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5 things you can do to improve your health that have nothing to do with dieting

Vida Family Medicine

Poor sleep has profound effects on your metabolism, cardiovascular system, and mental health. Avoid screen use for at least 1-2hrs before bedtime and create a relaxing bedtime routine to help ease yourself into sleep. but adequate restful sleep is essential for wellbeing.

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Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

During this episode, we hear from Zahra Khan, an educator and editor who has written extensively on abolition in medicine, and Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? It’s the relationships to the world. It really depends on the person, their relationship, what’s going on.”

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? Well, I do it personally.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Mariah 25:13 Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, saa.

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