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Health Screening Offers: Should You Bother?

Posted on July 31, 2017 by

Like most people, you’ve received one of those brochures in the mail with a headline screaming something like “Health Screening Can Save Your Life!” They’re filled with photos of happy, healthy people on golf courses or with their grandchildren and are liberally sprinkled with quotes like, “Dan’s alive today because an ultrasound revealed his aneurysm.” Don’t ask me how I know (I just do) that Read More

Posted in Aging, Blog, Fitness & Exercise, H, Health Insurance Issues, Healthy Lifestyle, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Women's Health

Doctors Die Differently

Posted on April 9, 2017 by

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With everything being written about our changing healthcare climate, you’re probably also seeing articles about end-of-life care. During a person’s final weeks or months, costs escalate from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and all too often for little more than a minor extension of misery. It puts a new spin on Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age Read More

Posted in Aging, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, Knowledge Base Tagged with: end of life, hospice care, ICU

Disappointments With Testosterone

Posted on March 6, 2017 by

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For 80 (!) years physicians have prescribed testosterone to men without being certain if it actually had any effect other than raising testosterone levels. The only FDA-approved indication for testosterone is pathological hypogonadism, in which there’s an actual disorder of the male reproductive system that results in the body not producing enough testosterone. Examples are testicular damage from mumps, a genetic condition called Klinefelter syndrome, Read More

Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Big Pharma Evils, Blog, Bone Health, Cardiovascular Health, D, Healthy Lifestyle, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, Weight Issues Tagged with: aging, hormones, lifestyle, male menopause, men, men's health, testosterone

Worrisome Dementia Report For Women and Steps To Take

Posted on February 27, 2017 by

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We’ve always known there was a higher rate of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in women than in men, initially attributed to the fact that women live longer and that the decline in mental function occurred with age. This turned out to be wrong. At 65, a woman has a greater than one-in-six chance of developing dementia, whereas a man’s is one-in-eleven. If the dementia Read More

Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Diseases, Fitness & Exercise, Healthy Lifestyle, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Mental Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, W, Women's Health Tagged with: Alzheimer's, alzheimer's disease, cognitive decline, cognitive enhancers, cognitive health, cognitive impairment, MCI, memory, memory loss, memory loss/impairment, memory problems, mild cognitive impairment

Nutritional Supplement Shotgun Therapy

Posted on February 20, 2017 by

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I once had a new patient arrive with her forms completed, a stack of medical records under her arm, and a large bulging gym bag in tow, saying “I brought all the supplements I’m taking. I’m hoping you can suggest a few I might not need.” One by one, she placed bottles and jars of varying sizes on my desk. When that space was fully Read More

Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Case Studies, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Healthy Lifestyle, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, N, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Women's Health Tagged with: antioxidant, fish oil, multivitamin, nutritional supplements, supplements, unnecessary nutritional supplements, vitamin D, wellness

My Memory’s Just Not The Same…Is This Worrisome?

Posted on March 28, 2016 by

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Immediate answer: The newest research shows that your own impression of your memory–not anyone else’s, and not any particular test–could be the very first sign of mental decline as you age. Longer answer: We all have episodes of forgetfulness no matter how old we are. Ask any high school senior confronted with the SAT vocabulary section (“I just looked that word up yesterday!”). You’ve mislaid Read More

Posted in Aging, Blog, Knowledge Base, M Tagged with: Alzheimer's, alzheimer's disease, APOE, blood glucose, blood sugar, brain, brain activity, brain chemistry, brain dysfunction, brain fog, brain food, brain-boosting, cognitive decline, cognitive enhancers, cognitive health, cognitive impairment, hypertension, hypothyroid, hypothyroidism, memory, memory loss, memory loss/impairment, memory problems, thyroid

WTF Happened To My Sex Drive?

Posted on December 7, 2014 by

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I don’t mean to catch you mid-croissant on this topic, but I want to report the latest research on a woman’s libido and its relationship to her masturbation activities. If you’re a woman in your mid-40s or older, partnered or not, straight or gay, you may have noticed something about your sex drive you’re not thrilled about. In fact, you may be getting downright worried. Read More

Posted in Aging, Blog, Knowledge Base, S, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, W, Women's Health Tagged with: DHEA, estrogen, FSH, hormones, LH, sex drive, SWAN study, testosterone

No More Colonoscopies! (For Most of Us)

Posted on October 26, 2014 by

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If you’re approaching 50, you’re facing issues unique to your next half century. Oh, sure, there are lots of good things to anticipate, like joining AARP for discounts on Depends or joining one of their affordable bus tours to the Dells. You can even fantasize about retirement, though it may be years and years away. Other topics perhaps you’d just as soon not overthink: your Read More

Posted in Aging, Blog, C, Healthy Lifestyle, Knowledge Base Tagged with: Cologuard, colon cancer, colonoscopy

Younger Than 45? You May Press Delete Now

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

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Ours being a youth-oriented culture is a cliché. Yet at a certain point in our lives we may neither know nor care who the Grammy winners were, be indifferent to the screen resolution of the latest iPad, and in the mirror realize those pricey anti-aging supplements aren’t working as magically as advertised. All this is mostly irrelevant when compared with the jolt that inevitably arrives Read More

Posted in Aging, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, Knowledge Base, Y Tagged with: AARP, retirement

I Think My Mind Is Going

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

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It’s fairly common, actually. You walk into a room suddenly befuddled, wracking your brain, desperate to remember just why you came to this room in the first place. Or you’re telling someone about a movie you just saw the night before, really enjoyed, and now you’re clawing at your cerebral cortex trying to extricate the title, the actor, the name of the theatre.

Category: Aging

Health Screening Offers: Should You Bother?

Doctors Die Differently

Disappointments With Testosterone

Worrisome Dementia Report For Women and Steps To Take

Nutritional Supplement Shotgun Therapy

My Memory’s Just Not The Same…Is This Worrisome?

WTF Happened To My Sex Drive?

No More Colonoscopies! (For Most of Us)

Younger Than 45? You May Press Delete Now

I Think My Mind Is Going

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