Health and Fitness

Dr. Haley Perlus continues with weekly tips about ways to empower “Your Inner Athlete.” This week she names those tunes that help her enhance her workout – and could and should help you with yours – by 10 percent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRq6QCeizsE   About Dr. Haley Perlus: The event wears its name like...

Aches and pains? A hangover? A knee-jerk response is all too often to reach for a bottle of an NSAID drug such as ibuprofen or naproxen. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs are a class of medications commonly used to treat analgesic and anti-inflammatory conditions. And there are lots of them out on the...

Telluride Hospital District Chairman Larry Mallard and Mountain Village Mayor Dan Jansen discuss funding strategy and path to a new medical center in Mountain Village. Telluride Hospital District (THD) Chairman Larry Mallard and Mountain Village Mayor Dan Jansen facilitated a community update on plans for the...

Telluride Medical Center joins Veterans Association's Choice Program to provide veterans with easy access to routine medical care locally. The Telluride Medical Center recently expanded its services in order to provide top-quality care for local veterans. The program - Veterans Choice - enables veterans to seek...

The huge success of Telluride First’s inaugural Integrative Wellness Summit left, ahem, a thirst, among attendees for more information, especially about nutrition. Below is an in-depth article by we found about the health benefits (and yes, downsides) of drinking red wine. The blog was published in Authority Nutrition. The health...

Dr. Haley Perlus continues with weekly tips about ways to empower “Your Inner Athlete.” This week Haley talks about perfection, the greatest excuse for never achieving your goals. In sports. In life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga8SfzktV0I&feature=youtu.be [caption id="attachment_54357" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Go for it, but be ok if you don’t get to the...

[caption id="attachment_54262" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo credits: Mary Hagan[/caption] My path to a road bike started with (as the best things often do) a dare. Or perhaps I should say a compromise. My husband Andy wanted me to ride the Mountains to Desert Ride, a 103-mile ride...

Dr. Haley Perlus continues with weekly tips about ways to empower “Your Inner Athlete.” This week Haley talks about the recent death of super star athlete Erik Roner and lessons to learn from his life about supplanting fear with mental toughness. [caption id="attachment_54216" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Erik Roner,...