Dr. Maupin on KMBC in Kansas City on Monday, May 9, in a story about the benefits of bioidentical hormone pellets.
Low testosterone in men causes a variety of poor health conditions.
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Discussion of a CNN Health article that says anti-aging medicine is risky.
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In episode 62 of the BioBalance Healthcast we continue the discussion we started in the previous episode that reviewed an article titled “The risks of anti-aging medicine” that was published on the CNN Health website on Wednesday December 28, 2011.
The author states that anti-aging doctors are generally not as well trained as other medical specialist. I am an excellent example of the many anti-aging doctors who are well trained and qualified to offer these services that include advancements that make it possible for us to live longer lives. Anti-aging treatments—especially bioidentical pellet therapy that we offer her at BioBalance Health—let’s us enjoy better health and mobility for many years past the onset of menopause in women and andropause in men.
Dr. Thomas Pearl, quoted in the article, was referring to treating geriatric patients, which is not what I focus on. Instead, I normally start hormone therapy long before patients reach that age, and not when they too old for the therapy to make a difference. By offering this therapy, doctors can prevent many diseases that are secondary to hormone loss. Many diseases can be offset for 10-20 years with bioidentical hormone pellets.
HRT is a treatment for a syndrome, not symptoms, and often save money and time. Chelation therapy for heavy metal toxicity is not offered at BioBalance Health. Chelation has risks of renal and liver problems. There are alternative supplements to rid patient of heavy metals. Baby boomers have higher chance of heavy metal toxicity due to lead, mercury, and other harmful substances in food and the environment.
Compounding pharmacies used to be popular 70 years ago before drugs were made by pharmaceutical companies. Current compounding pharmacists have the ability to compound drugs prescribed by a physician. I supervise the use of compounding pharmacies for my patients. My estradiol and testosterone pellets are made at a compounding pharmacy that is reputable and trusted. If your physician writes a prescription for a drug and sends you to a compounding pharmacy, be certain he/she has a relationship with the pharmacy they use. The FDA does oversee compounding pharmacies.
The article sites information based on the Women’s Health Initiative study which since released has been discredited. Dr. Goldstein is using a bad argument, a bad study, bad information and miss-representing the use of bioidentical hormone therapy.
To wrap up our podcast, we discuss the term “the standard of care,” which means the least amount of medical treatment that is acceptable by a physician. It’s the lowest standard of care you can give and not get sued.
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Base your health decisions on reliable information, not just media resources.
People are often influenced by the news media, and sometimes make medical decisions based only on what they read on the internet. A recent article published December 28, 2011 by CNN Health made some statements and quoted some experts that would lead readers to the conclusion that anti-aging medicine is generally unsafe.
In the article, titled The risks of anti-aging medicine, CNN Health reported that a 56 year old California woman injected human growth hormone into her thighs six times a week. Six months after starting the treatment, she died of liver cancer.
The problem with this report is that it allows the reader to confuse correlation with causation, inferring or implying that the treatment is responsible for the patient’s death. The experts quoted do not say conclusively that the HGH treatment caused this women’a death.
In this episode of the BioBalance Healthcast Brett Newcomb and I walk through the article and explain why it may not be totally accurate or objective, and how you might think about medical-related articles you in the future, especially when you are considering healthcare issues.
Episode 62 will continue this discussion.
Visit BBH.com for more info about bioidentical hormones/anti-aging/skin care.
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Bioidentical testosterone pellets can cure chronic fatigue.
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On episode 58 of the BioBalance Healthcast, Brett Newcomb and I talk about chronic fatigue, the symptoms, diagnoses and treatment with bioidentical testosterone pellet therapy.
The symptoms associated with chronic fatigue are severe fatigue following a flu-like illness, abrupt onset of fatigue after the viral infection, exhaustion after any exertion or exercise. Night sweats occur in half of the patients with chronic fatigue.
The sources of this medical problem are immune system dysfunction, low cortisol, low ACTH and a low level testosterone.
The diagnostic tests essential for evaluation are CBC (blood count), thyroid panel, ANA, 8 AM Cortisol level and ACTH level, testosterone levels, and growth Hormone levels.
If you have been told that you have chronic fatigue, and traditional medical therapy has not worked for you, BioBalance Health Testosterone therapy will improve the immune system, and therefore improve many symptoms of chronic fatigue. Many patients who thought they would have to live mired down with fatigue, have found the answer with us. Patients who have been struggling with this syndrome, tell me that they have their lives back, by replacing the hormone they needed testosterone!
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Endocrine Society reports heavier women experience fewer hot flashes.
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In episode 48 of the BioBalance Healthcast, Brett Newcomb and I discuss obesity and hot flashes in menopause, a subject recently mentioned in a report issued by the Endocrine Society that hot flashes may be fewer in older, heavier women
It is true that women with a higher BMI may have fewer hot flashes, something I have observed throughout my practice of 25 years as an OB/GYN. The fact is, that even though obese women may think they’re better off by not suffering hot flashes, they are prone to gaining more weight, have a higher incidence of breast cancer and suffer from diabetes and other dangerous health conditions.
In this podcast we explain how women’s hormones work and what happens when the ovaries shut down in menopause. In obese women, the body fat produces estrone, or what I call “old lady estrogen.” Estrone production is what prevents the hot flashes from occurring. Women in menopause who have minimal body fat don’t have the estrone in their system. Their bodies receive no hormonal signals from the brain to stop the hot flashes.
If your BMI is over 30, you don’t have hot flashes because you’re fat is producing the estrone that keeps them at bay. Women with obesity have the greatest risk of breast cancer—thin women have a lower risk of breast cancer. There is also risk of heart disease because estrone is bad for cholesterol.
