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See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog One of the new tests available to doctors and patients without a prescription is a test that tells you if you currently have arterial plaque and gives you reassurance for 12 years that you will avoid a heart attack from blockage of the coronary arteries.  The CACS looks for calcium buildup that shows white on the CT scan. ...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog My patients who are listing their symptoms of menopause and low testosterone invariably check the box next to INSOMNIA. In addition to insomnia, they tell me that it is the one problem that they have that affects all their other symptoms of menopause such as difficulty thinking and memory, depression, restless legs, muscle...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Medications are getting more expensive, and the % of the price of each medication goes up every year as insurance companies hold on to their profits.  This one fact should make you listen read this blog, but there are more recent changes in medicine that has caused the average patient to take more total medications, and go...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Do you want more energy, improved your immunity, develop better skin and to look younger? These are just a few of the benefits of Red Light (LED therapy), and BioBalance Skin has a Red Light Sauna. Our Red Light sauna is a 20 minute treatment that you can have once a day every day if you want to.  You just have to be willi...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ For decades OBGYNs and oncologists have been denying estrogen replacement to women who have had ER positive Breast Cancer because they believed that estrogen would increase the risk of breast cancer recurrence…As of July of 2022, The National Cancer Institute has reversed the previous position that estrogen in local form...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ When the human body is exposed to radiation (even the sun), toxins, stress, unhealthy food, infection and extremes of temperature and physically stressful environments, it creates unstable free radicals , charged cells that travel through the body causing cellular damage .  For example, oxidative stress causes oxygen, whi...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Mitochondria are discussed in antiaging advertising like they are understood by the common man.  Even TV discussions and podcasts discuss mitochondria like we are all biology majors, but to most people mitochondria is a word but most people don't know really what they are.  Most people think Mitochondria are "good", but w...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ One of my patients asked me why I was putting her on Metformin if she wasn't really diabetic yet, another woman I was consulting on asked why I'd put her on a dangerous drug, and another patient with Fatty Liver refused to take Metformin because it is for Diabetes and not for Fatty Liver!  These patients made it clear tha...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ At BioBalance Health our primary goal for our aging patients is to reverse the process of aging and treat their symptoms and body composition changes that come with loss of Testosterone in women and men.  We also have a secondary goal   to make our patients healthy for a lifetime and prevent the many diseases of aging!  ...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ BioBalance Health LLC turns 20 this year!   We have been changing the lives of our patients for two decades. Every day I get amazing positive feedback, that makes me KNOW that I have found a unique answer to aging and a health program to treat all the symptoms of aging and prevent the diseases of aging with replacement of...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Women always ask about my goal for their blood level of free Testosterone after insertion of testosterone pellets.  That is a good question, and it is not easily answered. When I was trained by Dr Gino Tutera in 2002, and he taught me that the optimal range for Free T in women who take T pellets to be over 15 pg/ml.  He t...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ At a get together of friends, I was pulled aside by a good friend who asked me how she could prevent dementia, because the mother she loves is in a memory care facility and she never wants that to be her future!  My answer was brief, but I can now think of so many other things I could have recommended for her, and I thoug...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ BioBalance Health® has always been on the cutting edge of the newest medical methodology available. In the fight against cancer, we are now using he newest genetic methodology to find cancers early, when they are treatable. Throughout my almost 40 years of practicing medicine, I have believed that medicine should embrace...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Don't stop at the headline of a written article or blog about hormones or you who take hormones will unnecessarily feel anxiety all the time .  Journalists and bloggers often get you to read an article by first scaring you with a scary title …. then reassuring you in the article . This is the first and primary problem wit...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Many people don't get what they need from their doctor's office appointment in this modern age of 10-minute doctor visits. They complain about it but don't know how fix the problem. I would like to challenge you to prepare yourself for your doctor's visit before your doctor appointment, because it is the only way you can...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ The list of the factors that bind T so you can't use it and those that produce estrogens block free testosterone in both men and women of all ages. The list of lifestyle choices and is much longer than the list of factors you can use to stimulate testosterone. Soy in many foods : It is a fact that foods that are processed...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ What are the factors that stimulate or inhibit your own Testosterone (T) production? There are foods, supplements and activities that stimulate testosterone production, Just as there are foods, supplements and activities that lower your internal T production. Today I would like to address the factors that increase the pro...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Sexism and bigotry are still alive and well in medicine. I have experienced this often during my 40 years in medicine. Women are considered hysterical to the medical man (and some women) which has been what men think about us since time began. This has passed it's "sell-by" date, as has the bigotry against people of color...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Most of you know that when I replace Testosterone hormones for my female patients who lose testosterone as they age. I only used Bioidentical Estradiol and Testosterone in the form of long-lasting subcutaneous pellets.  I have limited my practice to only use this type of delivery system because pellets deliver a steady su...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Most of you know that when I replace hormones for my female patients, I only use Bioidentical estradiol and Testosterone in the form of long-lasting subcutaneous pellets. I only use this type of delivery system because pellets deliver a steady supply of T and have the fewest side effects of any type of testosterone replac...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Most of you know that when I replace hormones for my female patients, I only use bioidentical estradiol and testosterone in the form of long lasting (3-6 months) subcutaneous pellets. I have limited my practice to this type of delivery system because pellets deliver the most stable dose with the fewest side effects, while...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Most of you know that when I am replacing hormones for my female patients, I only used Bio-identical estradiol and Testosterone in the form of long-lasting subcutaneous pellets. I only use this type of delivery system because pellets deliver a steady supply of T and have the fewest side effects of any type of testosterone...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ 50% of men who receive Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) have elevated Red Blood cell counts, and high Hemoglobin and Hematocrits. The numbers that are considered normal are usually normal for men at sea level, and an elevated H/H doesn't necessarily mean that a man will have any negative effects If you have lung pro...

See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ A doctor must have an ideal, healthy range for any test which they are using to diagnose a patient.  Diagnosticians cannot decide whether this ideal level or "reference range" is accurate without a great deal of scientific investigation, so he or she uses what is listed on the lab report which results in misdiagnoses.  Bl...