Quotes About Wellness

As medical progress has extended our lives, the result has been what's called the "rectangularization" of survival.

season can affect mood and behavior

In the course of a normal lifetime, the muscles of the jaw lose about 40 percent of their mass and the bones of the mandible lose about 20 percent, becoming porous and weak. The ability

Research has found that loss of bone density may be an even better predictor of death from atherosclerotic disease than cholesterol levels.

The side effects are not life-threatening, but they are not trivial. The

For the solution to chronic pain may lie more in what goes on around us than in what is going on inside us.

waiting for the sick feeling to pass

what treatments they were being given

she began to lose her appetite, and strong odors became intolerable.

The lesson seems almost Zen: you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer. *

to make sure that no physical illness could account for any dangerous behavior.

And the insight was that as people's capacities wane, whether through age or ill health, making their lives better often requires curbing our purely medical imperatives—resisting the urge to fiddle and fix and control. It was not hard to see how important this idea could be for the patients I encountered in my daily practice—people facing mortal circumstances at every phase of life.

This is normal. Although the processes can be slowed—diet and physical activity can make a difference—they cannot be stopped.

As you get older, the lordosis of your spine tips

You have a cough that won't go away—and then? It's not science you call upon but a doctor. A doctor with good days and bad days. A doctor with a weird laugh and a bad haircut. A doctor with three other patients to see and, inevitably, gaps in what he knows and skills he's still trying to learn.

In the course of a normal lifetime, the muscles of the jaw lose about 40 percent of their mass and the bones of the mandible lose about 20 percent, becoming porous and weak.

that. He had no regrets about the operation. It had given him his life back, he said.

When lipofuscin accumulates in sweat glands, the sweat glands cannot function, which helps explain why we become so susceptible to heat stroke and heat exhaustion in old age.

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it's served without advice or insight.

Pissed-off people need back rubs and they also need gym memberships.

When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.