It is no secret that Americans are getting fatter at an alarming rate and the obesity statistics are becoming very concerning for doctors and health care practitioners. Obesity is associated with increased risk of just about every disease and is bankrupting our health care system. Despite more and more attention given to this topic, nothing seems to be working well. In my anti aging medical practice, I will lay out a simple plan for what truly works. 1. What is your why? If you don’t have a great reason to stay in shape then you will 100% fail every time
Would you take them something that caused accumulation of fat, bone loss, loss of muscle, depression, fatigue, low sex drive, erectile dysfunction, heart disease and early dementia? Obviously that is a rhetorical question but that is what you are doing by not optimizing your testosterone levels. Men and women both lose testosterone as they age (some faster than others) and benefit from having this hormone replaced. Ninety-Nine percent of the men and women who I treat in my anti aging practice receive bio-identical testosterone replacement and I am going to use this blog post to explain why. 1. Why should
You’re 40 years old and one day realized that you just went a week without thinking about sex, you are starting have some erectile dysfunction, you have little to no energy to work out and you are 20 pounds heavier than you should be based on how you eat. Your doctor wants to put you on a statin to lower your cholesterol, a blood pressure medication and told you that you need to lose weight. What I am describing is the male menopause commonly referred to as andropause. It is a myriad of symptoms as a result of primarily low
If you are going through menopause and experiencing the symptoms of low estrogen then this article is for you. I am going to explain why all women who have low estrogen symptoms will benefit by using an estrogen cream. All menopausal women who are no longer producing estrogen on their own require estrogen cream for the rest of their life in order to protect their bones, heart and brain. Estrogen protects women against heart attacks and strokes, osteoporosis, alzheimer’s disease and early cognitive decline, vaginal atrophy, urinary incontinence, colon cancer, cataracts and macular degeneration. In other words, not taking estrogen
Obesity in the United States is becoming an epidemic and there are more books written about diets to lose weight than any other health care topic. Men and women are struggling to figure out why eating less and exercising more is not working. Every day men and women come to my office telling me that “I can’t seem to lose these last 10-15 pounds around my midsection no matter how hard I try.” What Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and Lindora fail to tell you is that your hormone levels are in the bottom 25% of the normal range and it
