That’s the age-old question. So many people cheat on their spouses, or quit their jobs at the wrong time, or date someone who is bad for them, or continue to eat terrible even though they are gaining weight, or put themselves in bad situations knowing the possible outcome. Maybe it’s not just because we are naturally flawed. We can make a joke that the Congressman was thinking with the wrong body part, but why?

And this isn’t a tirade against one person. Look at former president Bill Clinton, or Governor Arnold Schwarzennegar, or countless other disgraced public figures and stars. And it’s not only about sex. Look at actor Robert Downey Jr, who keeps getting chances at fame only to give in again and again to drugs, or Lindsay Lohan, who, no matter how many opportunities she has to get herself well, continues to be a part of the nightlife that destroyed her career.

Maybe it’s time to not just blame the people, but blame the environment as well. Toxicity can very well help us to figure out just how someone so smart or talented can take such a turn.

We have talked before about the term “mad hatter,” which came about after so many hatters were exposed to years of mercury poisoning (1), causing harsh effects on their brains. Heavy Metal Toxicity is a huge problem (2), but also one that can be treated with detoxification done by a holistic professional.

An unhealthy gut can also cause people to act unlike themselves. Get your gut checked!

Gluten intolerance is said to contribute to behavior issues, including possible symptoms of bipolar disorder. But why is something like bread so poisonous? Because our body isn’t made to ingest the gluten that is in breads now. The bacteria is different in the breads we eat today, which are unhealthy for you. Maybe We are not meant to eat bread? (3)

So, even though there is no way that a wife will forgive her cheating husband based on his gluten intolerance or heavy metal toxicity, it is important to know that we, too, are products of our environment. Our flaws not only come from how we were raised, but also where we were raised and what he have been exposed to.

References

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hatter
(2) http://www.cidpusa.org/heavymetals.html
(3) http://www.celiac.com/gluten-free/forum/52-gluten-intolerance-and-behvior/

Disclaimer: to every blog post –  This blog post does not intend to give you advise how to treat, improve or cure any disease.

Take for example, the old cliché about make-up sex. Everyone knows that sex is always better after you have just made up from a fight. Why is that? Is it because of the relief you feel of getting over something emotionally? Is it a way to take out the anger and frustration you feel you couldn’t explain, in a passionate way? Or maybe it’s something chemical, your pumping adrenaline, or something more that leads to an overall better sexual experience.

Whatever it is, you are not alone in that feeling, as the term “make-up sex” has become a common household phrase over the last several decades.

How about the healthiness of an argument itself…do you believe that it does a relationship good to have a fight now and again? A recent article in the Wall Street Journal talks a little about the effects of fighting on a couple’s relationship and comes to the conclusion that it’s good to fight.

And I am sure we can agree that if we are going to fight that there is a better way to do it. Talking calmly and rationally is always more constructive and helpful that insulting, screaming, cursing or getting physical. And this article stresses just that, that there are ways to fight that can completely destroy a relationship. A good fight, where partners are fair and right with each other, can actually helps a couple have a better relationship.

Emotionally, this may be true, but it’s important to know that it’s never really healthy to argue in the first place. Sure, a good argument is the lesser of two evils, but an argument is still an argument, raising your stress to levels that it doesn’t need to be at, causing friction between you and your partner, and establishing a rift in your relationship.

Arguing also releases cortisol, which is bad. Some of the negative effects include:

• impaired cognitive function
• blood sugar imbalance
• decreased bone density
• decreased muscle tissue
• increased fat
• lower immunity

So, you need to keep in mind that arguing can be the tip of the iceberg. There can be something behind it and underneath it that can be causing a severe problem that we don’t even know about. It’s important for our bodies to be harmonious. Our relationships should reflect the harmony that we feel and we should feel comforted in the person that we share a bed with, instead of stressed. They should bring life to you, not take it away from you.

Like with Newton Mechanics, we have to understand that there is more than what we see. The body needs to be coordinated and work in conjunction and when we are always arguing, it suggests that there is something else there that is keeping us out of balance. It’s important to be checked physically, it’s important to look at bigger problems and bigger solutions, be they physical or mental.

