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See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Are you menopausal and have any of the following symptoms? ·       Hot Flashes ·       Night Sweats ·       Dry Vagina ·       Painful intercourse ·       Dry skin ·       Lack of sex drive ·       Lack of motivation ·       Fatigue ·       Depression and or anxiety ·       Change in body composition, with fat collection i...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Even though all women eventually stop having periods and stop making estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone we all have symptoms of menopause, even if you don't recognize them as symptoms relating to loss of estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone after menopause.  However, every woman experiences menopause differently....

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Often in medicine, doctors discover a new use for an old treatment or a treatment that is approved for one use and serendipitously doctors find a new use for a drug or medical device. I have used a specific type of IUD in menopausal women on estradiol to prevent postmenopausal bleeding. The Mirena or Kyla IUD produces prog...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog My medical practice at BioBalance® Health brings me many interesting issues that my patients have had to struggle with, before they finally come to me for T Pellets. The latest complaint that men bring to me on their first visit is their reticence to try T pellets because they already tried T cream, or T gel or T patches a...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Your Consultations with Dr. Sullivan or Dr. Maupin last one hour! No other medical practices schedule an hour for consultations with each patient. You will see a doctor and have time to discuss your issues!!! Drs Maupin and Sullivan spend hours preparing for your first appointment.  They know what medical problems you have...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog BioBalance® Health uses other forms of measurement to determine body composition, and to diagnose healthy weight, versus overweight and obesity. BMI is a calculation of healthy weight, overweight, and obesity using just two parameters: Height and Weight. The US government endorses and uses this measurement in many ways to...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Every physician and every overweight patient have struggled with achieving effective weight loss that was effective for most people, until now!  Almost simultaneously 6 weight loss drugs hit the market approved by the FDA for different uses.  The only drug approved for just weight loss is called Wegovy, a once-a-week injec...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Most women believe that the only reason to start taking estradiol when menopause begins is to decrease hot flashes and night sweats.  But Estradiol replacement is so much more effective and versatile than just stopping hot flashes!  When it comes to the replacement of testosterone for women, most still believe that T is ju...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog A month or so ago I had a woman come to me for hormone replacement and one of the symptoms that bothered her the most was Lichen sclerosis on her vulva , the area around her vagina.   The symptoms are itching, burning, intolerance to putting creams and gels on the area, pain on intercourse, and the skin is fragile and brea...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog There was   once a Saturday night live skit that featured one of their actors, Eddie Murphy,   teaching how to spell and say Py-ro-man-ia..and every time I see the word sarcopenia, I think of that skit…mostly because it is a word only researchers and doctors use to describe a condition where a person has lost a lot of   sk...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog . At BioBalance Health we use the information from a vaginal probe ultrasound, combined with information from your medical history questionnaire, and an extensive fasting blood panel to determine whether an individual woman is a candidate for estradiol and testosterone bioidentical pellets. We also review the collated info...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog At Biobalance® Health we often find cysts or masses on the ovaries of women who are menopausal quite by accident.   We order an ultrasound before we treat a menopausal woman with estradiol to see if there is a thickened lining that might cause bleeding under the influence of estrogen replacement, or to make sure there is n...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog . I learned about electrolytes in medical school as the substances Sodium, Chloride, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, and Phosphate we check on a metabolic panel. However, electrolytes are much more than values on a blood test. These minerals are some of the most vital substances needed to keep us alive.   Electrolytes can g...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog . BioBalance Health® pellets are very safe and not painful to have inserted. They are also the easiest form of hormone replacement a woman can have because the dose is adapted every 4 months and our patients only have to think about their hormones three times a year.   BioBalance Pellet therapy is associated with fewer sid...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog The most common cause of hysterectomy in women are benign masses that grow within the uterine wall. They occur in 4 out of 5 women, and they can be small and asymptomatic, or they can grow large and cause pain, uterine bleeding, pelvic pressure, urinary incontinence and pregnancy complications. Uterine Fibroids are "the mo...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog If you are over 50 you have probably wished that you could have a face lift to bring you back to how you looked in your 20s or 30s. As an owner of a Medical Esthetic Spa named BioBalance Skin®, and because I am 68 myself, I have spent years looking for a facial treatment that would get the results of a surgical face lift,...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog I spent the first half of my medical life as a gynecologist trying to figure out why my patients would come to my office asking what was wrong with them when they turned 40? They felt they could not talk to their friends about it, and they were even embarrassed to tell me that even though they used to enjoy sex with their...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog In the history of medicine over the last 2 centuries there have been many changes in the recommendations given to patients by their doctors.   In general, to change the way medicine is practiced improving the care of patients, a new treatment had to be opposed by one or two courageous doctors who were willing to put his/he...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog There is an interesting conflict between the truth and the mainstream medical protocols surrounding statins, that we have noticed in our practice for a decade.   Patients who are placed on statins soon develop weight gain and Type II diabetes, and those patients who already have AODM, become worse, gain weight and need mor...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog The Mediterranean diet was originally discovered from comparing different diet regimens around the world in the 1950s, and the researchers found that those people living around the Mediterranean had a lower risk of heart disease and related illness.   The researchers then described the Mediterranean diet and advised Americ...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Recently I had a shoulder replacement that went according to plan, and I healed amazingly fast. Of course, my surgeon was excellent, and he gave me preoperative instructions that were integral to the speed of my recovery.   I began to think about the reasons people heal and why they may not heal from either surgery or an i...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog There is an increase in medical news and research articles that talk about what aging Americans can do to delay the symptoms and diseases of aging. Some of the articles note lifestyle changes and exercise and or supplements that can combat aging…..but these changes alone are NOT the answer!  There is another group of news...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog I often see patients at the office who come back to get BBH Pellets after a hiatus of months to years, that they tell me waiting was the biggest mistake they ever made.  They were feeling so good after their hormones were replaced that they forgot how bad they felt before their treatment. Stopping their hormones brought ba...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog The best way to decrease you risk of developing illness and cancer, as well as a cancer recurrence, is to get your immune system as healthy as possible. Everyone's body makes cancer cells daily, but your amazing immune system protects you by killing them before they multiply. The key to preventing chronic illness, cancer,...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog You probably have never heard of the need for Iodine in your nutrition, but it is a trace element that is vital to human life, because iodine plays a role in all of your hormones, your immune system, your metabolic rate and yes, your breasts! Iodine is produced by seaweed, and is a natural mineral in the soil, sand and oce...