June 13, 2004 |
More About Dr. Susan Lark
From the Desk of Susan M. Lark, M.D. When I first begin to work with a patient, my goal is not only to relieve you of your physical symptoms and health complaints but also to restore you to optimal health. To accomplish this, I need to understand the whole you, to spend time with you, to understand what you eat, how you spend your day, and what you are trying to accomplish in your life. You are the center of each individual program that I have created because I want to support you and other women in your quest for health. On the path to healthy living, I see myself as both an educator and facilitator. For many women, including myself, I think that each day is a struggle to find a balance in our lives. More and more of us are juggling working outside the home with the demands of family life and we often find ourselves in the role of primary caregiver to not only our children but also to our husbands, significant others, and even aging parents. As we enter our 40s and 50s we find that we have even less energy than we used to have and the balancing act becomes more difficult. For me, the key to success in my own life has been to maintain my health at a high enough level to allow me to both meet the demands of my busy life and engage in the activities that I enjoy. I am offering you the same solutions that I practice myself to restore energy and regain the vitality necessary to really enjoy life. I think I am like many women in that my time is really valuable. I have a very busy career as a health educator, lecturer, product developer and medical consultant. For many years I also had a large and very busy medical practice in the field of family practice and preventive medicine. I also run my household–and I don’t have a cook or a maid, although I do have someone come in and clean the house. Otherwise, I rely on my family–my husband, Jim, and my daughter, Rebecca–to pitch in and help out. But everyone is always busy, and there’s always something to do. I do practice what I preach. I eat healthfully, I take nutrients and I get out and exercise as much as I can. I have a variety of solutions available to me from my many years of working with patients–and that is partly what I hope to share with you. I think my web site is a place for you to learn more about your body and what your body is telling you so that you can respond proactively. As a woman and as a physician, I am particularly sensitive to the “fluff” that is often served as health tips to women in monthly magazines. Often these stories are incomplete and present information in a very misleading way. My goal is to empower you with solid well-researched information about your bodies that will allow you to truly evaluate all health information that you receive. My programs are based on many years of clinical practice and represent the best of complementary medicine, including my dietary and nutritional programs, stress modification techniques, and other powerful tools that you can implement yourself to great benefit. For the best results, I strongly recommend that you make lifestyle changes at the speed most comfortable to you. Through my work with many thousands of patients over the years, I found that some were able to make major lifestyle changes rapidly with dramatic improvement in their health and well-being while other individuals need to make changes more gradually and integrate them slowly into their lives. The improvements that they experienced were slower but no less profound. To your health! Susan M. Lark, M.D. |
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