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Dermal fillers, including Radiesse® and Sculptra®, are among the most popular nonsurgical cosmetic enhancements around. In fact, they consistently rank among the top-10 minimally invasive procedures, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. A totally injectable therapy without the need for much recovery or downtime, fillers transform your face...
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered dramatic changes throughout everyday life — and in the medical community as well. Not only are providers across the country postponing elective procedures, but many are also encouraging people to avoid in-office appointments to reduce their risk of exposure to this highly contagious coronavirus.But what...
Considering that you've had a vulva and vagina since before you were born, it’s shameful that our culture gives you so little information about these important organs, how to keep them healthy, and when they give signals that something’s off. While it’s normal for your vagina and vulva to smell...
Peptides are short strings of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. However, peptides generally have fewer amino acids than protein does. Typically, a peptide contains a string of only 5-20 amino acids, versus 20 or 21 for a protein. However, insulin is a peptide with a string of 51...
A peptide is a short string of 100 amino acids or fewer. Amino acids also make up proteins, but a peptide has fewer amino acids than protein does. Your body uses peptides to produce or enhance almost every function imaginable. As you age, though, you produce fewer peptides. Many of...
Arthritis is an umbrella term that covers about 100 different varieties of joint pain, including wear-and-tear arthritis (i.e., osteoarthritis) and the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis. However, other conditions can make your joints ache, including fibromyalgia and lupus. If your joints get stiff and sore after being in repose for a...
You may already be familiar with the role that hormones play in weight gain. The sex hormones testosterone (T) and estradiol (one of the estrogens) help you build muscle and burn fat. When T and estradiol plummet during the aging process, you’re more likely to pack on the pounds, whether...
More than two-thirds of men and women and a third of children in the United States are overweight or obese, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Obesity is a risk factor for serious and life-threatening conditions, including heart attack and stroke. Being overweight is one of the main risk factors...
Spider veins are webs of red, blue, or purple veins that tend to cluster around your nose or all over your legs. Like varicose veins, spider veins are broken, dysfunctional blood vessels that can’t do their jobs properly. Plus, they’re unsightly. Also called telangiectasias, spider veins aren’t actually veins at...
Most people associate hormones with the surge of androgens and estrogens that occur in puberty, turning little girls and boys into young women and men. But hormones remain important throughout your life cycle, and regulate everything from your metabolism to how well you think and focus. When you’re plagued by...
Peptides are molecules made of short chains of amino acids. Peptides are the building blocks of proteins, although they don’t have as many amino acids as protein does. Your body produces peptides to act as signaling molecules for a wide variety of functions. For instance, they play critical roles in...
Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes affect approximately 28.7 million women, men, and children in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). If you’re among that group, you not only have to start paying attention to your blood glucose levels, you must pay extra attention to your feet. Diabetes is...
Seventy percent of women and men aged 50-80 in the United States report some type of joint pain, according to a National Poll on Aging. About 60% of them were diagnosed by a physician as having arthritis. Although arthritis is the most common source of joint pain, arthritis itself is...
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), about 20% of the United States population has a sexually transmitted infection (STI) on any day of the year. Without treatment, an STI can develop into a sexually transmitted disease (STD), which means that the STI now causes recognizable symptoms. However, if...
Insulin is a polypeptide hormone that’s essential for life. Most people associate insulin with the condition known as diabetes. When somebody has diabetes, either their pancreas can no longer produce insulin Type 1), or their body has become resistant to its effects (Type 2). One of the main roles that...
The holidays are filled with fun, stress, too much sugar, and too much alcohol. Even if you partied thoughtfully and avoided most of the health-diminishing temptations, you could probably use a boost. Your New Year’s Resolutions depend on focus and willpower, both of which lag when your body does, too....
More than 25 million women, men, and children in the United States have a chronic lung condition called asthma. If you have asthma the airways that bring air to and from your lungs become inflamed and narrow, making it difficult to inhale or exhale. The airways may also produce extra...
Osteoarthritis and joint pain usually go hand-in-hand with aging. Just as your skin begins to break down with time, so does the protective cartilage and other tissues, such as the bursa in your joints. But other factors are involved in joint pain, including how much stress you put on your...
Diabetes is a disorder of insulin production and utilization. Your body produces insulin in your pancreas, then uses it to transport dietary sugars from your bloodstream into your cells, which convert the sugar to energy. When you have diabetes, though, either you don’t produce enough insulin or your body can’t...
