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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Can’t Seem To Get Up in the Morning?

Hormones Can Be A Solution When Faced with Morning Fatigue

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

Is obesity causing erectile dysfunction?

That obesity is related to erectile dysfunction is a well known fact since ancient times.

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Contemporary medical study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, found that obesity is linked to low testosterone level, explaining erectile dysfunction.

Danger of weight loss products by Hydroxycut revealed

FDA warned consumers about the link between 14 of Hydroxycut weight loss products to liver damage, but it took at least 7 years for FDA to do so.

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There is no doubt, that weight loss is very important for people with extra ponds to stay healthy. And any products to help achieve weight loss are potentially good money making machines. And that is what Hydroxycut was using to make money: people’s natural desire to stay healthy.

Light can save your life, light can kill you

What you should know about light: how to use it safely

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We cannot live without light, because we need it to work and we need it to help us get vitamin D to protect us from cancer and to build our bones. But it does not mean, that we can use light more, than nature allows us. We know, that too much sun light can cause skin cancer. But what is too much?

Why your child is at risk of sexting

Are cell phones the reason why your child might be sexting or is there something else?

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It is very easy now to get an image using your cell phone, and then send it by e mail. Just push a few buttons and it is done. The question is what image you are sending. If it is a photo of a few friends chatting peacefully — it is ok. But what if it is an image of somebody naked?

Why you may be at higher risk for loosing your uterus, then European women

Learn how to protect your uterus with bioidentical hormone replacement

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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..

When Retirement Is Not An Option

Looking And Feeling Younger Is Crucial – Experience Isn’t Always Enough

In today’s economic times, many people are finding that retiring at the age of 65 is almost impossible. And some of us, just don’t want to. But, in a time where kids are coming out of college, willing to do twice as much work for half the pay, baby boomers are finding themselves unable to keep up.

Bioidentical Hormone Doctors Can Cure More Than Your Aging Problems

Traditional Drugs Versus Anti-Aging Approaches

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?

Beauty and the Economic Beast: Do You Need Treatments When the Economy is Down?

The Importance of Looks in the World of Work

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.

Bioidentical Hormones Associated with Lower Cancer Risks

New Study Suggests That Bioidential Hormones are Safer Than Traditional HRT

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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 Danger of OTC weight loss products

2 main reasons why you should avoid OTC weight loss products

Sure, over the counter (OTC) weight loss pills look tempting. You see the pictures, you hear the commercials about how much he or she lost in as little as a week. Inches off, pounds shed, looking and feeling younger. All natural. Sounds great. Sign me up.

But hold on there!

Three reasons why you should have sex more often

Having Sex More Frequently Can Prolong Your Life (As If You Needed A Reason)

Here’s two things you never thought you needed a better reason for, but there is one anyway: living longer and having more sex.

Doctor’s orders: more sex, live longer. Sounds easy, right?

Can Mushrooms Help Protect You From Breast Cancer

A Controversial Study from China Finds That Eating Mushrooms Can Cut Risk

Stuffed? On Pizza? A nice, hearty risotto? Mushrooms can make your meal delicious. But how much sweeter would it sound knowing that eating just a little bit can cut your breast cancer risk by more than half?

What you should know about supplements to make your skin look younger and cut down the cost

Simple and cheap remedies may be as effective as expensive drugs.

When you want your skin to look younger, or you have skin trouble, the first thing that comes to your mind is to put some cream on it.  And sometimes it works, because a cream treats the symptom.  However, a cream almost never treats the cause.  Remember, that your skin is the reflection of what’s going on inside your body.

What killed Natasha Richardson?

Even though you fell down and hit your head, you are still alive, right?

So how did it happen, that a young actress Natasha Richardson died after a minor head trauma?

Does it mean that nature did not take care of one of the most important parts of your body — your brain, so that even a minor trauma can kill you? Does not make sense at all.  So what killed Natasha Richardson?

How often should you have s.e.x.?

Your activities between the sheets or elsewhere for that matter may also be life saving.

Recent studies have shown that men who have s.e.x 3 or more times a week have less incidence of heart attacks then those who do not. Another study discovered that having s.e.x twice weekly reduces men’s chances of getting prostate cancer. 

How to protect yourself from the next No. 1 killer

It is well known, that heart disease is No. 1 killer in the world.

