by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Dec 9, 2012 | Diet, Insomia, Sleep, Time Management
Insomnia: it is common, but it’s not as big an epidemic as you think. Whenever I do a talk show or a speech, someone always asks me if I have any special tips for how to deal with insomnia, a condition that means chronically having insufficient sleep to function...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Apr 4, 2011 | Health, Prevention, Stress, Stress Strategies, Time Management
The only disease that hypochondriacs NEVER think they have is Hypochondriasis. It is the one condition that all doctors can identify, for a very good reason.As medical students, we all suffered Hypochondriasis. Got a headache while you are studying rare cancers? Well,...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Feb 13, 2011 | Stress Strategies, Time Management
Acupuncture is now being used in modern medicine, but it is certainly not new. Starting with moxabustion, surface stimulation dated back thousands of years, at least 4,000. Sparks from the campfire that may have landed on specific points on the...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Jan 14, 2011 | Prevention, Stress, Stress Strategies, Time Management
There are times when a busy agenda can keep us young, as we discussed in an earlier post: Stress – The Fountain of Youth. There are other times, we should note, when there is a tremendous value in doing nothing. As an example, after a series of weeks filled...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Jan 2, 2011 | Pain, Pain control, Stress, Stress Strategies, Time Management
Back pain has become more common in the computer age than it was in the agricultural age. This may appear puzzling, because we are no longer working the land, we are now working the hand. Or at least both hands, at a keyboard. So how does the modern worker contract...
by Peter G. Hanson, M.D. | Dec 19, 2010 | Stress, Stress Strategies, Time Management
Famine is rare in the western world. If anything, our health is more threatened by too much food instead of too little. But now we have created a huge time famine. Our bodies were programmed to work from dawn til dusk, and the only time management was to hurry up...
