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

Sex does make you healthier but not in the ways you may think. It has been shown that sex decreases the risk of prostate cancer and heart disease and there is some information that men who have sex three or more times a week are less likely to have a heart attack. For women it increases the hormones and betters the mood.

In my opinion it is not the mechanics of sex that make you healthier but the emotional connection to the act that can give you the health benefits.

If you are in a good relationship it helps you much more than the sex. When you sleep beside one your biorhythms are in unison. If you want to improve your health and have a partner, you cannot do it alone. We all know that in many situations. If you want to lose weight, eat healthy, fix you lifestyle, we know that you have to sign your family up as well.

In the end, its not about the act, its about the relationship.

Do you know that sagging skin during menopause is explained mostly by testosterone decline? ”Chicken arms” too.

Testosterone is considered a male hormone, but nevertheless it plays an important role in a woman’s body. There are two main functions of testosterone:

1.  Maintaining skin tightness tone and texture.  When testosterone starts dropping — skin starts sagging.

2.  Women’s libido is dependent on testosterone level. Isn’t it interesting?

Low testosterone in women is common. It starts declining along with estrogen and progesterone. Testosterone is needed to restore hormonal balance and I usually include testosterone in the hormone combination and adjust the dose after a follow-up blood test.

Menopause, in my opinion, is a deadly disease because of its effects.  Everybody knows about osteoporosis, which is the result of estrogen loss.

Now scientists from Washington University found that effects of menopause include muscle loss as well. It was suggested by serial biopsies.

The bad part is that even though women were given a high protein diet they could not maintain their muscle mass. In contrast, men, when given high protein diet, were able to maintain muscles.

So, how do we overcome the effects of menopause? The most logical and practical answer is to get back your normal estrogen level by hormonal replacement therapy. In order to make it safer than traditional HRT, use of hormones with the same molecular structure as our own, is imperative (bioidentical hormone replacement therapy). Why? Because our body knows what to do with them.