Start the New Year on the right track. By: Melissa Morello, MD
The New Year is a time for change. Like most of us, you may feel there’s some room for improvement in your life — in your physical fitness, your relationships or your work-life balance. If there’s a piece of your puzzle missing, what simple changes might help bring the picture together? What can you do to make 2022 the year you really feel whole? Here are four steps to get you started.
See your primary care provider.
Get moving. In other words, exercise at a quick enough pace that you can’t hold a conversation or update your social media status. Do it every day for 30 minutes. You won’t believe how much better you’ll feel meeting this easy goal. Getting started is as simple as walking in one direction for 15 minutes and then walking back.
Rest.
You need seven to eight hours of sleep per night, Make an appointment, and and if you’re not getting it, Melissa Morello, MD, is a boardinitiate an open and honest certified family medicine physician. She your health care provider conversation about your specializes in treating acute and chronic needs to know. If you do feel real health goals and what like you’re sleeping but are still illnesses in patients age six years and you and your care team can tired, that’s a problem. People older, with an emphasis on women’s do to achieve them. Tell think significant fatigue is a health and pediatric medicine. your provider, “I’m ready to natural part of aging, but it change, and I need your help.” isn’t. If you’re waking up tired, you may have a Your provider will likely start with a physical treatable sleep disorder. to get baseline numbers for blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol and other important measurements. That way, you can track your health progress and make lifestyle or medication modifications if necessary.
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