Incidence of diabetes also increases in menopause. It’s difficult to loose weight after menopause unless you replace estradiol—young women’s estrogen—and testosterone, which makes you leaner. Estradiol and testosterone help make you leaner and stop that process.
The study looked at women with a body mass index (BMI) of over 30. They proved that women with higher BMI had fewer hot flashes. The way the story hit the press made it sound like the heavier women were healthier.
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Symptoms of aging are treated with bioidentical testosterone at BioBalance Health
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In episode 46 of the BioBalance Healthcast we discuss how my practice differs from my competition, and two of the most common symptoms my patients complain about.
Regarding my practice:
- I practiced as an OB/GYN for 25 years.
- I perfected BioBalance Health by listening to my patients
- We charge on a pay-as-you-go basis, not by yearly retainer
- My patients don’t want to come office visits every month, I treat them a few times a year
- I interview my patients, reviewing their blood test results with them before prescribing dosage
- Following the initial visits, they just come in for pellet insertions
- I try very hard to limit waiting times
- My Nurse Practitioners do the insertions; they understand hormones better than most doctors
- I customized my instruments to decrease the size of the insertion, minimizing the size of the scars
- My competition requires monthly lab tests and visits for insertion
- My practice offers the most efficient, cost effective treatment available
About Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue
- Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue have a connection, so they are often confused
- Both symptoms cause a bone-tiredness that is worse than what can be caused by hormone deficiency
- Fibromyalgia—caused by a virus—is an autoimmune disease that causes your immune system to attack body tissue
- Fibromyalgia causes traveling pain, moving to different parts of the body
- Chronic fatigue is also a virus that compromises the autoimmune system and is generally caused by lack of testosterone
- Both are treated with bioidentical hormone pellets
For more information about BioBalance Bioidentical Pellet Treatment, visit the BioBalance Health website.
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Testosterone, The Secret Female Hormone.
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Perhaps you’ve heard that I am writing a book. In episode 45 of the BioBalance Healthcast, my co-author Brett Newcomb and I discuss the inspiration for the book, and why we’re writing it.
Women over age 40 who suffer with symptoms of aging—lost libido, chronic fatigue, weight gain, migraine headaches, insomnia or poor sleep, aching joints, anxiety, and depression—are often told by their physicians that they are just getting old. Mainstream physicians treat each individual symptom and not the cause of the symptoms.
In my book titled, I Want What She’s Having, I talk about each of these symptoms and how easily they can be treated with bioidentical hormone pellet therapy. Ninety percent of of my patients are successfully treated once every four months with subcutaneously administered pellets, a process that is safe, affordable, clinically proven and convenient.
Bioidentical hormone pellet therapy:
- eliminates the symptoms and returns youthful vigor
- eliminates the need for many current any future medications—which generates costs savings
- forestalls very avoidable onset of poor health for most women
- prevents the onset of diseases typically beginning in our 40’s and treats them if they do begin
- protects from later onset of osteoporosis, dementia alzheimers, loss of muscle mass and balance, heart disease and stroke
A publish date has not been announced, but we will let you know on this blog. Visit my website for more information about bioidentical hormone pellet therapy.
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Rules for making a decision on getting bioidentical hormone pellet therapy.
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On episode 41 of the BioBalance Healthcast we present the remaining six rules of my list of 12 to follow when making the decision to start bioidentical hormone pellet therapy. These rules are a process you should apply before making that important medical decision.
- TSH test normals are different for men and women.
- Basal body temperatures are critical data to consider for hypothyroidism.
- Remember to look at the whole picture for a gland and not focus on one specific hormone.
- Remember when looking at individual hormone levels the Pituitary’s stimulatory process must be checked before and after interventions.
- Generally, when a doctor says your tests are normal, it means that the tests he ran are within normal values.
- Remember: Unless your doctor is trained and current in his knowledge of hormone tests, the recommendations you receive may not be accurate.
Listen to episode 40, Are You a Candidate for Bioidentical hormone Therapy? Part 2.
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Breast Cancer is more survivable and avoidable than ever before.
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Episode 38 of the BioBalance Healthcast is the second in a two part series on breast cancer. My co-host, Brett Newcomb, and I talk about:
- early diagnosis and catching before it spreads
- huge improvements have been made in last few years and survivability is increased
- survivability requires early detection, education, having a positive attitude
- making good health decisions
If you get breast cancer while you’re on hormones, it’s not because of the hormones. You can still get it, but bioidentical hormone treatment doesn’t increase your risk of getting it. Actually, it decreases risk of dying from it. You improve your immune system by taking testosterone, if that’s the only treatment you got, you would decrease your risk of having another type of cancer. A healthy immune system kills cancer cells before they become a mass.
Decrease your risks of getting cancer by:
- checking your health
- don’t have fear, cortisol decreases your immune system
- loose weight
- exercise
- don’t abuse of substances like tobacco.
Regarding men and prostate cancer, the biggest fear my male patients have is prostrate cancer. Testosterone does not cause prostate cancer and it has great benefits in reducing the size of the prostate.
For more information about bioidentical hormone pellet treatment visit my website. For in-depth information, review my list of hormone medical articles references.
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Imbalanced Testosterone and Estrogen can create problems for couples.
Download the transcription of this podcast.On episode 36 of the BioBalance Healthcast, Brett Newcomb and I talk about the affects of hormone imbalance on sexual intimacy and relationships. We also talk about what’s normal in regards to frequency and quality sexual relationships, and how health can be factor in how we perform. Non-health factors can determine whether or not a couple can relate on an intimate level. In such cases, I refer my patients to a counseling professional like Brett.
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