Helping people to look and feel 10 years younger with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and cosmetic treatments. Treating menopause and andropause, practicing holistic and functional medicine.

What Does Finger Length Say About People?

Can Fingers Tell People About Their Sexuality

It’s been a controversy for years. And yet, it’s also the butt of jokes, something you do in high school with your friends. You hold up your hand, fingers together. And depending on the length of your ring finger as compared to your index finger, it tells you if you are gay or not. And in high school it is then put aside as a joke.

Chronic Stress Can Lower Your Testosterone

Studies Go Back and Forth on the Issue

If stress lowers testosterone, how come people in very high stress work places seem to have more of it?  Boosting your testosterone level may be good for sexual performance and this seems to be a well known theory. So, men look to keep their testosterone up, hoping that it will keep their sexual prowess at peak.

Hormones Are Making You Crazy

Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Help

It’s become almost commonplace to say that we should be medicated.
“You’re crazy.”
“I’m Crazy.”
“We’re all nuts”

Safe Out in the Sun

What Dermatologists Are Fighting Over

The debate about our exposure to sunlight and what it does in terms on skin cancer has gone back and forth. Recently, a Boston professor of dermatology has been asked to resign because he advocates moderate exposure to sunlight.

Osteoporosis Can Be Your Killer

Death Risks Increase with Kyphosis

Kyphosis, a curving of the spine, or popularly called a hunchback, is often associated in later years with osteoporosis.  Kyphosis leads to many health problems, however, besides osteoporosis. Among them, and perhaps the most serious is respiratory problems, and eventually possible heart failure.

Breast Cancer: A Battle You Never Expected

Protecting Your Children Against Breast Cancer

Right now, the health care debate, as far as breast cancer and mammograms is concerned, is centered around women worried that they will no longer be covered for mammograms between the ages of 40 and 50.

Home Remedies for the Flu

Remember what Mom was giving you when you were a kid

Medication, vaccination, be careful, stay away, stay home, wear a mask, wash your hands. It seems like this season, you can’t even go one day without being bombarded with swine flu information. This is the time of the year when every kid comes home from school covered in germs.
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Is the FDA Really Watching What’s In Our Supplements?

Vitamins Not Strictly Regulated Can Be Killing Us

Pain Medication

We usually believe that so called natural remedies are safe, because they are natural.
But it may not be necessary true.

Watch for the Kiss of Death

Superinfection Can Kill You

young female having a cold

Your health is one of the most precious things you have, therefore you should protect it all the time.  You should watch out so much because even an innocent looking thing you may be doing every day can kill you.  And here is how.

How To Prevent Seasonal Depression

Get a Hold on the Winter Blues

winter depression

There is a very big difference between the wintertime blues and seasonal depression. But the treatments may be more similar than you would guess. Without drugs, without any drastic treatment, sometimes it is possible to to get better.  Of course anything you do for your health or consider to do should be approved or recommended by your doctor.

Seafood Selection and Your Health

Smaller Fish is Safer Fish

Fish

In recent years, the fear of too much mercury from fish has been instilled in us. Pregnant mothers and children are urged to limit their tuna consumption, and there are always new reports on which fish are safe to eat and which are not.

Simple Flu Prevention Tips

Your Hands are the Key

Swine flu

It’s easy: you want to keep from getting the flu, wash your hands. Wash your hands, wash your hands!.

The flu ( common cold, not influenza ) is not transferred by droplets in the air but by touch. The influenza you can’t really control. The droplets are in the air, they get into your system, and you get sick.

Breast Cancer Cases on the Rise

Estrogen Assessment Can Be an Asset in Detection

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There has recently been a rise in the amount of breast cancer cases where the cancerous lump is small. The question then becomes what to do with them? What are options? Where do we go now? May be prevention of breast cancer is better, then treatment?

Women Prefer Shopping Over Sex

Stress and Sleep is The Cause

Women shopping

According to women’s website www.lemondrop.com,  women prefer shopping over sex.
Wow. How did it happen?
Sex is a basic instinct.

