Health is at all of our fingertips Your health is formed by your daily habits

By Keisha D. Harvey, MD President, Founder, Medical Director Dr. K’s Family Medicine

Health is at all of our fingertips. Your overall health is not about the medications or supplements that you take. Your health is formed by your daily habits. If you want to be healthy and live a long time you must take these principles into consideration. First you must learn how to reduce your stress. Stress causes inflammation and long term inflammation leads to disease. You must learn how to sleep well. A good night’s sleep improves performance, boosts your mood, aids in weight loss, and has so many additional health benefits. You must exercise at least 30 minutes per day and five times

Keisha D. Harvey, MD

per week to fight disease. Exercise helps with erectile dysfunction, dysmenor- rhea, improves sleep and has similar benefits to sleep. We must choose better foods and reduce fast food consumption. The father of medicine, Hippocrates (student of Imhotep), stated “Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine.” He believed that he was talking to the doctors of today, however very few people have the nutrition discussion with their physicians. With the shift of people desiring more natural remedies, it is my hope that people will desire more natural foods. Your food is your medicine. Lastly, for good health, a person must have a safe community with livable conditions. The community must entail a since of connectedness where people are invested in the prosperity of one another.