The Importance Of Identifying Signs Of Serious Illness

November 10, 2020
00:00 22:31
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Hello and thank you for joining us on this week’s podcast!

This week we’re diving into a very important topic regarding the importance of recognizing the signs of serious illness. Specifically we are focusing on stroke, heart attacks, and diabetes.

These common diseases can be devastating to individuals and families and recognizing the signs of any of these occurring is crucial to staying healthy, getting treatment or prevention.

We all live busy and active lives at one point or another and can easily forget to take signs  of shortness of breath, numbness or constant tiredness seriously. We easily attribute it to the effects of living our lives but the reality is that there is a possibility that it could be signs of something more serious.

In This Podcast You Will Learn:

1). Why it’s so important to remember the importance of keeping signs of illness at the top of our minds especially as we get older.

2). Some examples of how to find out if someone is showing signs of a serious illness as sometimes we may not even recognize these signs or take them seriously.

3). Some of the common symptoms that we can identify pertaining to heart attack, diabetes or a stroke.

4). Why some of these symptoms are hard to identify as possible leads in to serious illness and why getting them checked out as soon as possible is the best way to avoid issues down the road.

5).  Why you should always find a doctor that you feel is paying attention to your needs and concerns. Don’t just stay with someone because you’ve always been there. If they aren’t listening to you and your concerns about these kinds of signs then find someone who will.

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Thank you again for joining us on this episode. Serious illness is a reality of our lives and making sure we pay attention to the signs that could be telling us something is so important.

We hope you found this episode helpful and informative and hopefully it helps inspire you to stay aware and listen to your body when you think it might be telling you something.

Til the next episode, stay healthy!

Team Meredith

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Meredith Chen is an AFAA-certified personal and group fitness trainer and the host of the popular YouTube channel, Senior Fitness with Meredith. She has been training for over 15 years, has been endorsed by healthcare professionals and physical therapists, and has shadowed top industry experts to continuously create the best and safest content for her viewers and participants.

Meredith became interested in working with older adults after a client asked her to become the Fitness Coordinator at a local senior community, and the rest is history! Meredith has a passion for motivating others to lead happy and healthy lifestyles and is dedicated to helping seniors enrich their mental, physical, and nutritional wellness. Her goals are to help all audiences in their health and fitness journey, be an overall inspiration, and help others reach their goals.

Meredith says, “I see fitness not just as a ‘go, go, go,’ ‘push yourself harder,’ ‘run faster’ objective. It is more purposeful, more long-term in benefits, and for overall wellness.”
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