Sarah Alnaher

Sep 24, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Alisa Sano |Emily Watters |Marc Braunstein |Sarah Alnaher

Suppose you are looking for multivitamin supplements. You pick up two containers of multivitamins and wonder which one you should get. At first glance, they have similar labels, but then you notice that one has a comment indicating that the supplement was manufactured in a registered GMP-compliant facility, and the other does not. Then you ask yourself the following questions: How much of what ingredients are included in proprietary blends? Where do the ingredients come from?

Aug 27, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Sarah Alnaher |Eric Beam |Keila N. Lopez |Jean L. Raphael

You read many articles and watch countless videos online where life coaches offer advice on how to fix your life. This might seem like one of those boring articles. Well—I hope not! Maybe just a little … but stick with me. Today, I want to discuss a relatively new branch of medicine called lifestyle medicine. Lifestyle medicine focuses on everyday practices that can both prevent and cure many chronic illnesses, sparing us from years of physical, mental, social, and financial misery.

Aug 19, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Sarah Alnaher |Pat Rich |Natalie Enyedi |Peter Ubel

While working as psychiatrists, we have the pleasure of working very closely with our patients as well as their friends and family. During these interactions, we get to know a lot about their struggles. In this blog, I want to focus on what we as a community can do to help patients as well as their families dealing with schizophrenia. I saw an elderly lady admitted to the inpatient psychiatry unit with new-onset psychosis, paranoia, and delusions.

Aug 10, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Martha Rosenberg |Susan Levenstein |Sean Lee Jordan |Sarah Alnaher

According to some academics, in 2019, a ban on junk food advertising across London’s entire public transport network—foods and drinks high in fat and salt and ads for foods–resulted in the prevention of 100,000 obesity cases. Yet the U.S. love affair with the new semaglutide-based weight loss drugs like Ozempic gives junk food advertising and availability a huge pass.

Aug 3, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Wendy Levinson |Christine Soong |J. Leonard Lichtenfeld |Sarah Alnaher

Today, I want to talk about how creative humans are. As physicians, we encounter patients with ideas that amaze us every day and make our lives interesting, to say the least. The best ones are often the elderly, who have years of experience and unique ways of getting things done that differ greatly from the current generation. I came across an elderly patient in the office who had previously been diagnosed with ADHD but did not take his medication because he felt he did not need it.