If you feel the need to fight, it may be because something is out of balance, and you’re body needs to be in balance to be healthy.

Apply the theory of Quantum Mechanics to your life. To get something in this life you need to apply quantum mechanics. Everything has a connection and wave that cannot be ignored. In medicine, it means that you can’t always be treated with pills. In relationships, it can mean that there is more than meets the eye. Find out what it is in order to find peace, health and love in your life.

Topics are:

• How big disaster starts
• What Official Medicine can do for you to get your life back
• How they created a fake to poison you
• Can We Trust Such “Scientific” Articles?
• Why Eskimo do not have heart attacks
• How to Pretend to Be Young
• Are Bioidentical Hormones officially recommended?
• How they found longevity secrets
• Are Bioidentical Hormones safe?

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But that’s not always the case anymore. With the advent of modern treatments even miracles become the reality. Take a look yourself. Here are some images of Sharon Stone at the age of 50. Does she look like a mature woman? I don’t think so. She looks much younger than she actually is. And it is not only her face, but her whole body. So how does she have such a perfect body at her age?

Even though I have no knowledge how actually Sharon Stone did it, I will share with you some ideas on how you can have a great body after menopause:

1. Exercise regularly: it will help you to maintain your muscle tone. Work especially on your belly area.
2. Drink enough water: it helps to maintain your skin tone.
3. Get enough sleep to look refreshed.
4. Limit your calorie intake: having too much fat will stretch your skin, resulting in skin sagging with aging.
5. No smoking: it damages your skin, lungs and blood vessels.
6. Bioidentical hormone replacement would help you to maintain breast shape, skin tone and good sleep.
7. Stress reduction is absolutely necessary to restore your hormonal balance, to look and feel good and to prolong your life.
8. Plastic surgery may be the last resort to correct your sagging skin or breast shape.

Of course it is not easy.  And unfortunately there are no miracles.  But if you are persistent enough, you have a good chance to get what you want.

Should you have any ideas about how to keep great body after menopause please let me know.

Initially, they usually tell me, they put up with it for their mate’s sake. They do not want their partners to think that it was anything that their partners are doing. But eventually, they started avoiding intimacy, or coming up with excuses to not have it.  They tell their mates the truth and tried various positions, but eventually they get turned off at always being hurting their partners.  And they do not enjoy intimacy any more. Such patients are desperate.

Back pain is a very big issue for women when it comes to intimacy. Many women with hormonal imbalances complain of generalized pains, at least  80 percent of them. When a woman lays down, the constant movement and tension during love making is very painful and she cannot perform. A woman who is post-menopausal or has had an accident with back pain as a symptom, can put her totally out of business and make her partner crazy.

Another reason for pain during intimacy is vaginal dryness.  With age a woman’s estrogen level goes down, making her vagina dry.  This is  very uncomfortable for both the man and the woman.

Sometimes endometriosis (a condition in which the tissue that behaves like the cells lining the uterus (endometrium) grows in other areas of the body, causing pain, irregular bleeding, and possible infertility.) can cause severe pain during intimacy.  The pain can be so severe, that it can ruin any relationship.

So, what is the solution?

• First of all, the hormones should be balanced, because it will truly reduce the pain and brings comfort.  For vaginal dryness estriol vaginal cream works very well.  Long foreplay is also important.

• Another approach is to reduce the inflammation in your spine or joints, which is what causes the pain. The easiest way to do it — lose weight.  Sometimes you cannot do it without hormone balancing.

• Position is important too.  Two positions are known to help women who have back  pain during sex:

1. Woman on top. The movements here are minimized and pressure on the back is relieved.
2. More ferarum (most commonly known as doggie style in America). This position takes all the pressure off the back and relieves back pain, as the woman is on  her hands and knees.

Now what about you?

• Do you have pain during intimacy?
• Is it vaginal dryness?
• Back or joint pain?

Back pain can ruin your sex life and a bad sex life can ruin a relationship. Put a stop to it now. Dr Kalitenko’s website at For more information, www.doctorkalitenko.com to make an appointment or call our offices at 718-382-9200.