Can Splenda Be More Harmful Than Helpful?

‘Natural’ Sweetener is Still Manmade

Splenda

There was a lot of excitement when Splenda was first released on the market. But pretty soon, you can see the faults in the synthetic sweetener. Some even go so far as to call it toxic.

Sex Can Make You Healthier

It’s Not About the Physical Act

Sex Can Make You Healthier

If you told me that sex improves my longevity I would go out and try to sleep with everyone.

Is The Person Beside You At Night Killing You?

Your Partner Should Bring You Energy!

night sleep

Stress can kill you and it can come from a host of sources. Our days are filled with stress, we long to escape. Some of us long for the relaxation of home, but for others, home is just as stressful as the office.

The Debate Over Distilled Water

Free of Toxins Also Means No Nutrients

drinking water

Believe it or not distilled water is a very controversial subject. Many people, such as myself, suggest drinking distilled water to keep from ingesting possibly harmful toxins. Others suggest that the natural nutrients in water are super-beneficial and by removing them from water, we are also removing the benefits of drinking it.

Want to detoxify yourself naturally?

Try the recipe below

Cilantro Pesto:

Pesto

Organic is Always Best. And cilantro is great for digestion, as an anti-inflammatory, to lower blood sugar and cholesterol. Here is a great recipe for Cilantro Pesto, instead of your normal Basil Pesto

Learn How To Make the Right Choice in your Health Protection Strategy

Wrong Health Care Decisions Killed Michael Jackson.

It is scary when somebody suddenly dies at age 50 without apparent cause.

It’s especially scary when it’s a star like Michael Jackson for two reasons:

How To Get Rid of Body Odor Safely

The Price To Smell Good May Be Too High

Everybody wants to smell nice to attract the opposite sex. But it may be too pricey.  Because using deodorants may not always be safe for several reasons.

Be Aware of Prescription Pill Risks

What You Know Can Save Your Life

As per a Center for Disease Control report there were 33,541 drug related (including prescription drug) deaths in 2005, in the United States. These number are up 8.1 percent from 2004, and these deaths are not from illegal drugs only. Prescription medications are included as well.

The Lowdown on Water: The Forgotten Nutrient that Can Kill You

They say that water is a forgotten nutrient

They may be right, as water is necessary for almost every function of our body. Therefore, we should drink enough.  However, recent reports suggest that our tap water is contaminated by multiple toxins.

How To Keep Your Man: An Anti-Aging Perspective

Regaining Your Sex-Life Without Resorting To Cheating


Sexual problems in a couple’s relationship can result in so much more than breakup. It can cause family problems, money problems, career crush, especially when men resort to finding sexual fulfillment from a prostitute. Take for example, the recent case of Eliot Spitzer, whose sexual antics brought down his career, his family life, his world.

Can Losing Weight Protect You From Cancer

Another Cancer Prevention Technique or Just a Trick?

Losing Weight

Obesity is a very well recognized cancer risk factor. This fact is a very powerful stimulant to lose weight. But can it be neutralized?  The only thing that needs to be done is to prove that it is not obesity that causes cancer, but something else.  Hard to do, but possible. And in my opinion, that is what a new study might be doing intentionally or unintentionally.  Take a look yourself.

New Study Gives Us A Cancer Prevention Tip

Sex Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

Cancer Prevention Tip

Did you know that there is a relationship between sex hormones and colon cancer? I didn’t either, until recently.

Now we know that sex hormone replacement therapy can reduce colon cancer risk, besides spicing up your life!

How Healthy Is Your Thyroid

Tips for Knowing When It’s Time To Get That Checked Out

Thyroid Examination

You cannot function efficiently if your thyroid is not producing enough thyroid hormone because it is this hormone that’s responsible for maintaining the main functions of your body.  If it is not n the optimal range — you may be in trouble.  It’s very important for you to make sure that your thyroid function is checked on a regular basis. And low thyroid function is not unlikely to get.

