If you are an athlete or active person who wants to keep competing, but your body just won’t allow it, or if you are a man who feels he is losing his MOJO, consider Bio-identical Hormone Therapy to help your body function as it did 10 years ago! In this post, we want to encourage…
It is no secret that the newest way to get your body its daily dose of nutrients is through an IV Infusion. Not only can it be found down the produce isle, but now down the line of an IV tube. The world we live in is heavily saturated with chemicals, pollutants, and even what…
“Something is happening to me. It used to be after a long workweek or a girl’s night out, but now it is every night. Here is the scenario: I go to bed at my usual time around 10pm. I take my shower, go through my routine of cleansing, toning, tightening, and protecting my skin, and…
You made it through the honeymoon phase, had a child or two, possibly moved into your dream home, and just leaped over a big hurdle called the “seven year itch.” Between running back and forth with different practices, cub scout meetings, and taco Tuesday your life has fallen into a very normal routine. One day…
By Erika Schwartz, MD When my editor gave me the topic for this month’s column, I thought it funny. Doesn’t everyone know how hormones affect everything we do? Doesn’t everyone know we are our hormone balance? Unfortunately, the answer to these questions is still no. To someone like me who has been working with hormones…
Veterans Affairs Research Communications A Veterans Affairs database study of more than 83,000 patients found that men whose low testosterone was restored to normal through gels, patches, or injections had a lower risk of heart attack, stroke, or death from any cause, versus similar men who were not treated. The study also found that men…
The Million Women Study was conducted by The University of Oxford with the goal of recruiting women in the UK to answer the following questions: What effects do combined oestrogen and progestagen hormone replacement therapy (HRT) preparations have on breast cancer risk? Are breast cancers detected at screening in women who have used HRT or…
The value of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) older men is now being hotly debated. Our study offers comment on two points within that debate: 1) the musculoskeletal benefits of TRT and 2) the cardiovascular (CV) risks of TRT. First, the Endocrine Society’s 2010 guidelines for TRT state that the musculoskeletal effects of testosterone are unproven…