You may also find interesting:

• Menopause and Sex Drive
• How Does Low Testosterone Affect Women?
• Can Surgery Help Back Pain From Lumbar Stenosis?

Most people live with depression. Some seek counseling, while others just suffer through the symptoms. Many learn to live with the symptoms until life is only a shell of what it used to be. But this is not how to handle depression. Even treatment, with a psychiatrist and medication, may not always help the ways that one may expect.

Some of the basic signs of depression include:

1. Feeling helpless and hopeless
2. No interest in usual daily activities
3. Weight loss or gain
4. Changes in sleep patterns
5. Restlessness or irritability
6. No energy
7. Lack of concentration
8. Unexplained aches or pains

Just like there is no switch to turn depression on, there is also no switch to turn depression off. There are pills, but they are not magic.

A recent article published in the Huffington Post, talks about how some of these drugs that are often prescribed for depression, don’t actually even work. Read the full story here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/depression-medication-why_b_550098.html.

Drug companies published several articles recently stating the benefits of some of these medications, only to get caught lying. The truth is that some of these drugs were actually ineffective but the companies chose never to publish those reports. In the end, it was shown that about 80 percent of people showed no improvement on these medications.

What does it mean to you?  It means that may be you should not rely on drugs alone.

Depression is always a serious matter.  This is the way your body tells you that something is very wrong.  It was shown repeatedly that depression is associated with heart disease and cancer survival.  What is means is: depression is not only in you brain, it is everywhere.  It affects whole your body.

Depression usually is a neurotransmitter problem: serotonin or dopamine or both.  To solve the problem you need to find out the root case ad treat it if possible.  Seeing a physician is a must.  You should not make any decisions about your health care without consulting physician.  Remember: depression is a deadly disease.

The seven ways you can help to make your life better:

1. Fix your gut first.  Serotonin, responsible for depression, is produced in the gut.  What antidepressants do? Raise serotonin level.  But instead of taking Prozac may be you should take care of your gut first?  There is no such thing as Prozac deficiency.  Also you need to make sure that your gut is working properly so that if you are taking vitamins or supplements and they are not being absorbed, you may not be getting the treatment that you need.
2. Sun exposure but in moderation.
3. Get enough sleep: when you sleep you synthesize neurotransmitters.
4. Make sure, that you are checked for heavy metal toxicity: mercury blocks SAMe which is necessary for cathecholamine O Methyl transferase which degrades adrenaline.
5. Make sure that your partners are not toxic and that they don’t suck life out of you, but rather bring you more and better life
6. More love making (intimacy) can help with depression.
7. Diet: what you eat can make you feel physically and emotionally sick. Make sure that you stick to a diet of lean meats and green vegetables, as well as fruits. Avoid caffeine, alcohol, dairy, wheat.  Carbs in moderation actually can help with depression.   Want to help a depressed friend?  Give him something sweet.  Or potato. See more on my website about the caveman diet.

What about you?

• Are you suffering from depression?
• Did you lose interest in your life?
• Did you lose your sex drive?
• Are you fatigued all the time?

If you feel like you are suffering from depression and want to seek a natural and effective solution, call Dr. Kalitenko at 718-382-9200 to make an appointment.

The outlook for 2010 is bleak. Homes will continue to be foreclosed, jobs will be lost, and less money will be flowing as compared to years past. Also inevitable: we will get another year older. Bad news, right?

Not really!

Though we may not be able to control the outside elements that affect our lives and the world around us, we can do something to make sure than in the survival of the fittest, we are, indeed, the fittest we can be.

To thrive this year, we need to be better than we have been. We need to make sure that we take care of our bodies, our minds, and our relationships.

We need to do something practical to help our situation:

1.    Eat better. The foods we eat not only give us essential vitamins, but help our bodies to function better, including vegetables, lean organic meats, and fish.

2.    Stress reduction: techniques like improving sleep and stress relief exercises can help you to be more alert, work more, and develop and keep better relationships

3.    Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy: working to replace the hormones we lose as we get older. It is necessary to make you competitive with younger and healthier like rival.

