Health & Wellness
Your trusted source for living well in Lake Country. Explore expert advice, healthy lifestyle tips, and the latest in wellness trends—helping you care for your body, mind, and spirit every day.

Heart Health
Navicent Health Reminds You to Act FAST for Stroke
(In the above photo, Navicent Health’s stroke team receives their ninth Get With the Guidelines award in June 2019.) Each ...

Healthy Living
Helping Your Community Thrive on the Other Side: Things to Consider as We Reopen
In the next few months, we expect our communities to slowly start reopening. While we’re all eager to reboot our ...

Health & Wellness
Tips to Improve Your Sleep, Tonight
Did you awaken this morning ready to rise and shine? Did you feel well-rested? Or, did you (or did you ...

Health & Wellness
Lockdown Lift Tips – Are You Ready?
By Kay Hutchison For many of us it seems that we are actually now in more uncertain times than we ...

Chronic Pain
Is Sitting Causing Your Back Pain?
The body’s natural instinct is to move. Yet various studies have found that an American adult spends from eight to ...

Healthy Living
Staying Safe and Healthy During Proposed Re-Openings
COVID-19 has brought our world to a standstill, and now after a Stop-the-Spread, Flattening-the-Curve, Shelter-in-Place point in time, our nation ...

Chronic Pain
Meniscus Surgery: Tips on Myths and Facts
There’s no mistaking the negative effects a tear in the knee’s meniscus – the C-shape of cartilage cushioning the space ...

Heart Health
St. Mary’s First Hospital in Georgia to Implant Revolutionary New Pacemaker
In a marching band, every musician knows when to play because the drum major signals the beat. Fast or slow, ...

Health & Wellness
Supercharge Your Immune System To Combat Illness – Including COVID-19
As COVID-19 has spread around the world, data has shown that those with weakened immune systems are among the most susceptible to ...

Vision Care Health & Wellness
Blue Light Protection From Digital Devices
By Dr. Rudrani Banik Digital device use and screen time have long been on the rise, but now during the ...















