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The Link Between Sleep and Heart Health: Why Rest Matters

Feb 20, 2025 by Total Access Medical

Most adults need at least 7 hours of sleep each night. However, more than 1 in 3 American adults say they don't get the recommended amount of sleep. While this may be fine for a day or two, not getting enough sleep over time can lead to serious health problems—and make certain health problems worse.

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Understanding Heart Disease: Causes and Symptoms

Feb 18, 2025 by Total Access Medical

Heart disease isn't just one thing. It's a number of conditions that can affect how your heart works. Heart disease can also be called cardiovascular disease, though that term covers blood vessels problems as well.

Heart disease is a major killer in the U.S., causing about 1 in 5 deaths, or about 700,000 a year.

Heart disease describes a range of conditions that affect the heart. Heart disease includes:

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Stress And Your Heart: How To Manage Stress

Feb 13, 2025 by Total Access Medical

Everyone reacts to stress differently, and how you react can impact the chance of developing serious health issues, including heart disease.

Your body's response to stress may include muscle aches and headaches, back strain, stomach pains, and other physical symptoms. Stress also can make you tired, disturb normal sleep patterns, and leave you irritable, forgetful and out of control. When stress is constant, your body remains in high gear for days or weeks, which can lead to more significant health problems.

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Why is Exercise Important for Heart Health?

Feb 11, 2025 by Total Access Medical

The advice is clear-cut: Sit less and purposefully move more for heart health. But how does exercise help keep your heart healthy?

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Heart-Healthy Foods: What to Eat for a Stronger Heart

Feb 06, 2025 by Total Access Medical

Heart-healthy living involves understanding your risk, making healthy choices, and taking steps to reduce your chances of getting heart disease. By taking preventive measures, you can lower your risk of developing heart disease that could lead to a heart attack. You can also improve your overall health and well-being. 

Heart-healthy eating involves choosing certain foods, such as fruits and vegetables, while limiting others, such as saturated fats and added sugars.

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What Are The Risk Factors For Heart Disease?

Feb 04, 2025 by Total Access Medical

Several health conditions, your lifestyle, and your age and family history can increase your risk for heart disease. These are called risk factors. Key risk factors for heart disease include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking. Some risk factors for heart disease cannot be controlled, such as your age or family history. But you can take steps to lower your risk by changing the factors you can control.

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What Are The Risk Factors For Thyroid Disease?

Jan 30, 2025 by Total Access Medical

Thyroid disease is a general term for a medical condition that keeps your thyroid from making the right amount of hormones. It can affect people of all ages.

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How Are Thyroid Disorders Diagnosed?

Jan 28, 2025 by Total Access Medical

You may not spend much time thinking about whether your thyroid gland is functioning well, but it's more important than you would probably guess. This butterfly-shaped organ wraps around your windpipe and sits just beneath the Adam’s apple.

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FJ Leto Named President of Total Access Medical; Ushers in a New Era of Personalized and Integrative Healthcare

Jan 24, 2025 by Total Access Medical

Total Access Medical (TAM) is excited to announce that FJ Leto has been appointed as the new President of the organization. Mr. Leto is poised to lead TAM into a transformative phase of redefining primary care through an innovative concierge model that prioritizes patients, empowers physicians, and disrupts the conventional healthcare system.

As written in PRWeb, Total Access Medical (TAM) is excited to announce that FJ Leto has been appointed as the new President of the organization. After serving as Chief of Staff for the past four years, Mr. Leto is poised to lead TAM into a transformative phase of redefining primary care through an innovative concierge model that prioritizes patients, empowers physicians, and disrupts the conventional healthcare system.

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Early Warning Signs Of Thyroid Issues

Jan 23, 2025 by Total Access Medical

The thyroid, a small butterfly-shaped gland situated just below the larynx at the bottom of the neck, plays a vital role in many bodily processes as a key part of the endocrine system. The thyroid is responsible for producing hormones  to regulate the body’s metabolism. Through this mechanism, thyroid hormones affect every cell in the body.

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