Lack of sleep can kill you!

I gave a talk on Sex, Sanity and Sleep yesterday and wanted to share some of the amazing information I found out about sleep. Sleep is one of those wonderful things that we take for granted but it can increase not just the quality of your life but the QUANTITY of it too! One extra hour of sleep a day can decrease your mortality by 50%. Do you forgo leisure and sexual activities and sacrifice exercise because you are "too tired", gulping down caffeine to keep up. Stop! Besides making you tired,lack of sleep severely impacts your health. One in five auto accidents involves drowsy driving. Lack of sleep increases your blood pressure, your tendency to diabetes, arthritis, weight gain,heart disease and premature aging.When you are sleep deprived you are cranky and your decision making skills are reduced which affects your social relationships among other things.Improved sleep improves your thyroid function and immunity which controls your ability to fight off infections and cancer. So insomnia is no joke! Make sleep a priority. As I mentioned in yesterday's blog: It takes great sleep to make a great life. Check out that blog for tips on how to get better sleep and if that's not working, seek help.

HCG DIET

For years I have been recommending this diet to a select group of my patients. I have to admit, it has been so successful I have expanded the range of patients I offer it to.

This is the ONLY diet I have seen where people do not gain back the weight, really!!

On average you will lose 20 to 40 pounds depending on what your starting weight is and how diligent you are with it
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Unfortunately with all the recent publicity a lot of fake products have popped up. All kinds of potions are sold on the internet as "HCG" and even reputable nutrition stores seem to be selling ""HCG alternatives" or substitutes. These products give the diet as a whole a bad name when they don't work or cause side effects like hair loss.

HCG is a hormone, if you pick up a bottle of "HCG" at GNC for $60 and it says "this product contains no hormone" put it down!

HCG is very safe and effective when done with Physician supervision.

I will be be discussing this diet and its pro and cons in my Laurel Office at 11.30 on Saturday October 8th, you will be able to speak to people who have done the diet. Call to reserve a spot...... you will be glad you did.