When you consider that about 1.3 million women in the United States go into menopause each year, you’d think we’d hear more about it. But, as with many issues related to women’s reproductive systems, information is scant, often wrong, and the facts aren’t broadly shared. So if you don’t know much about...
High levels of a waxy substance called cholesterol in your blood have been associated with an increased risk for heart disease and stroke. However, your body actually needs cholesterol to build healthy cells and produce vitamins. In fact, your liver produces cholesterol to keep your body healthy. But, depending on your genes...
You already eat a healthy diet that’s rich in fresh vegetables, low-glycemic fruits, high-quality pastured proteins, and good fats. You already exercise and stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water. While all those good habits help to charge up your immune system, these days you may need extra help. The...
Fibroids are clusters of muscle cells that form tumors in or on your uterus. Fibroids come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but when they get big enough they can impact your menstruation, your comfort, and even your fertility. By some estimates, up to 80% of women develop fibroids before the...
About 50 million men and 30 million women in the United States suffer from a hereditary form of balding called androgenetic alopecia. However, that figure doesn’t account for other sources of hair loss, such as stress, hormonal imbalances, and skin diseases. If you suffer from hair loss, you may hesitate...
The coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) was first identified in 1906. Recent research on NAD demonstrated that one of its jobs is to direct cells to make adjustments to ensure survival. When you’re young, you have plenty of NAD to: Energize your cells Repair damaged cells Coordinate circadian rhythms Your...
Diabetes is a disease in which your body doesn’t produce any or enough of a hormone called insulin. Insulin transports digested dietary sugars out of your bloodstream and into the cells that convert them to fuel. If you have diabetes, though, too much sugar (i.e., glucose) remains in your blood...
Joint pain and stiffness affects millions of people of all ages in the United States. While the wear-and-tear-related osteoarthritis and the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis are the most well known sources of joint pain, you can also have joint pain from: An injury Dislocation Fibromyalgia Tendinitis Sprains Strains Gout Cancer...
What if you could eat your way to health? Although it may sound too good to be true, doctors all the way back to the 400 BC Greek physician Hippocrates have considered sound nutrition to be the bedrock of maintaining health and even reversing some disease. In fact, the Dietary...
When hormone replacement therapy (HRT) first landed on the scene, a flawed study panicked women and their doctors unnecessarily. Although HRT was originally associated with an increased risk for heart disease and breast cancer, the study only followed elderly women who were already at risk for such diseases. The subsequent...
Wrinkles are a telltale sign that your skin is damaged. As the collagen matrix that supports your skin breaks down from time and from overexposure to the sun’s injurious rays, your skin thins out and loses its resilience. Thinner, stiffer skin can’t “bounce back” after stress, including the stress that...
Why does losing weight feel like a losing battle? Because everything you’ve been taught about dieting is wrong and is doomed to fail. In fact, when you go on a traditional calorie-restriction diet, you’re actually training your body to gain weight, not lose it. At Modern Wellness Clinic in Las...
You’re ready to rejuvenate or reshape your face and body with dermal fillers, but you're not sure where to start. Can dermal fillers really replace surgery as a way to transform your look? They can. At Modern Wellness Clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada, we offer aesthetic improvements with dermal fillers...
Testosterone (T) is an androgen, which is a type of hormone that’s responsible for creating the male characteristics you love and treasure in your husband, including his ability to achieve and maintain an erection. Age and stress lower T levels, which can lead to disastrous consequences. Low-T affects about 40%...
Although you may have only heard about Brazilian Butt Lifts (BBLs) in the last 10 years or so, they’ve actually been around since the 1960s. That’s when a Brazilian plastic surgeon named Ivo Pitanguy published a paper on a procedure that removed excess sagging buttock skin and tissue to create...
The obesity epidemic in the United States has made headlines all over the internet and traditional media. More than 40% of women, men, and children in this country fit into the “obese” category. Ironic, isn’t it, that there’s an obesity epidemic in a country with a 71 billion-dollar diet industry?...
You don’t have to settle for the body you were born with, or the one you developed over time, either. If you’d like to sculpt away areas of fat, body contouring helps you do just that. Our team at Modern Wellness Clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada, doesn’t just offer the...
