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February 2020

Now offering Liquid Nitrogen Treatment! Skin tags catching on your clothes?   Want to get rid of those pesky barnacles?  Worried the rough spot might be skin cancer?  Come in for a comprehensive skin exam.  I now have liquid nitrogen available to treat many kinds of skin lesions: $75 for a single lesion $175 for up to 15 lesions 

Want to Improve Your Sleep Schedule? Go Camping this Weekend I read a great article in Popular Science (Feb 2017) about how going camping can improve your sleep.   Yes, camping!  We know that modern environments with all their electronic gadgets (and bright screens) hurt sleep patterns. When we look at bright lights, our bodies stay in “daytime” mode, so we stay up later and wake up groggier.   If we get away from those bright lights (e.g. when camping), our melatonin levels rise when the sun goes down which signals it’s time for sleep. When the sun rises, the melatonin levels fall which signals our body that its time to wake up. Additional exposure to natural light throughout the day reinforces the “daytime” mode. The study showed that even a short weekend camping can “largely reset a person’s internal clock”. Read more:  Camping to Improve Sleep

Baked Lemon-Pepper Chicken Super quick and easy recipe, great for weeknight supper! Active:  10 mins    Total:  20 mins     Servings: 4 Ingredients: -4 six-ounce boneless, skinless chicken breasts -½ Tsp salt + 1/8 tsp divided -1 TBSP  extra virgin olive oil -1 medium lemon, thinly sliced -2 TBSP lemon juice -1 TBSP pure maple syrup -2 TBSP unsalted butter, cut into pieces -1 Tsp cracked pepper 1.    Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. 2.  Sprinkle chicken evenly with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Heat oil in a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken; cook, undisturbed, until the underside is golden brown, about 4 minutes. Flip the chicken; arrange lemon slices around the chicken in the pan. 3.    Transfer the skillet to the oven; bake until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest portion of meat registers 165 degrees F, about 10 minutes. 4. Transfer the chicken to a platter. Add lemon juice and maple syrup to the pan. Add butter, 1 piece at a time, stirring until it melts into the sauce. Stir in pepper and the remaining 1/8 teaspoon salt. Drizzle the sauce over the chicken.

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Source: EatingWell.com, December 2019

Health Benefits of Massage Massage is great for helping you relax, but it also has more therapeutic benefits:

How can massage do all that? “The skin is moved during a moderate pressure massage, which results in a calming and slowing of the nervous system,” says Tiffany Field, PhD at the University of Miami School of Medicine. "And that slowing of the nervous system leads to other physiological effects too, like a decrease in heart rate, lowered blood pressure, and changes in EEG patterns (electrical activity in your brain)", says Field. And you can get these great effects after only 20 minutes! Treat yourself to a massage & improve your health!

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