4.    Neurotransmitter balancing can help us to deal with our changes like depression, lack of  motivation, ability to concentrate, etc…

Parkinson’s is an awful, debilitating and deadly disease and while it was once believed that there may be no way to lower your risk, we now see that there can be a way to help you protect yourself from getting it.

A new study now says that women’s fertility can actually keep them from getting Parkinson’s Disease. The longer than span from first menstruation to menopause can now help in the fight against Parkinsons in women.

http://www.usnews.com/health/family-health/womens-health/articles/2009/02/25/hormones-may-help-shield-women-from-parkinsons.html

According to the study, though it has long been believed that women’s hormones have an effect on whether or not they develop Parkinsons, this study looked at 82,000 menopausal women.

So what does this mean practically?

There are several things that we can do to try and prevent Parkinson’s disease, and although, there is obviously no way to ensure that you do not get  the disease, leading a healthy lifestyle always helps in the prevention of not only Parkinson’s but many dieases.

1.    Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy: since fertility can be linked to the prevention of the disease, replacing hormones lost with ones identical to your body makeup can help.

2.    Brain health, with things like vitamin B complex, fish oil, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidyl serine, inositol, etc.

You can learn more about Parkinson’s disease here:

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/parkinsons_disease/detail_parkinsons_disease.htm.

According to women’s website www.lemondrop.com,  women prefer shopping over sex.

Wow. How did it happen?

Sex is a basic instinct.

It is in our nature to prolong life and create offspring. So how did it happen that women would rather be shopping than having sex? The answer is simple.

There is too much stress in our lives and in our marriages and relationships. Modern women are eclectic. They have successful jobs, they are under pressure from many aspects in their lives. Many juggle families and careers and this puts basic instincts on the backburners and offers shopping as an instant gratification, as well as a getaway.

A simple way to be less stressed is to get more sleep. I cannot stress enough how much more sleep can benefit every aspect of your life, nutritional, emotional, financial, professional. If you don’t have enough sleep, you can’t properly rest in the time that you are asleep.

While you sleep there is a repair process going on. Part of that process is night dreams.

Normal sleep should contain night dreams but I find that many of my patients very rarely have night dreams. Dreams are created in order to solve unresolved daytime conflicts. It relieves pressures during the night as a natural defense mechanism to allow you to wake and feel in control of new conflicts that may arise.

Here are some easy tips to get a better, restful, sleep:

In order to correct your sleeping habits, you can try these tips. You can also come see us for a sleeping profile to see what needs to be corrected. Once you understand the problem, you can work to solve it with supplements, or other natural relaxing methods.

If you have any other tips, please feel free to send them in. Visit www.doctorkalitenko.com for news, tips, tricks and more blogs on everything from sex and beauty to health and nutrition.

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!

According to a study published in the January issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention titled “Menopausal Hormone Therapy and risk of Colorectal cancer” http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/1/196, there is a significant reduction in the rates of colon cancer in women who were on hormone replacement therapy. However the authors did not even suggest any explanation of this finding.  And what might be the connection between gut and sex hormones?

Very straightforward: when your body can produce babies and hence is full of sex hormones, it is protecting itself from death, including cancers.  But when its not fertile any more, it thinks that it is time to die. Therefore, it decreases its natural defense including anticancer defense.

Looks like this study gives us a cancer prevention tip: keep your hormones balanced and you will get extra cancer protection.

Adrenal fatigue may be the reason why it is so difficult to get our energy back in the morning.

Adrenal fatigue is caused when the adrenal glands are exhausted and unable to produce the right amount of hormones.

Checking your cortisol level is very helpful. Cortisol is a corticosteroid hormone.  Cortisol levels will determine your response to stress and anxiety.

Everybody who experiences morning fatigue should have their hormone levels checked because, in our stressful lives, adrenals can be exhausted easily.

