Advanced Family Medicine

Overcoming Insomnia Regardless of age, insomnia is a widespread issue—whether you’ve suffered from it every night of your life, or only on an irregular basis. Regardless of how often it occurs though, insomnia can have a very real impact on your life, ultimately affecting your productivity, performance, and even your quality of life. Here at  Advanced Family Medicine , we can provide you with many different methods of treating your insomnia, including sleep hygiene, behavioral modifications, and medications. However, what if you’re looking for a more natural approach to your insomnia? In this post, we’ll discuss an often overlooked method of achieving sleep for those who suffer from insomnia: meditation. How Can You Help Your Insomnia without Medication? If you’ve suffered from insomnia for any amount of time, you know how it feels when you go to bed. You may be (and often are) completely exhausted as you pull the covers up to your chin, but your anxiety about not b...

The Very Real Physical Effect of Anxiety & Tension on Your Child In today’s modern age,  stress is a very real part of most people’s lives , and is something that can be experienced at work, at home, and even at play. But while these types of external stressors can often be alleviated by simply removing yourself from the situations, mental stress is much more insidious. This is because we as humans are often the cause of our internal tension, which can be brought about by a wide variety of factors, but which is immensely more difficult to escape from. And when your body consistently undergoes stress without any form of relief, it turns into  distress , which can manifest itself physically and result in chest pain, upset stomach, headaches, and elevated blood pressure, and can even make existing diseases worse. In fact, according to  WebMD : 43% of all adults suffer adverse health effects from stress 75%-95% of all doctor's office visits are for stress-rel...

What Causes Erectile Dysfunction? Intimacy is one of a man’s most basic needs, and anything that interferes the ability to be intimate is a serious issue.  A surprising number of men today suffer from a condition called erectile dysfunction (ED), its causes are either psychological or physical, and while it can be embarrassing to bring up with your doctor, there are some very effective treatments available. What Causes ED? Physical Conditions One of the most common causes for ED is a lack of blood flow to the genital area – which is a symptom of smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, abnormal hormone levels, aging, medication side-effects etc. Psychological Conditions Often times depression, performance anxiety, fatigue, among other reasons contribute to ED. By itself loss of libido could be a sign of depression, impotence by itself is a depressing experience for any man, and can sometimes compound the issue. Many times men are too embarr...

Serenity Now! Getting to the Root of Stress None of us seek to be stressed, but more often then not it finds us; a car accident, unexpected bill, and your daughter’s boyfriend. We at  AFM  are no strangers to stress, and we are here help you navigate the difficult times. It has been our experience that taking the appropriate steps early on makes all the difference in mitigating the effects of stress. However, hardly anyone comes to us seeking help for stress, instead patients come in with symptoms indicative of more serious problems; chest pains, shortness of breath, heart palpitations etc. They may think they are having a heart attack, and while it is a relief to find they are not, they may well be on there way to having one if they are not careful. When this happens we never want to send the patient away with only a pat on the back and a couple of aspirin. Instead we are dedicated to helping our patients decipher their symptoms to find the underlying cause(s) of th...