulatory System, Dementia, Heart Health, Hypertension, Medications, Patient Care, Preventative Medicine, Public Health, Sleep
There is a Way to Fix the Hypertension Crisis. New Guidelines Won’t Do It. In a famous psychology experiment, subjects watch a video of students, moving in circles, pass two basketballs around. The task is to count the number of passes that are made. At the end...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Jun 27, 2017 | Aging, Hormone Supplementation Therapy, Medications, Sleep, Testosterone
The Testosterone Trials: Looking for Complications in All the Wrong Places The NIH trials of testosterone replacement in older men (The TTrials) concluded in April. Over 50,00 volunteers were screened to create a study group of 790 men. The average age was 72; many...
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Dec 28, 2016 | Health and Diet, Sleep
Sometimes that Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train The Effect of Light at Night on Health We just experienced the longest night of the year (Winter Solstice). We shorten the night with electric light. It is the largest uncontrolled experiment in human history....
by James Edward Katz, M.D. | Sep 29, 2015 | Heart Health, Sleep
The “Hollywood Heart Attack” – sudden, intense, left shoulder and arm pain, crushing chest pain, nausea, sweating and collapse – is ingrained into the American psyche. It is the most memorable presentation, but the majority of heart attacks, in both men and women,...