New Year’s Resolution to Exercise

New Year’s Resolution to Exercise Dear Doctor, I made a New Year’s Resolution to exercise โ€“ does exercise really help at my age (I am a 69 year old woman)? What kind of exercise should I be doing? How often should I be exercising? I am pretty active,...

Hypertension Medication Side Effects

Dear Doctor, I am on multiple medications for high blood pressure prescribed my cardiologist; my blood pressure was extremely difficult to get under control, but this regimen has been working for me for the last 10 years. I have now developed some incontinence…

Herbal Medicine Man

Dear Doctor, Recently I was diagnosed with high cholesterol. Now I know this is genetic because everyone in my family gets high cholesterol eventually. We usually take care of this by boiling corn husks in water…