Dr Frank Lipman

Dr. Frank Lipman: Sleep tips for a restful night

Top 10 sleep mistakes and their solutions January can be a funny month for most of us. We're winding down from the holiday hoopla and thinking ahead to next month's Fashion Week mayhem. It's also the perfect storm to wreck havoc on our sleep schedule. For now, and for always, here are Dr. Lipman's wellness tips for a good night's sleep. More from Dr. Lipman Although we may not like to admit it, many of the sleep problems we experience are the result of bad habits and behaviors. We stay up late or sleep in late. We eat foods that disagree with us or enjoy a drink late at night, oblivious to their disruptive impact on our sleep rhythms. Over

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New Year Resolutions for Wellness by Dr Frank Lipman

Timeless advice to stay vital and well from our archives… 20 ways to add MORE to your life, this year and forever! When I qualified as a Doctor at 25 years old, I thought I knew everythingthere was to know about health and medicine. By the age of 30, I realized my medical training was limited and I didn’t really know much about health and wellness. So I went on a journey of discovery to expand my horizons and studied acupuncture, Chinese medicine, Functional medicine, nutrition, yoga and Buddhism. By 50, I realized my life training was limited too as my daughter (a teenager at the time) was pointing out “how stupid” I was. And now that I am 55,

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Best of 2009, a Focus on Style Flashback

A look back at our favorites stories in fashion beauty, style, wellness, travel, and more 5,4,3,2,1, H-A-P-P-P-Y N-E-W Y-E-A-R!!! And, what a fantastic year it was... I wanted to honestly bring you the best of 2009 from FocusOnStyle- it's our 10th year online and our best yet. Selecting content to highlight became the dilemma of a mother choosing her favorite child. How could I possibly make exception? What about the others? It's more karmic damage than I'm willing to tinker with. Instead, I've culled some of the more timeless and sage pieces that will have you looking in check from now until the time you feel the mood to modify your look-- something you really need to renew, at most,

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Dr. Frank Lipman: The right foods that bring out the best in your genes

10 Ways Your Food Can Bring Out the Best in Your Genes As we are nose-diving into the holiday season most of us are thinking about how we will end up fitting into our jeans. Dr. Frank Lipman shares how the right food can bring out the best in your genes for a healthier life. There are multiple factors in your diet, environment and lifestyle that affect your genes and how you age. Many of these are within your control. Of all the factors, diet is the easiest to control and probably the most important determinant of how our genes are expressed. As we are nose-diving into the holiday season most of us are thinking about how we will end

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Swine Flu, What to Do – Ask Dr. Frank Lipman

The Doctor is in. Tips to help stave off the H1N1 swine flu from Dr. Frank Lipman... Summer is over and the question I am being asked most frequently in my practice is, “what do I do about Swine flu?” My patients are wondering whether or not they should get vaccinated and the simple answer I give most of the time is ..NO! From what you may have read, you might think that the swine flu vaccine is the answer to swine flu. Unfortunately this is not true and until we know that the vaccine is safe, I cannot in good conscience recommend it to most of my patients. From the outset, let me say, I am not anti all

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Dr. Frank Lipman: Feeling Spent? Ask the Right Questions

Two Questions To Ask That Are More Important Than A Diagnosis… After 30 years of practicing Medicine, I have learned that for any chronic illness or ailment, treating underlying imbalances and dysfunctions is more important than making a diagnosis and naming the disease. Ultimately, asking the right questions is more important than giving a label to a set of observations. This is because most if not all chronic problems, from heart disease to arthritis, migraines to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), depression to fatigue, usually have multiple factors that need to be addressed - this is called the total load. The total load is the sum of the factors that influence a person’s life and health, including diet, exercise, job stress,

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Dr. Frank Lipman: Feeling Spent? 5 Easy Ways To Overcome Exhaustion

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Dr. Frank Lipman | Spent Tired of feeling tired? Do you want to learn how to overcome exhaustion? Tips to revitalize your body to feel more alive, energized, and even happy from the Spent Solutions program developed by Dr. Frank Lipman to combat modern exhaustion… Dr. Frank Lipman is probably one of the very few people that I would have ever trusted to put needles in me– acupuncture that is– and, I must say that my bounce-back to feeling myself again from a nagging injury was remarkable. I’m honored to have Dr. Lipman share his philosophy and advice with the FocusOnStyle.com readers to overcome modern exhaustion or what he calls, the

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