Author Archives: Joe Garma
I help people live with more vitality and strength. I'm a big believer in sustainability, and am a bit nutty about optimizing my diet, supplements, hormones and exercise. To get exclusive Updates, tips and be on your way to a stronger, more youthful body, join my weekly Newsletter. You can also find me on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
[9/11/09 Update: Just found this Q&A with Dr. Weil that gets into worthwhile details about how to avoid the flu, supplements for kids, how to evaluate if you should inoculate and more.] ONE OF my favorite health advisors was on Larry King last night. As usual, Dr. Andrew Weil, was spot on with his comments […]
Continue readingRead a quick summary and watch the speech. ABOUT AN hour ago, President Obama finished his health care speech before Congress where he announced a health plan proposal that would meet three basic goals: “It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don’t. […]
Continue reading(Thanks to Dan Roam and C. Anthony Jones, MD, it’s really simple.) IT MAY seems simplistic, but Roam and Jones really hit the issues square-on and adeptly explain the basics of what’s going on right now with health care reform. There’s no one who isn’t at least a bit confused by this, so shake off […]
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Is It Fair To Compare? THIS MAP indicates what each State spends on Medicare. Once the map pops up, you’ll note that the lightest color shows spending up to $7,000 per Medicare beneficiary, and the darkest shows spending over $9,000. Nationally, according to the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, Medicare spent an average of […]
Continue readingWhat the US can learn from other nations about how to run health care. GIVEN THE intent of President Obama and (most) Democrats in Congress to revamp America’s health care system, this is a good time to compare the U.S. system to the health care offered by other advanced nations to their citizens.
Continue readingDID YOU read the one that shouts, via a chain email, that under the proposed health care reform, the Federal Government will have electronic access to everyone’s bank account? Like the strident assertion about “pulling the plug on Granny”, this is scary stuff. You both get robbed blind and lose a relative!
Continue readingMYTHS ARE an intriguing subject. Some are born of some long-ago purported truth that over time gets embellished as each subsequent truth-bearer who, by dint of philosophy, group affiliation or financial incentive, is compelled to thrust the Righteous Truth Banner higher and higher for all to see the resplendent truth mythologized.
Continue reading(It Really Depends… and You Need To Get It Right!) Certain fats are critical for health. Aim for fat consumption of Omega-3 and Monosatuated Fatty Acids in the range of 20 to 25% of your daily caloric intake; ideally, as little as possible from Saturated and Trans Fat sources. Read on for specifics.
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Keep The Glucose Spikes Outta Your Blood I GUESS it could be said (cause I’m about to say it) that a good diet is one that accounts for blood sugar (aka “glucose”) control. Controlling blood sugar via your diet necessitates understanding how the carbohydrates you eat effect your blood sugar. Enter the Glycemic Index (“GI”).
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You pay a painful price for a poor diet should it impact your kidneys by causing kidney stones. (Watch videos below) LIKE WITH the liver, the key to kidney health — beyond a good diet (extremely important) and exercise — are supplements that cleanse, restore and maintain. Toxins need to be flushed out. Heavy metals […]
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The food and drink you consume must be managed like every other important thing in your life. Eat more small meals, less big ones. Hydrate with pure water instead of drinks dolled up with color, sugar and chemicals. Plan your snacks. Supplement. Move!!
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As she ages, a woman’s health is powerfully influenced by how well balanced are her hormones. These supplements may help.
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Supplement For An Extra Nudge THERE WAS a time when a certain amount of corpulence was favored by society. If you were fat it meant that you had enough wealth to eat whilst the peasants were near starving, and accordingly, quite skinny. Oh, if only such antediluvian norms could return. Just think of how […]
Continue readingA Summary of the late Peter Jennings’ TV Special, along with video of How To Get Fat Without Really Trying. Subsidies and Marketing Ain’t So Good For Us WITH THE strikingly voluble debate raging over the state of the American health system, I thought it would be a good time to go back seven years […]
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Why Take Them At All? Supplements reviewed here: Three Best Vitamins and Minerals, Resveratrol, Vitamin D3, Ultimate Greens, Acetyl L-Carnitine, R Lipoic Acid, and Krill Oil. This is one big catch-all bucket. Most everything fits in this “Vitamins and Minerals” category, but there are a few gems that I’d like to point out, but […]
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