As a result, everybody is concerned with cholesterol, heart, high blood pressure etc. Heart disease’s rank as the No. 1 cause of death may be changing as soon as next year!  According to the World Health Organization, cancer will be replacing heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death. What does this mean for you? 

How to look sexy : weight loss

Part 2 of a multi-part series on Sexiness

We all crave unconditional love, and while we may be in a satisfying relationship, we still would do everything possible to look attractive to our significant other. Why bother? Because you want to be in control.  It feels good to have your significant other look at you with desire.  It feels great to feel sexy.. However, feeling sexy may not come that easy especially if you need to lose some pounds. 

New drug for eyelashes enhancement is approved by FDA

Looks like famous Botox maker Allergan is a winner again: it won FDA approval for his new eyelashes enhancement drug Latisse.

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This is a new indication for Allergan’s glaucoma medication Lumigan. While using it for glaucoma patients and doctors noticed that it promoted eyelashes growth.

Explaining Oprah’s Recent Weight Gain

According to Globe Magazine, Michelle Obama is the reason for TV Queen Oprah’s weight gain. At least that is what Oprah thinks.

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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?

Do Celebrities Ever Get Old?

How is it that celebrities never show their true age?

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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.

The Heart drug Digoxin is linked to breast cancer

What’s more dangerous: heart disease or breast cancer?

A heart problem hands down, because it may kill right away.  However, breast cancer can kill too.  What about both?  Not a good combination at all.  But how can you get them both? 

Secret complications of plastic surgery and how to avoid them

Despite its risks plastic surgery is popular in the US because of its effectiveness.

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You pay and get what you want. However, you may run into problems you don’t expect at all because you were not told about them. The nature of these problems is removal of the part of your body and/or foreign body placement. The result: an unnatural look. Not because the surgery was done wrong, but because of its nature.

What Hollywood stars do to loose weight

All people are created equal. With their advantages and disadvantages, achievements and problems. And stars are not an exception.

Even though they have more resources, they face the same problems, as we, ordinary people do.  Too much weight for example. Like re Alley or Kate Winslet or Star Jones.  So what are they doing about their weight management?

FDA approved drugs Avandia and Actos can cause fracture

Do you want to get a fracture? Of course not because it hurts a lot! But pain is not the only reason why you should prevent a fracture.

Remember: it can kill like a hip or spine fracture. It is especially dangerous in diabetic patients because their ability to heal is severely impaired. Should they do everything possible to prevent a fracture? Absolutely – like preventing falls. However, it looks like falls are not the major threat for diabetics any more. So what is it now? Guess what? Drugs!

How ghostwriters tricked the world

Don’t you think, that medical information should be coming from doctors and researchers, from controlled double blind studies and well recognized institutions? Yes, of course!

It definitely should be, because medical information is vitally important for your health. It is often taken for granted, that every piece of medical information is honest and reliable.  That is what I thought for many years since I entered a medical school, and continued to believe for many years.  But not any more.

FDA approved asthma drugs were found risky

Some drugs are good, some are not that good at best and some are no good. There is nothing wrong with this.

That is why we have a regulatory agency, run by the US government, called FDA, to separate good drugs from bad drugs. So good ones should be approved by the FDA, and the bad ones should be rejected. That is how it should be. But in real life it is sometimes opposite to what it should be.

How to explain some of the women’s darkest secrets

Well kept secrets are shocking, because they show us the darkest side of personality. Especially if we are talking about a celebrity.

Therefore I was shocked, when I learned from the National Enquirer from Dec 22 2008 that Martha Stewart’s darkest secrets will be revealed in a coming book, written by her family members.

Vitamins, supplements and nutrients: which brand to choose?

Of course you want your health products to be the best quality, because it’s for your health and it’s too important to ignore.

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So to choose the right brand you go to the Internet and “Google” the product.  And your search returns you so many results, that you’re overwhelmed. Almost each manufacturer claims, that their product is the best.  So how to choose the right product for you?

How to improve your memory without pills

Memory is very important in everyday life, because we use it almost every minute, except sometimes when you are sleeping.

If your memory is not working properly, you are in trouble. Imagine, that you forget where your keys are, where your cell phone is, where your credit card is? How about your professional performance? It may be ruined without a rapid memory response.  Unfortunately, with age, your memory starts deteriorating. 

One more way to slow down prostate cancer

Even though prostate cancer is usually not aggressive, it still can kill.

Therefore, would it be a good idea to slow its progression? Of course it would. Therefore  news about different ways to slow it down is breaking news.

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