Maximize Health Podcast

The foods you eat and the beverages you drink provide energy and nutrients. The basic required nutrients are water, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, dietary fibers, vitamins, and minerals. Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats provide energy in the form of calories. Alcohol (beer, wine, liquor) adds calories without providing nutrition.

Hello! I am Dr. Nicolle, your double-board certified Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician. I help busy professionals minimize their use of medications and maximize their health using integrative therapies and lifestyle change. Welcome to my Podcast Channel and thank you for listening! Let me know what you think and please subscribe to my channel.

A blood pressure monitor (BP monitor), or sphygmomanometer, uses an inflatable air-bladder cuff and a listening device or pressure sensor to measure blood pressure in an artery. This monitoring can be performed by using either of two methods: a manually inflated cuff with a stethoscope for listening to arterial wall sounds (the auscultatory method), or a blood pressure monitor that contains a pressure sensor for sensing arterial wall vibrations (the oscillometric method).

Your immune system protects you from germs and other foreign substances that could make you sick by making parts of your body become inflamed (or heat up and swell). However, sometimes the reaction can be overwhelming (or it goes too far). Sometimes inflammation can become chronic as a response to stress, junk food, or other lifestyle triggers.

Quitting smoking is one of the best decisions you can make to improve your health, but you may experience temporary insomnia. These are some facts about the complicated relationship between sleep and cigarettes, along with strategies that can help you sleep better no matter what cessation method you are using.

Hello! I am Dr. Nicolle, your double-board certified Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician. I help busy professionals minimize their use of medications and maximize their health using integrative therapies and lifestyle change. Welcome to my Podcast Channel and thank you for listening! Let me know what you think and please subscribe to my channel.

Dioxins are mainly byproducts of industrial practices. Dioxins may affect the environment and your health. Dioxins were manufactured as insulator fluids in heat-exchangers and transformers, as hydraulic fluids, and as additives to paints, oils, and caulks. They are produced through a variety of incineration processes, including improper municipal waste incineration and burning of household trash, and can be released into the air during natural processes, such as forest fires and volcanoes. These chemicals may also be released during chlorine bleaching of pulp and paper, or manufacturing or processing of certain types of chemicals, such as pesticides. Almost every living creature has been exposed to dioxins or dioxin-like compounds (DLCs).

Hello! I am Dr. Nicolle, your double-board certified Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician. I help busy professionals minimize their use of medications and maximize their health using integrative therapies and lifestyle change. Welcome to my Podcast Channel and thank you for listening! Let me know what you think and please subscribe to my channel.

Yoga is an ancient and complex practice, rooted in Indian philosophy. It began as a spiritual practice but has become popular as a way of promoting physical and mental well-being. Yoga typically combines physical postures, breathing exercises, and meditation or relaxation.

If you’re thinking about practicing yoga, here are 6 things you should know.

Hello! I am Dr. Nicolle, your double-board certified Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician. I help busy professionals minimize their use of medications and maximize their health using integrative therapies and lifestyle change. Welcome to my Podcast Channel and thank you for listening! Let me know what you think and please subscribe to my channel.

The foods you eat and the beverages you drink provide energy and nutrients. The basic required nutrients are water, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, dietary fibers, vitamins, and minerals. Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats provide energy in the form of calories. Alcohol (beer, wine, liquor) adds calories without providing nutrition.

Hello! I am Dr. Nicolle, your double-board certified Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician. I help busy professionals minimize their use of medications and maximize their health using integrative therapies and lifestyle change. Welcome to my Podcast Channel and thank you for listening! Let me know what you think and please subscribe to my channel.

July is International Group B Strep Awareness Month. Group B Streptococcus (group B strep, GBS) are bacteria that come and go naturally in the body. Most of the time the bacteria are not harmful, but they can cause serious illness in people of all ages. In fact, group B strep disease is a common cause of severe infection in newborns. While GBS disease can be deadly, there steps pregnant women can take to help protect babies. Rates of serious group B strep (GBS) infections are higher among newborns, but anyone can get GBS disease. Below are some important facts about GBS disease in babies, pregnant women, and others.

Hello! I am Dr. Nicolle, your double-board certified Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician. I help busy professionals minimize their use of medications and maximize their health using integrative therapies and lifestyle change. Welcome to my Podcast Channel and thank you for listening! Let me know what you think and please subscribe to my channel.

The Flint water crisis is one of the worst examples of environmental injustice in recent U.S. history. Since the early days of the Environmental Justice Movement in the 1980s, many studies have revealed a pattern across the country: certain communities are excessively burdened by environmental pollution and health risks. Like Flint, those places tend to be locations where poor people and people of color are concentrated.

Hello! I am Dr. Nicolle, your double-board certified Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician. I help busy professionals minimize their use of medications and maximize their health using integrative therapies and lifestyle change. Welcome to my Podcast Channel and thank you for listening! Let me know what you think and please subscribe to my channel.

Communities of color have long faced disparities in the health care system, in part because of discrimination, poor health, and insufficient insurance coverage. There have been many reports of racial bias in medicine, often called ‘implicit bias’, and that black patients receive inferior medical care to white patients. For instance, pain is undertreated in blacks because of the thought that blacks have less-sensitive nerve endings, or that that our blood coagulates faster or more quickly, or it’s just thought that black pain is rated lower than whites. Blacks are more likely than whites to receive drug testing when prescribed long-term opiates, even though whites show higher rates of overdose. 

Hello! I am Dr. Nicolle, your double-board certified Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician. I help busy professionals minimize their use of medications and maximize their health using integrative therapies and lifestyle change. Welcome to my Podcast Channel and thank you for listening! Let me know what you think and please subscribe to my channel.

When we talk about COVID19 and health disparities, we must also talk about the Social Determinants of Health. The Social Determinants of Health are the conditions under which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. The factors that strongly influence a person’s health include access to medical care, access to healthy foods, of which there are many food deserts and food insecurity in low-income and minority areas, environment, which can include access to clean water and clean air, socioeconomic status (SES), employment, and social support networks.

Hello! I am Dr. Nicolle, your double-board certified Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician. I help busy professionals minimize their use of medications and maximize their health using integrative therapies and lifestyle change. Welcome to my Podcast Channel and thank you for listening! Let me know what you think and please subscribe to my channel.

For those who don’t know what COVID-19 is, it is a respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus, and it spreads from person to person by inhaling the virus particles or by touching contaminated surfaces. The disease has been named “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”). COVID-19 has is overwhelming our health system. COVID-19 is 10 times more lethal than the flu. It’s a new disease, and with that comes new issues. There is no real treatment such as Tamiflu for the flu, no vaccines, and no real understanding of what is actually working with various treatments, etc. The unknown is what makes us more cautious. With all of this to consider, it is time for us to maximize our health as much as possible.

Hello! I am Dr. Nicolle, your double-board certified Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine Physician. I help busy professionals minimize their use of medications and maximize their health using integrative therapies and lifestyle change. Welcome to my Podcast Channel and thank you for listening! Let me know what you think and please subscribe to my channel.