SEASIDE’S HEALTH NEWSLETTERS

Welcome to the Seaside Medical Practice blog! Here you will find information from me, Dr. Nasime Yazdani, as well as other excellent providers and staff here at Seaside Medical Practice in Santa Monica, CA. We look forward to your feedback and comments on the blog, and look forward to serving you in any way we can!

Looking for Health Answers on the World Wide Web

We’re all too familiar with the search for that quick answer for our myriad of health questions on the omnipresent Google or WebMD. I confess, I have gone there too. Not a day goes by in the day to day care of patients in my private practice, that I face the popular...

Chronic Kidney Disease, aka CKD

Kidney disease affects many of our patients here at Seaside Medical Practice. For the most part, chronic kidney disease does not cause any symptoms. Early in its course, the only way to detect it is by blood and urine tests. Once detected, you and your healthcare...

The Inflammatory Diet

Not until recently have researchers been able to directly link food to the immune system. A fascinating new article in New England Journal of Medicine, a premier medical science journal, “Diet and Intestinal Immunity,” outlines the findings of two studies linking...

The Important Role of a Physician Assistant

Since I joined Seaside Medical Practice, I have frequently been asked about my profession as a Physician Assistant, aka PA. I hope to clarify some of our patients’ questions with a short and sweet version defining the important role of a Physician Assistant. PA’s are...

Best Baldness Treatment and Hair loss Treatment Santa Monica California

Hair Loss in Women and Men Causes, Hair Restoration Treatment I have been on a high protein, low carb diet for close to a year. Though weight loss has been a dream come true, one of the biggest problems with my dietary modification is hair loss! For the first few...

Food Journals – No Sweat

One simple and effective way to lose weight is keeping a Food Journal. What you eat and how much of what you eat contributes to your current weight. Before you change your lifestyles in order to drop inches, you must realize that your success is due, in large part...

Are you still gaining weight on even the best diet?

Summer is here and everyone is looking to loose that extra 10 pound belly fat or just feel a little lighter. Well, if your current diet doesn't seem to be achieving those goals, this article I found on Dr. Weill's website may shed some light on this perplexing, but...

Radiation exposure. Should we begin to worry?

A danger of radiation exposure thousands of miles away has been the hot topic of conversation and concern here in our Southern California communities. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported minimally higher levels of Iodine-131 in several...

Benefits of eating Prunes for A Happy Colon, Experiencing Prunes Explosive Diarrhea

Recently, I treated one of my elderly patients with a conventional medicine called Miralax, in response to the grumble of his dreaded condition, constipation. Two days later when he developed explosive diarrhea, he called back, regretful that he tried the potent...

The Truth About Vitamin D

In the sunny month of July, where levels of vitamin D in southern Californians should be at optimal levels, almost all my patients at Seaside Medical Practice were deficient in vitamin D. With all the hype on vitamin D being the panacea for all sorts of bodily...