Going to major surgery is not a pleasant thing at all, especially if it is because of a dangerous health condition. Like going for hysterectomy ( uterus removal ), which is the second in the United States GYN surgical procedures done after C section. But can we avoid it at least in some cases..

If you do not know how to do it, then may be we should learn what European women are doing about it, because the hysterectomy rate in Europe is much lower, then in he US ( except Finland ). How did it happen? May be european women have uterus, different from the US women’s? I doubt it. So what may be the reason, that their uteruses are healthier?

One of the most common reasons of uterine problems are uterine fibroids, linked to estrogen dominance. This happens when women start loosing their progesterone which is the first hormone to loose, creating the increase of estrogen to progesterone ratio. As all of us know, bioidentical hormone replacement is much more popular in Europe, then in the US. This may explain why you are at increased risk for loosing your uterus, if you live in the US. But is you want to get your health back, may be you should consider bioidentical hormone replacement therapy?

Links: http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/10136/Nishimura_98.pdf, http://books.google.com/books?id=zqnFe6Kw-RUC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=hysterectomy+rate+england&source=bl&ots=5gVFAxcrzb&sig=c8Q3jNZZWeNJAmYrtaiwobPHq2E&hl=en&ei=cjoPSo2ZIpDItgf-2biBCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#PPA170,M1

The recent debates on Bioidentical versus traditional HRT treatments did not reveal how you benefit from anti aging medicine.

Should you take bioidentical hormones, traditional drugs, or nothing?

Most of the debates did not give you the answer despite that proponents of both sides presented their arguments. Because bioidentical hormones are not the main issue. The real problem of traditional medicine is that it treats symptoms instead of eradicating the cause.

Here’s an example. A patient came to me who has had abdominal pain for years due to colitis, inflammation of the colon. We treated her with a simple change in her diet and after only a few days (!) her pain was gone without the medication. The reason for her colitis was only that she was eating the wrong foods. We were able to eradicate the cause and save her a lifetime of medication and treatment.

This is functional medicine. Bioidentical doctors who practice anti-aging therapies are where you need to look because besides the bioidentical hormones they want you to be healthy and feel younger.

Sure, consumers need to cut down on spending. Every news station has special segments on where we can cut spending, where we can crunch numbers again, and how to save. But right now, consumers are still spending on beauty treatments like Botox, Restylane, and Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy.

Are we really so vain as a society that we would take the food from our family’s table just to look good. The answer is yes, and with good reason.

Right now, with layoffs and cuts in business spending, companies are looking to get the most out of the employees they have. They want young people, who can get paid less and have the energy to do more. It’s terrible to think your 30 years of experience as a bookkeeper may hang in the balance of the wrinkles on your forehead, but there’s an eager college graduate at the door willing to work longer hours for half the pay.

This is the time when people realize they have to break out the big guns and compete for their jobs. The way you look may make or break your job.

A comprehensive analysis of medical studies and literature, performed by Holtorf Medical group in California and published in January 2009 in Postgraduate Medicine has just announced that bioidentical hormones are safer than traditional HRT. The study showed that bioidentical hormones are associated with lower risks, including the risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease, and are more effective than their synthetic and animal-derived counterparts. Until evidence is found to the contrary, bioidentical hormones remain the preferred method of HRT. Further randomized controlled trials are needed to delineate these differences more clearly. (full article available at http://www.postgradmed.com)

But what do we do if we do not have long-term studies so far?

Dr. Speroff, the founder and former director of the Women’s Health Research Unit at Oregon Health and Science University, says “I always tell clinicians, that until we have definite randomized trial data — which we may never have — whatever the patient wants to do is the correct decision”.

One of the most respected GYN doctors in the country, he is a sub-specialist in reproductive endocrinology and has done extensive work on clinical trials.

And it’s understandable considering since the feud between them started, Oprah’s gained about 40 pounds and now weighs around 200 pounds. It’s obvious to anyone Michelle Obama is not the cause of the Daytime Diva’s weight gain. Chances are, Oprah’s stress levels are through the roof, but how would that make someone gain weight?

