Gallbladder-related issues can cause a range of symptoms, some of which can become so severe your doctor may recommend gallbladder surgery for treatment. [Read more]
The gallbladder is a storage vessel where digestive fluids sit until they are needed. In cases where digestive fluids are overproduced the fluids in the gallbladder can solidify and form into painful stones. [Read more]
You’ve just turned 50, and among the other milestones of this age is the recommendation to visit a general surgeon in Ft. Myers for a colonoscopy. [Read more]
When you develop symptoms and your doctor diagnoses appendicitis, it is important that a general surgeon become involved in your care as soon as possible as you could require an appendectomy very soon. [Read more]
There is an old saying about not being able to teach an old dog new tricks, and when it comes to losing weight there are many who assume that once they’ve reached a certain age there is just no point in trying to make changes. However, the facts don’t back up this point of view. [Read more]
Losing weight becomes more difficult the older you become. For so many people, a quick trip down memory lane is enough to confirm this entirely. As teenagers and even in your early twenties, gaining a few pounds over the holidays was easy enough to remedy by the time summer came around. The older you get, the more difficult this seems to attain, and before you know it you could be facing several years-worth of holiday pounds all at once, with no seeming easy trick for making them disappear. [Read more]
Hands down, the best way to lose weight fast is to have weight loss surgery. This is proven to not only be the most successful way to lose weight fast, but it is also proven to be one of the best methods for keeping the weight off long-term. [Read more]
Sometimes it is hard to get up the motivation to go to the gym. After a long week at the office, by the time the weekend comes it can take a lot of mental energy to convince yourself that heading to the gym is worth the hassle—especially when you know it will be the only […]
When you first embark on any new wellness program, the ins and outs of figuring out the new system can be stressful, and sometimes it can feel like sticking with the program long-term is going to be too much to handle. But the longer you stick with a wellness program, the easier it becomes to […]
There are plenty of reasons as to why working out at home is more convenient than working out at the gym or with friends. When you work out at home, you work out on your time, when you are available, and without the need for any sort of additional support with watching the kids or cooking dinner. [Read more]