Can Watching The Game Give You A Heart Attack?

Study Says That Stress Levels May Be Too Much

Watching sports games on television or in person, doubled the cardiac events rate.  A new study, published in New England Journal of Medicine, showed that watching sports games on television or in person, doubled the cardiac events rate.  Do I suggest stop watching games or TV? No.  What I suggest is to have meds handy while enjoying excitement.

Another Risk Factor for Diabetes Discovered

Can Breast Size Be a Problem?

breast cancer

A new study suggests that increased breast size by the age of 20 may signify a higher risk for diabetes in mid-life. Data was gathered from Nurses Health Study 11 to show that the correlation does exist.

Is Obesity Your Own Fault

America Is Choosing To Get Fat

Obesity in America

Obesity is on the list of things we can change if you want to get rid of a problem, you need to first look for the cause. Rather than treat the symptoms, which can last a lifetime, getting to the root of it can eliminate the problem, its symptoms and help you to lead a healthier lifestyle.

Relaxin Claims To Be Better Than Botox

Only Time Will Tell If New Drug Will Have Same Effects

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Everyone knows that Botox is expensive, so the hope is that with the release of new Relaxin, it will bring the competition out and the prices down.

There is a Way To Stop Smoking Without Chiantix

Lab-Created Pills Are Not The Solution

cigaretteRecently we learned that Pfizer’s blockbuster drug Chantix, that can cause death in real life. Its side effects include suicidal thoughts, depression and even violent behavior. And death of Mr. Carter Albrecht proves that it is not only a warning, it may be the reality.

Breast Cancer Decline May Lead To Less Resources

Pharmaceutical Companies Continue to Worry About Profits

Brest cancer

Statistics show that incidents of breast cancer fell in 2003 by 6.7 percent in comparison with 2002. This is most likely the result of hormone replacement therapy decrease, which consists of equine estrogens and progestins.

Good Hygiene is Key To Avoiding Viruses

Keep Yourself Safe, Watch Your Drinking Water

good hygiene

Last year the CDC reported, that at least 10 deaths and at least 140 cases of severe illness were caused by a mutant adenovirus 14 – a variation of a common cold virus. Outbreaks were reported in New York, Texas, Oregon and Washington. So far no medicine was found effective.

Allergies Can Be Related To Chronic Stress

Adrenal Fatigue and Cortisol Levels Can Be The Cause

allergies caused by stress

Doesn’t it seem like your allergies get worse and worse every year? Some of us who never experienced them before suddenly find ourselves suffering.

Hormones Can Determine Your Success At Work

How Do You Keep Your Job When Someone Is Looking To Steal It Out From Under You

Hormones at work

Estrogen in women and testosterone in men are necessary for memory. At work, especially in this economic downturn, you need to be as competitive as possible, especially when your expertise can easily be replaced by a recent graduate willing to work for less money.

Progesterone Deficiency Can Lead To Tender Breasts

Hormone Replacement Can Be the Cure

Many women are suffering from tender and swollen breasts right before their period. Usually, it is one of the many symptoms, that include bloating, fatigue, even moodiness in some.

A low progesterone level can be the cause of this tenderness. Replacement with progesterone, not progestine, may help.

What Can Be Done About Droopy Breasts

Estrogen Deficiency Can Be Responsible for Breast Shape

estrogen and progesteron

Nobody argues that breasts are a very important part of a woman’s body. Therefore, maintaining their proper shape and consistency is crucial. The main hormone responsible for their texture as well as volume is estrogen.

Gaining Weight May Be the Key to Fighting Stress

Food Stimulates Adrenals, Which Can Calm Us Down

Food stimulates cortisol secretion by adrenals. Cortisol secretions are what help you fight stress and manage anxiety.

Beauty Can Be the Key To Survival

The Way You Look Can Determine How You Live Your Life

Beauty the key to your survival

Everybody agrees that beauty is a big advantage in sexual relations. But what about money?

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