by drsstephenson | Sep 2, 2020 | Lifestyle Medicine, Nutrition, Physical Fitness
If you have diabetes, you are probably a pro at monitoring your own blood sugar. Whether you take periodic finger-stick tests throughout the day or you use the new continuous glucose monitoring technology, you already know how important it is to keep track of what...
by drsstephenson | Aug 19, 2020 | Lifestyle Medicine, Nutrition, Physical Fitness
If there’s one thing that never goes out of style, it’s a fad diet. “I’ll sell you X, Y, or Z for easy weight loss” is a trick as old as the hills. Sometimes it’s a book touting some special tricks you’ve never heard of before, an article or a membership site with...
by drsstephenson | Jul 31, 2020 | Mindfulness, Nutrition, Physical Fitness
Whether you are exercising at home, social distancing when you walk the neighborhood or hike the trails, or are keeping a treadmill-width apart from the next person at the newly re-opened gym, I hope you are exercising. Exercise is so important for your physical as...
by drsstephenson | May 8, 2020 | Lifestyle Medicine, Nutrition
Just because garlic has antiviral properties doesn’t mean it’s some super-powered preventive or magical cure for the cold or the flu, let alone COVID-19.oToday, garlic is still widely used as a therapeutic supplement worldwide, and the more scientists study it, the...
by drsstephenson | Apr 27, 2020 | Lifestyle Medicine, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Physical Fitness
Welcome to VibrantDoc! Now more than ever, your health matters.Today, many of us are looking at our health with new perspective. We are largely shut off from the health resources and activities we normally rely on, but this may be an opportunity for us all to consider...
by drsstephenson | Apr 27, 2020 | Lifestyle Medicine, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Physical Fitness
It’s a loud loud world, but somewhere inside you is a still small voice guiding you…or trying to. No, it’s not your conscience, or the angel on your shoulder. It’s your body, and it’s got plenty to say about the choices you’ve been making and the way you’ve been...
