Wellness

Must Love Dogs

June 20, 2018

What's more healthful than a multivitamin and as beneficial as exercise? Read more...

What You Need to Know About Veins

June 04, 2018

Beautiful Michigan summers mean many things—among them, shorts. Does the idea make you cringe, due to spider or varicose veins? Venous insufficiency affects more than 30 million Americans, women significantly more often. Read more...

How Clean Is Clean ... And Can We Please Not Be Mean?

May 16, 2018

Clean beauty is not mean beauty. Read more...

Confused About Heart Disease and Menopause?

May 01, 2018

I've frequently talked about the Perfect Storm of midlife and menopause, which are the years leading up to your final period. Read more...

Why Practice the Ancient Tradition of Meditation?

April 05, 2018

Meditation is a skill to calm your mind and realize the abundant source of energy within you. It is a practice of yoga that gives you a deep form of rest—like sleep, but not exactly sleep. Meditation is not concentration: It is de-concentration. Read more...

LEAD Women: Keeping Hearts Beating

March 27, 2018

On March 21, 2018, a group of women gathered in Spectrum Health's Cardiovascular Simulation Center to learn how Spectrum has been making strides in treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the most common inherited cardiovascular disease. Read more...

Stand Against Gluteal Amnesia

March 07, 2018

Most of us sit frequently during the day. Some of us even have jobs where we have to sit nearly the entire day, pounding away at a computer, hour after hour. Read more...