Do crossword puzzles and Sudoku really help you stay mentally sharp? Or do they just make you better at Sudoku and crossword puzzles?

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There’s a lot of information out there about exercise—which exercises are best, what kind of activity produces which results, how often to exercise, etc. None of this information is useful if you lack the motivation to start in the first place.

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It sounds like science fiction but it’s not. As described in the Your Health section of the June 2009 Erickson Tribune, high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) can destroy tumors and cancer—it’s called ablation—without making any incisions. 

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World congress on medical home models and chronic conditions coming May 19,20 in Virginia. Are you going? Our Chief Medical Officer, Matt Narrett will be there. Check it out and if you go there from here you can receive a  $500 discount, PROMO CODE below.  This code cannot be used for the government rate or applied towards a current registration.  The website for the event is http://www.worldcongress.com/CCC     PROMO CODE: XUQ249

Hope we see you there!

Most of us, from time to time, find ourselves forgeting things. While this seems to occur as we age, it really can happen at any time. How many of you park your car when you go to shop and can’t remember where your car is? How many find yourselves driving on autopilot and suddenly you don’t know where you are going?

Our team recently wrote a book coming out this July, Old is the New Young, Erickson’s Secrets to Healthy Aging. The authors did a whole segment on the brain and memory with a test for your memory. More about that to come soon. But I took a comment from the book

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