Because stress shuts down your mind. Imagine that you see a fast moving car about to hit you. You’re reaction? You jump out of the way. You don’t think about the make or model of the car. You don’t think about who’s driving and why they may hit you. You jump to save your life. Even though you’re mind is under immediate stress, it shuts down and the reactions are automatic.

The same happens when you are under any type of stress, including emotional. And most likely, it’s what happened to Oprah. Because of the stress she could not control herself, and her mind shut down.

Here are some solutions to take back control

1.  Use stress reduction techniques like meditation, etc.

2.  Take a deep breath to relieve the stress.

3.  Avoid sweets for two reasons: to lose weight and to avoid blood sugar swings, which can affect your mood.

4.  Get enough high-quality sleep.

5.  Improve your communication skills.

6.  Exercise.

7.  Spend time with your family.

8.  Avoid alcohol and caffeine.

9.  Take a vacation.

But stress may not be the only reason for Oprah’s weight gain. Another and may be more plausible explanation is: menopause.

The reason why women gain weight is mostly progesterone level decline, leading to fat accumulation, mostly in the waist area.

Bioidentical hormone replacement is an option here, because in contrast to synthetic or semisynthetic hormones used in traditional medicine, bioidentical hormones have the same molecular structure as our own. That is why our body knows what to do with them to get rid of them properly. Contrary to this, our body does not know how to get rid of synthetic or semisynthetic hormones suggested by official medicine. The result: abnormal byproducts, linked to cancer.

Does Oprah know about stress and how to cope with stress and menopause? Sure she does.  But what matters is what you do, not what you know.

10.  Just do all the above!

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Sure, they have money, they have trainers, they have surgery, but how is that you can look at a star you grew up with, and yet you look older than they do? Besides being rich and having every luxury at your fingertips, you may have to opt for a more feasible option. Don’t worry, the stars do it, too.

There are many ways to stay young. You can work out, diet, go through mesotherapy, use Botox, etc., but all those are not powerful enough to bring you from your 60s back to your 30s. I have never seen anybody get back his or her youth by dieting, exercising, or getting Botox injections.

These methods are good to delay aging, good for health, and great for life and vitality, but they are useless in reversing aging. If you really want your youth back, try bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.

There is no doubt that stars would do anything to stay young, because they need to keep their jobs. No doubt also that stars use the best treatments money could buy. So what do they do to stay young?

Stars “secrets” to staying young are published regularly. For example In Touch magazine, Jan 5, 2009 published an article “These Stars Don’t Age” where it “reveals” stars secrets like dieting, sex, workouts, drinking plenty of water, etc. But who are these stars? They talked about Jennifer Aniston who’s 40, Demi Moore, 46, Nicole Kidman, 41, Heidi Klum, 35, and others. The eldest example they used was Sharon Stone, 51.  And they really look the same now as they did then. But what do they have in common? They are all premenopausal. It means, that their hormones are most likely OK. The only postmenopausal star I know, who manages to look young still, is Susan Somers.

So what is her secret?

Bioidentical hormone replacement, because the only way to get back lost hormones is to replace them with the same hormones you had when you were young.  Think about it: workouts can’t be a substitute for lost estrogen? Diet and water can’t compensate for lost testosterone.  If you want your youth back, take it back with bioidentical hormones.

There are several benefits to bioidentical hormone replacement:

1.  Looking and feeling at least 10 years younger.

2.  Having more sex.

3.  Getting relief from hot flashes and insomnia.

4.  Improving your energy level.

5.  Being able to compete with younger individuals in personal and professional life.

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Even though we’ve all heard about prostate cancer, we still don’t know much about the its cause.  No doubt, age is a risk factor as well as family history and diet.  A new study from Mearini L, Costantini E, Zucchi A, Mearini E, Bini V, Cottini E Porena M Department of Urology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy shed light on the real reason why men are in danger of prostate cancer.

Low testosterone was linked to prostate cancer in this study (note – consider adding a link to, or naming, this study).  This finding explains why age is a risk factor: our testosterone goes down over the years.
It also explains the importance of family history: low testosterone may run in families. 
Now it is clear why a diet with high fat content is a risk factor for prostate cancer: fat increases enzyme aromatase activity which transformes testosterone into estrogen, thereby stealing testosterone from its target.

