Anti-Aging Tips From Dr. Joseph Maroon

Clinical practice and medical training are associated with stress, but this is often considered to be a positive motivating factor, that is until recently, and it likely has a great deal to do with the health system becoming increasingly dehumanized and depersonalized.  

The ongoing triad of emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and reduced professional efficacy is defining physician burnout, and it justifiably questions the role of stress in clinical practice. It has the potential to put patient care at risk and it has a detrimental effect on medical workforce retainment. 

It would appear as if the life expectancy for American men has peaked and it is now in a modest but steady decline since 2014, which may be driven by deaths of despair, and the rising income inequality in America influencing health comes.

A study published in the journal Science from the laboratories at Boston University suggests that synchronized brain waves of non-REM sleep may play an important role in preventing toxins from accumulating in the brain. 

When you are trying to map out what is happening in slumbering brains you end up making some sacrifices to your own good night’s sleep says Laura Lewis of Boston University speaking of the late nights put into research, who goes on to add, “It’s this great irony of sleep research,” she says. “You’re constrained by when people sleep.”

Recent research carried out in Australia, Austria, Finland, and Thailand has found that any amount of running, even at a slow pace, can be beneficial for health and help to lower the risk of death.