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  • Is CrossFit Safe When You’re Pregnant?

    Over the past several years, ultra-intense exercise programs have become increasingly popular. From P90X to INSANITY to High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), it seems there’s no shortage of fitness gurus promoting the benefits of fast, high-intensity workouts designed to push your body to the limit.  Arguably, one program stands out among the rest as the most popular and most intense of the bunch: CrossFit. Once an underground fitness movement mostly practiced by elite military units and die-hard fitness fanatics, CrossFit is now a mainstream phenomenon that’s attracted hundreds of thousands of followers, from Hollywood A-listers to everyday working professionals. Increasingly, CrossFit has also become a trendy way for expecting women to stay in shape during their pregnancies. Unsurprisingly, it’s led many people to wonder if CrossFit and programs like it are safe for moms-to-be.

  • How to Regain Your Lost Appetite After Cancer Treatment

    Imagine this: You wake up one morning feeling somewhat hungry, so you decide to eat a bowl of cereal and some fruit. But after breakfast, you feel so full that you skip lunch entirely and don’t feel hungry the rest of the afternoon. By the time dinner rolls around, you still don’t have much of an appetite, so you end up having a small snack instead.

  • Coping with Chemo Brain

    You’re driving to work one morning, listening to the radio and enjoying your cup of coffee. Sure, there’s a bit of traffic but nothing major slowing you down. Then, just as you enter onto the highway, you realize—you can’t recall how to get to work. Is it exit 75 or 76? Do you make a right at the second light or the third? This is ridiculous, you think. How can you not remember how to get to work? You’ve driven there a million times.

  • Aspirin and Pancreatic Cancer: Is There a Magic Pill?

    It’s known as “the silent disease.” The symptoms are hard to recognize, and they often go unnoticed for months or even years. This year alone, 46,000 people will be diagnosed with it—and nearly 40,000 will die because of it.

  • More Breast Cancer Myths Debunked

    In the heart of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, one can’t help but notice the tremendous efforts that are taking place all around us. From pink cleats and gloves on the football field to neighborhood rallies and fundraisers, people all across the country have come together to help shed light on this disease that affects 1 in 8 women.

  • Dangerous Trend: HGH Use on the Rise Among High School Athletes

    Bigger, faster, stronger—these are just some of the words used to describe today’s modern athlete. From football players to all-star baseball pitchers, athletes are now bigger in size, strength and stature than ever before. They’re running faster, hitting harder and throwing farther, making sports at every level all the more competitive.

  • Movember is here—Why I’m Trying to Change the Face of Men’s Health

    In November, you will be less likely to recognize me—I’ll be growing a moustache!

  • A Day in the Life of a Neuro-Oncologist

    What is neuro-oncology? Sounds pretty complex, right? It’s what Dr. Nick Avgeropoulos—or Dr. Nick, as he prefers to be called—does every day at the UF Health Cancer Center – Orlando Health. Dr. Nick is a specially trained doctor who treats cancer of the brain and spine. He works with patients who are facing the biggest challenge of their lives to provide them with the treatment and care they need.

  • How Diet and Supplements Affect Cancer

    As a cancer specialist, I get asked nearly every day about nutritional supplements and the benefits they offer. Can they help control cancer? Do they reduce the risk of developing cancer? Can they help prevent other diseases and conditions? As it turns out, there is remarkably little useful data about the benefits of supplements. In fact, according to a recent article in Smithsonian Magazine, research has found that there are only five vitamins or supplements that are actually worth taking.

  • Your cancer is in remission. What’s the next step?

    You feel overjoyed, thankful and relieved. You feel strong and proud of what your body has overcome. Your cancer has been declared in remission.