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Semaglutide Safe & Effective in Patients With Schizophrenia & Prediabetes
I'm linking an external article I came across that has great information on Semaglutides I'd like to share! physiciansweekly.com by...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Sep 261 min read
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Navigating Life's Sliding Scale: Finding Balance
The last few weeks of travel stress + personal / family / professional responsibilities + menopause took a serious toll on my health....
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Sep 102 min read
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Lifestyle is A Choice. Treatment After a Heart Attack is not.
When my son was younger, I enjoyed reading him a series of books called The Power to Choose. The main character, a...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Aug 232 min read
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BDNF: The Brain Fertilizer
​​ What is BDNF? • ​BDNF stands for Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor . • ​It's a protein found throughout the brain and nervous system....
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Aug 193 min read
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5 Lessons from the Blue Zone Sardinia
A Blue Zone is a region where people live significantly longer than average, with high concentrations of centenarians (people aged 100 or...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Aug 173 min read
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Food Decisions
My personal relationship with food has been transformed over the past few years. Through consistent nutritional self-education and...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jul 293 min read
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Ikigai
Ikigai , the "reason for being", is a powerful Japanese concept that holds deeply personal significance. For the last few years, Ikigai...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jul 211 min read
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The Anti-inflammatory Diet
Diet is one of the leading risk factors of death and disability in the United States. Conditions such as cardiovascular diseases,...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jul 154 min read
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GLP-1/GIP induced muscle loss
GLP-1 and GIP are two known incretins, which are hormones produced in the GI tract and partially account for the postprandial insulin...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jul 122 min read
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Women's Midlife Weight Gain
Midlife, defined as occurring between the ages of 40 and 65 years, is a time of significant physical and hormone changes for women....
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jul 72 min read
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Insulin resistance - the silent epidemic
Insulin resistance affects 88% of adults in United States and it is associated with numerous chronic conditions as heart disease,...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jun 252 min read
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The science of Lifestyle
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the case of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jun 152 min read
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What is Lifestyle Medicine?
"Healthy lifestyles should be a right, not a privilege, and access to lifestyle medicine should be equitable for all"Â Â Â Â ...
Dr. Gina Casian, MD
Jun 112 min read
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