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Dr. Rollins Articles

Oooh that Sun Burns….

With a little bit of sun, I turn pink right away, while my wife goes right to a golden brown.  My Scottish skin type apparently doesn't react the...

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Food for Your Mood

The foods you eat have a lot to do with how you feel, in a myriad of ways you might not imagine. Certain foods help the brain function better and...

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SOT (QREstrain) Restrictions

Contraindications or disqualifications for SOT (QRE-strain) Pregnancy or breastfeeding Recent blood transfusion Recent cytotoxic chemotherapy and/or...

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Breast Thermography

Breast thermography is a quick, painless, no contact imaging technique that can be part of an early detection program for breast cancer.  Using no...

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Allergy Treatments and Cure

Aah-aah-aah-choo! That sound marks the time of year for stuffy noses and itchy, watery eyes. The best treatments are started early and used...

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Breathe Away Stress

Breathe Away Stress

Stress can be effectively dispersed by deep breathing.  It's not that the stress can be avoided or magically disappear, it's that one can mitigate the impact of stress on the body.  Relaxed breathing, alone, or with meditation or yoga, etc, stimulates the...

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Weight Loss Medications

Weight Loss Medications

Many prescription medications may assist with weight loss efforts.  Rather than simply guessing, we match the mediation that best suits your needs.  This may be related to how you feel, for example, if you are constantly hungry, suffer from cravings, or struggle with...

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Palliative Pearls

Palliative Pearls

My summary notes from the wonderful book, "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande. ADLs Eat, toilet, bathe, groom, dress, get out of bed, get out of chair, walk IADLs Shop, prepare food, housekeep, do laundry, make phone calls, handle meds, handle finances, travel THREE...

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Eating Freely

Eating Freely

The Root Cause Oftentimes when working with patients, we uncover that difficulty with weight loss is rooted in stress eating, emotional eating and/or binge eating. This recognizable pattern typically goes from dieting to “falling off the wagon” to feeling guilty to...

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The Ten Hallmarks of Cancer

In two landmark scientific papers, Douglas Hanahan of the University of California, San Francisco and Robert Weinberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology described the Hallmarks of Cancer this way: Self-Sufficent Cell Division Cells are organized into tissues...

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Hormones for a Healthy Heart

Hormones for a Healthy Heart

What if we had a new medication that slashed the risk of the leading cause of death by about 50 percent? And what if that medication also helped prevent osteoporosis and dementia? That same medication is not a medication at all but rather one of our own hormones...

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The Language of Fats

The Language of Fats

Good fats, bad fats, trans fats, omega-3, omega-6, hydrogenated, unsaturated… it gets confusing trying to sort out which fats we are supposed to eat and which ones to avoid. With a little explanation and a little chemistry you will understand the language of fats –...

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