Archive for September 2023

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (@kareemabduljabbar) talks candidly about the symptoms he dismissed and the denial that almost killed him.

Maybe you’ll benefit from some of Dr. Dan Brennan’s tips, too!

Undiagnosed and Rare Disease Program at Children’s Hospital & Medical College of Wisconsin, 2023 This presentation was done for the Midwest Rare Disease Speaker Series on September 15th, 2023. This speaker series is a collaborate effort by Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine and Medical College of Wisconsin’s Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision…

What is trauma? How does it manifest in our lives? How is trauma passed down through generations or within communities? And most importantly, what can we do about it? Most of us have some experience with trauma (https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/emotional-trauma-aftermath), but rarely, if ever, are we encouraged to discuss it. Instead, we are encouraged to muscle through…

Dr. Robert Kushner explains how to lose 15% of your body weight and what to do when lifestyle changes don’t work.

Epilepsy is one of the more common neurologic disorders in children. About 1 in 26 people have epilepsy, and 1 in 10 people will have at least one seizure in their lifetime. Dr. Anthony Fine, a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist at Mayo Clinic, says even though it’s fairly common in children, there are a few…