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This episode of the BioBalance Healthcast focuses on how people with chronic health problems or complicated medical histories are harder to treat with testosterone replacement therapy. This difficulty leads to a patients struggle to become aroused and then ultimately reach orgasm.
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This episode of the Biobalance Healthcast discusses what the thyroid is and how it effects men and women as they age. Defined terms are Hypo-thyroidism which is a low thyroid and causes conditions such as swelling, constipation, a low basal temperature and infertility. Hyper-thyroidism is the opposite, and causes conditions like rapid weight gain, anxiety, nervousness, and increased heart rate. These both play an important role in diagnosing and treating the aging process in men and women.
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This episode of the BioBalance Healthcast podcast delves into the cost of long term care for our aging population. As people age, the burden of care falls on families. With hormone replacement therapy adminstered earlier in life, we can offset disease and aging symptoms so that we can stay healthier longer into our old age. This keeps us out of nursing facilities and hospitals posibly until only the last couple of years of life.
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As women age, hormone levels—including progesterone—begins to decrease. In this episode of the BioBalance Healthcast we talk about this decrease which causes an imbalance in the estrogen levels. Without progesterone, estrogen increases and leads to fibroid tumors. These tumors lead to heavy bleeding and often, hysterectomies in peri-menopausal women. Progesterone is not needed by our bodies post-menopause with the drop of estrogen levels. We cover the role progesterone plays in our body and how it effects us when it begins to decrease.
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In our review of specific differentiations between memory loss, cognitive impairment, dementia and Alzheimer’s, Brett Newcomb and I discuss how some symptoms are more noticeable than others. Determining the cause during the early stages of memory loss is the best method of treatment and the replacement of estrogen and testosterone through bioidentical hormone pellets can offset dementia by 20 years in women.
Cognitive impairment is defined as an inability to focus and concentrate, and often looks similar to Attention Deficit Disorder. Confusion, getting lost, difficulty remembering names of people and places, and the frequent need for someone else to finish your sentences are common signs of cognitive impairment. It is common for this change in memory to go unnoticed between married people because one partner is able to remember things, finish thoughts and remind the other of common information.
Common symptoms of memory loss are exhaustion, lack of energy, diminished social relationships and problems with sexual relations due to lack of energy or desire. When memory loss progresses to the point that there is trouble functioning, an MRI for Alzheimer’s and/or dementia should be performed.
People are often afraid to talk to a doctor about these symptoms out of fear of being told that they have Alzheimer’s and will need to be institutionalized. In spite of the fear, it is important to be tested so that proper treatment can help avoid early loss of mental function.
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Premenstrual Syndrome
PMS is the butt of many jokes but for those of us who have had this condition, it is no laughing matter. It has been ignored for years by the medical community, and is currently treated by prescribing the treatment of only one of the multiple symptoms, depression. This prescription is one of various anti-depressants, which has minimal effect on most patients with PMS.
Because of the ineffectiveness of the standard, anti-depressant therapy, there are multiple therapies that have partial effect on most patients when they have a very effective treatment at hand—bio-identical progesterone given in the second half of the cycle.
Option for PMS treatment can be any or all of the following:
Sidebar: it is amazing to experience the relief that women feel when they are told that there is a natural cause and an effective treatment for this disorder. They are so happy to hear that they are not crazy and that being emotional wrecks is not due to some character flaw in women but rather is due to a chemical or hormonal imbalance that is treatable. Success is beautiful!
Progesterone Therapy with Bioidentical Progesterone
The most effective PMS treatment or progesterone deficiency, treatment is non-oral dosing of bio-identical progesterone. There are several important guidelines that make progesterone more effective and have fewer side-effects.
Premenstrual Syndrome
PMS is the butt of many jokes but for those of us who have had this condition, it is no laughing matter. It has been ignored for years by the medical community, and is currently treated by prescribing the treatment of only one of the multiple symptoms, depression. This prescription is one of various anti-depressants, which has minimal effect on most patients with PMS.
Because of the ineffectiveness of the standard, anti-depressant therapy, there are multiple therapies that have partial effect on most patients when they have a very effective treatment at hand—bio-identical progesterone given in the second half of the cycle.
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In episode 65 of the BioBalance Healthcast, we talk about progesterone. Our discussion is based on a chapter of my upcoming book, Testosterone, The Secret Female Hormone. The following is an excerpt from the draft.
There is a cultural myth that women are emotionally reactive and unstable. The Myth has it that every 28 days or so women become raving emotional biohazards. This is beyond their control and everyone in their sphere of influence can only duck and cover until the storm has passed. We sometimes think that if men were the ones with this reputation and concern, medicine would have found a solution for the problem years ago!
I started practicing medicine in 1981, when PMS was considered a psychiatric disease, and thought to be unrelated to the hormone progesterone. It was not until the 1990s that alternative doctors initially suspected that there was a hormonal imbalance causing this condition, specifically by a lack of progesterone. During the 1980s, I was treating women who had PMS with pure bioidentical progesterone and vitamins containing large amounts of magnesium. This treatment was remarkably successful. Even though mainstream medicine called this treatment crazy, I had a very high success rate when treating PMS with progesterone. I have always been willing to challenge the status quo and test new treatments with good scientific controls to actually see whether or not they were efficient and effective forms of intervention.
I consulted with a compounding pharmacist, who I still work with. I credited him with helping me decide how to treat my patients with bioidentical progesterone for PMS. In the beginning, I first prescribed progesterone in the form of rectal suppositories, then vaginal suppositories, progressing to vaginal tabs and currently prefer sublingual (under the tongue) tablets or pure progesterone pellets that are placed below the skin. This widely-researched and confirmed source of PMS currently in 2012, is still not accepted by the American College of OBGYN as a condition that is secondary to the loss of progesterone, and one that can be cured by the addition of natural progesterone between day 14 and 28. If an OBGYN applicant answers that question on the National Board exam with progesterone insufficiency, and natural progesterone as the treatment, they will get it marked wrong! Yet, twenty plus years of practice in the field by myself and other practicing OBGYNs have proven otherwise for millions of women.
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Dr. Maupin on KMBC in Kansas City on Monday, May 9, in a story about the benefits of bioidentical hormone pellets.
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