So how do you escape prostate cancer, especially if it runs in you family?

The first thing is:

1.    Increase your testosterone level with bioidentical (note – what does this mean?) hormone replacement therapy.

2.    Improve your health with healthy foods like:

• meat
• fish
• fruits
• vegetables
• distilled water

Should you have any ideas or questions please contact me.

The reason — Diane Kruger, who is a gorgeous looking blonde, is Brad Pitt’s costar in a new movie.  Everybody remembers her smashing performance as Helen in the famous movie Troy.  On the other hand, Angelina Jolie is no doubt one of the most attractive women in the world. So what may be the reason behind his blatant flirtation with the gorgeous German actress?

To answer this question we should find out why middle aged men are looking for women, other then their wives or partners of many years, to have with. I’m not talking about Brad Pitt in particular. But after age 40 — 45 men’s  testosterone level starts declining, resulting in problems. This can not go unnoticed, especially if a woman is younger then a man.  Because a man’s nature is to to blame his woman first, men usually think that their health decline is because their women’s age is not good enough for them. So they start looking for another woman, thinking that a new partner will cure their deficiencies.  But this usually does not happen, because the reason is not the woman, but the declining testosterone level in the man.
The solution is simple: replacing testosterone restores ual potency and prevents a man from adultery.  I wonder how many divorces this could prevent!

Hormone replacement therapy is very effective for menopause symptoms relief. Therefore when HRT was first introduced, everybody was very excited about it: patients, because HRT worked very well, doctors, because now treatment of menopause became easy.Then Women’s Health Initiative study results came out. They found that hormone replacement (HRT) increased risks of heart disease, and breast cancer. Hormones, used in WHI, were conjugated ( horse) estrogens and progestins ( not natural progesterone). The other statistics confirm these finding. For example they found that breast cancer rate in the US is declining because of cutting down on HRT. So what is the problem with traditional HRT?

The problem with synthetic or semisynthetic hormones is utilization: our body does not know what to do with them. But our body knows exactly what to do with our own hormones. Example: natural estrogen is metabolized by 2-OH pathway, which creates benign waste products. Conjugated ( horse) estrogen is metabolized by 4-OH pathway, which is not natural. The result: byproducts, linked to cancer.

Then doctors came up with the idea to use hormones chemically identical to our own hormones: method known as bioidentical hormone replacement. In fact these hormones have been on market for a long time. Example — Prometrium ( bioidentical progesterone). Estradiol and Estriol have been well known Biest. However of bioidentical hormones used in famous WHI study. Why? Because nobody wants to put money into the medications which cannot be patented. Have you seen Pepsi advertising? Many times. How about broccoli? I do not think so. Same thing with hormones.

As a physician I’m concerned with safety first. Remember: do no harm – ancient wisdom. Are bioidentical hormones safe? Do we have controlled double blind studies to confirm safety and effectiveness of the female hormones with the same molecular structure as our own? No, and we won’t have – at least in the near future. Because substances in nature, cannot be patented. Therefore no money to subsidize the studies.

Do we really need controlled studies? Effectiveness of insulin was confirmed on patient after he was injected with pancreatic extract and his blood sugar level decreased. Power of vaccination was confirmed on 21 patients only. No double blind studies. Would we get insulin or vaccines, if double blind studies were required?

Our experience and our colleges experience show, that hormones with the same molecular structures as our own are effective and reasonably safe for hormone replacement therapy, if used correctly under appropriately trained physician’s supervision. I know, that they are working for menopause and andropause. The new study, done by Aksam Yassin, MD, PhD from the Clinic of Urology and Andrology of Segeberger Clinics in Norderstedt, Germany, confirmed, that testosterone replacement therapy does not cause prostate cancer. Do we have to wait until controlled studies come out?

For more information about BHRT ( bioidentical hormone replacement therapy ) go to www.doctorkalitenko.com

Please let me know what you think about the safety of BHRT.

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