When you think about it, taking supplements by mouth isn’t a very efficient way to get energy-boosting and detoxifying ingredients into your cells. The supplements must first be broken down by your digestive system. Eventually, they make it into your bloodstream, where they circulate throughout your organs to improve cognition,...
If you want to keep your skin looking fresh, young, smooth, and lifted, you’re lucky that your options have evolved. You don’t have to rely on ineffectual topical treatments anymore. Today’s injectable neuromodulators and dermal fillers improve the look and feel of your skin from the inside out. At Modern...
Your hormones are chemical messengers that are involved in or responsible for instigating and coordinating almost every process in your body. You may know that your hormones gave you secondary sex characteristics when you hit puberty. You may not know that they also regulate your metabolism. If you’re feeling —...
Resolutions don’t just rely on willpower. If you resolve every year to lose those last few inches of fat — and then fall short of your goal no matter how much you diet or exercise — you're not not just fighting to squeeze into your jeans. You’re fighting your actual...
You consider yourself pretty self-reliant. You work out. You eat healthy foods. You thought aging would be a cinch. But you’ve hit a few roadblocks. As we get older, our bodies slow down their production of key hormones that keep us feeling and looking healthy. That’s why the professionals at...
Uplifted, shapely curves are all the rage when it comes to the derriere. Whether you need a better backside because your job demands you look your best or just because you want to finally have the shape of your dreams, you settled on a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) to recontour...
At least a third of the United States population is deficient in key micronutrients, according to a study published in a 2017 issue of the journal Nutrients. The authors assume that to be an under-estimation, because they were only looking at key nutrients, such as iron and the B vitamins,...
You’ve probably tried to diet before, relying on your willpower and maybe the fad of the day to drastically restrict your calories and up your activity so you could shed some pounds. How’d that go? If you’re reading this blog, probably not so well. The problem is that our bodies...
Botox® is a household name when it comes to cosmetic injectables. It has maintained the title of supreme wrinkle-wrangler since the FDA approved it for cosmetic use back in 2002. Dysport®, however, is challenging Botox and proving to be more effective than its predecessor. At the Modern Wellness Clinic, we...
Keeping your hormones in check can sometimes feel like balancing on a tightrope, especially when there are so many things that can throw them out of whack. The good news is that there’s a way to restore balance to your depleted hormones, find relief from annoying symptoms, and even protect...
It can be embarrassing to admit to yourself or your partner that you’re struggling with erectile dysfunction. The truth is that you’re not alone. One study found that erectile dysfunction affects approximately one-third of men over the course of their lifetimes. A very small percentage of those men will seek...
Fresh, radiant, youthful. These are all words associated with beautiful skin. Lumpy and bumpy have never been used to describe skin worth envying, and if you have cellulite, you have those unsightly grooves that make you want to cover yourself up. Wouldn’t your rather show off smoother, tighter skin? You...
As you’ve aged, you’ve experienced lots of wonderful things. You’ve changed careers, watched your family grow, and made wonderful memories. However, age has also brought on some unwelcome changes. These changes are likely due to a drop in your testosterone levels. Our team of experts at the Modern Wellness...
Fillers are one of the most popular cosmetic treatments available today. Many are seeking out highly-trained professionals to fill their flaws away. In fact, over 1 million men and women receive a filler injection each year. Fortunately, the Modern Wellness Clinic has expert medical professionals dedicated to serving you and...
Microdermabrasion and dermaplaning. Two treatments sweeping the nation, but which is the right choice for you? We are committed to not only helping you decide which treatment is right for you but also giving you the skin you’ve always dreamed of. Our team at Modern Wellness Clinic specializes in beauty...
Have you tried diet after diet with poor results? As the new year begins, now is the time to make a healthy weight loss resolution — and stick to it. Modern Wellness Clinic can help, with our HCG/Paleo weight loss program. It gives you fast initial results, which can be...
If you’re experiencing hair loss, you may be tired of trying to come up with creative ways to cover up your thinning hair or receding hairline. There are many treatments available for hair loss, but most of them don’t have any effect. You don’t want to waste your time with...
When you don’t feel well, you’d give anything to find something that makes you feel better sooner rather than later. Whether you’re getting over the flu, pushing through a hangover, or sore from overtraining, IV vitamin therapy can get you back on your feet in no time. At Modern Wellness...