www.DesertHealthNews.com September/October 2026 Desert Health® The Valley's Leading Resource for Health and Wellness 2 Lauren Del Sarto Founder/Publisher An Independent Publication www.DesertHealthNews.com lauren@deserthealthnews.com • (760) 238.0245 @DesertHealthNews Distribution: Desert Health is distributed at 350+ locations throughout the Coachella Valley, including but not limited to grocery stores, doctors’ offices, cafes and restaurants, spas, fitness centers and clubhouses. Please call for delivery to your retail location. Desert Health® is a California Corporation. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form, in whole or in part, without the written consent of the Publisher is prohibited. The opinions and views expressed in these pages are those of the writer or persons interviewed and not necessarily those of Desert Health®. Desert Health® hereby expressly limits its liability resulting from any and all misprints, errors and/or inaccuracies any advertisement or editorial may contain. This publication is printed on paper sourced from sustainable forests and farms. Thank you to the Desert Health® team and all our marketing partners! Home delivery subscriptions available. Call (760) 238.0245. Get free delivery to your place of business. MADE POSSIBLE BY OUR ADVERTISERS THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THEIR BUSINESSES! *Photo by Lani Garfield Lauren Del Sarto* FOUNDER/ PUBLISHER Trish Lounsbury DISTRIBUTION Benjamin Katz WEB MASTER benjaminkatzcreative.com Doris Steadman A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING Carlotta Rinke* MD, MBA CONTENT EDITOR James Thomas DISTRIBUTION Heather McKay GRAPHIC DESIGN mkaydesign.com Julie Makinen GUEST EDITOR FOUNDING OFFER (FIRST 200 MEMBERS): • Full diagnostic workup: DEXA, VO2, comprehensive bloodwork • Quaterly provider consults and a plan built around your results • Advanced recovey, including hyperbaic oxygen therapy • Founding rate: $225/month* OPENING THIS FALL · PALM DESERT Humanaut is a proactive, provider-led practice built around your biology. Deep-dive diagnostics, quarterly provider consults, and advanced recovery, all designed to keep you strong, sharp, and independent. A new frontier in longevity medicine is opening in the desert. *Billed annually 73010 El Paseo, Suite 1 Palm Deset, CA 92260 760 2084011 Rese ve your spot for $49. Only 200 founding memberships. Scan to claim yours. Support Front photo: Locals Valinda Martin, Sharon Glasser, Lisa Schneider and Catharine Phillips enjoy connection, mental stimulation and fun with floating mahjong. Thankyou for your Fall always makes me think of new beginnings. Maybe it was returning to school or nature’s explosion of colorful leaves growing up on the East Coast. To this day, it remains a reflective time, and certainly one filled with gratitude. I continue to be incredibly grateful for Desert Health’s success. Uniting our valley’s medical and wellness communities while providing a valuable resource for readers is an honor, and we are most grateful for your support. For 16 years, Desert Health has always been free. Advertising and paid mailed subscriptions have been our sole source of revenue. When readers ask how they can support us, I request that they please support our advertisers, as we wouldn’t be here without them. This year, we have experienced significant increases in printing costs and are working hard not to pass them on to our advertisers. Keeping our rates affordable ensures that smaller clinics, companies and practitioners can continue to have a voice in our pages—and helps maintain the diversity that makesDesert Health what it is. So, we’ve created another way for readers who value what we do to show their appreciation: an opportunity to “throw us a carrot.” Desert Health will always remain a complimentary publication, but if you enjoy and appreciate what we bring to our community, we invite you to consider supporting our work. On our website, you’ll find a new support button (pictured above), with options for either a direct contribution or a tax-deductible donation through our new fiscal sponsor, the Alternative Newsweekly Foundation, which supports independent publications across the country. And thank you for continuing to support our advertisers. We choose them carefully, and many have been with us for all 16 years. Just wow. Desert Health is a labor of love for all of us who write, design, edit, contribute, distribute, promote and print. Your readership is our greatest compliment. Your contribution is the carrot on top. Here’s to your health ~
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