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biobalancehealth's podcastDispelling the Myths about Hair Thinning as we Age.See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog In my Anti-Aging-Longevity practice, one of the complaints my new patients tell me about is the fact that their hair is thinning, falling out or changing to a brittle texture, as well as the fact that their hair is turning grey. Hair DOES get thinner, coarser, and greyer as we age! That is a fact, and one I can’t fully explain to you, except that it happens to everyone! My philosophy is that each of us should work with what we have, and optimize it...2025-04-0822 minbiobalancehealth's podcastFive More Myths about Weight Loss and Your HealthSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog The second set of myths about weight loss involve what we have been told by our federal government through the FDA and surgeon general, that is believed by most of us, but the motivation of the government is not generally for your well-being. Myth #7 Salt is bad for you, and you should limit your intake of salt to minimal amounts. A large study found that eating less than 3 grams of salt a day increases one’s mortality by 25% when compared with moderate intake. It...2024-09-1623 minbiobalancehealth's podcastSix Popular Myths About Weight LossSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog My medical practice, BioBalance® Health, allows me to hear all of the myths about how to lose weight, when I am in consultation with a new patient. All of my female patients and some of the men have at one time, or multiple times been fooled by the false promises of friends, doctors, and advertisers, about quick and easy ways to lose weight. If you have bounced around trying every diet out there on the internet and failed to lose weight, then I can help you stop th...2024-09-1620 minbiobalancehealth's podcastDr. Maupin Radio Interview with Dave GloverSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Dave Glover, the most listened to talk radio voice in the Midwest, invited me on his show last week to talk about BioBalance Health Testosterone Pellets for men and women and BioBalance Skin my medical esthetic spa. His show is on KMOX, the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals. Dave Glover and I have worked together for 10 years, and he is unabashedly my patient who has experienced the superiority of our medical care that is unique, and preventive, in addition to being the best testosterone pellet therapy in...2024-09-1617 minbiobalancehealth's podcastHeat Stroke – How to Stay Healthy in the Heat.See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog 2024 has been the hottest summer of the decade and it is causing many of you to go to the ER with heat related sickness. There are several risk factors that may put you at high risk for illness relating to the heat. I have been present several times when someone collapses from heat stroke which is the most severe heat related illness. The heat can kill you if it progresses this far. It is interesting, athletes who won’t back off from their outdoor activities, and will work...2024-09-1619 minbiobalancehealth's podcastThe Male Orgasm and TestosteroneSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog In general, I spend my time defending women and the fact that our problems and sexual physiology is ignored, by the governmental powers and physician organizations in the US, so I try to do my part to bring information to women about their hormones and the aging process. Today I am changing my focus to men and the way men’s normal sexual function is considered a “normal” and rarely discussed outside the men’s locker room and or porn sites. So here goes…The fact is that men’s...2024-09-1619 minbiobalancehealth's podcastTwo New Studies Confirm That Aging Men Live Longer with Youthful Levels Testosterone. See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog The medically accepted belief that testosterone is bad for men has finally now been superseded by a huge study from Australia that proves that men with healthy levels of Testosterone live longer and healthier than men with low Testosterone! All you men who have been told that testosterone is bad for you or will cause prostate cancer by your doctor, you can tell you provider that he or she is out of date! At BioBalance Health® we have been treating men with testosterone pellets for ye...2024-08-1921 minbiobalancehealth's podcastA Plan for Health and Longevity to Avoid the Pain and Disability of Aging. See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog On the last Heath cast #662 we talked about the choice of doing nothing when faced with symptoms of hormone deficiency and symptoms of aging, versus the choice to actively live a healthy life. I believe that concentrating on yourself as you age can save your lifestyle and or your life! Preventing illness as you age is as important as paying your taxes! An unhealthy living plan without replacing deficient hormones can lead you on a road to illness and early death. If that doesn’t motiv...2024-08-1926 minbiobalancehealth's podcastIf You Want to Live a Long Enjoyable Life Without Disease, Please Listen! See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog My goal for BioBalance Health® is to guide my patients to live a healthier life by offering them the newest preventive treatments, and safest hormone treatment available. My patients make an appointment with me and Dr. Sullivan for help with their current symptoms of aging and hormonal treatment to replace their missing hormones. They also receive a plan for unique preventive lifestyle changes to assist them in continuing their lives in health. But first, I believe that treating the symptoms of aging is the first th...2024-06-0625 minbiobalancehealth's podcastMedications and Nutritional Deficiency See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog I bet you have heard the idiom, “There is no free lunch”, or “There is no medication without a side effect”, but did you know that medications that are prescribed by your doctor can have negative effects on your health that are never even discussed with you….so you should protect yourself by replacing the nutrients that your medications remove from your body, and that must be replaced for you to be healthy. Statins -→ COQ 10 DEFICIENCY= fatigue and depression Beta Blockers -→ COQ-10 DEFICIENCY...2024-06-0620 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhy You Need an Individualized Weight Loss Program See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog You are what you eat, and you use what food and drink you eat based on your genetics. Weight loss requires professional advice, direction and oversight. Combining receiving the best advice on what you should eat and drink as well as tailoring it to your metabolism and medical condition is what you should receive from your weight loss program. Before you embark on a weight loss program you need to know the following lessons. Lesson #1: All Calories Do Not Create the Sa...2024-06-0628 minbiobalancehealth's podcastIodine: Why You Need this Supplement! See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog If you have hypothyroidism (Low thyroid), fibrocystic breasts, fatigue, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, hair loss, obesity, or high cholesterol then taking supplemental Iodoral can improve these diseases. These conditions have become an epidemic in the United States due to Iodine deficiency. My longevity medical practice is all about keeping my patients healthy so they can live not only a longer life but one with quality. In the last 20 years of my BioBalance® Health practice, I have seen a flood of new patients with conditions that are in p...2024-06-0622 minbiobalancehealth's podcastNews Flashes about Menopause, Metabolic Syndrome, Dementia and Cancer! See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog There is a lot of New Medical Information that is important for patients to make healthy decisions about their care or the care of their loved ones that you won’t hear about on the news. For new research to reach you, the public, a researcher or a drug company has to spend a great deal of money for the public relations people to push information into the light. I compiled the research I thought you might want to know about that has been discovered dur...2024-06-0621 minbiobalancehealth's podcastPMS – You are really not crazy! See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Last week one of my pellet patients asked me to see her daughter, even though I don’t see young women anymore since I began BioBalance Health for people over 40. I asked her why she couldn’t see her gynecologist and she told me that she was told that she had PMS and that was a condition that was treated by a psychiatrist! I have treated PMS successfully by replacing one hormone that is missing, Progesterone, two weeks a month, the same two weeks that women experience the sy...2024-06-0621 minbiobalancehealth's podcastVast Difference Between the Benefits of Different Types of Testosterone Replacement See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog The Problem: I see women and men every day who are deficient in their own production of testosterone because of age, testicular trauma, removal of their ovaries, chemotherapy, chronic illness, and medications. The cause of testosterone deficiency is as varied as the side effects and benefits of every different type of testosterone. This means that when you hear or read a headline like the one that came out last week: “Testosterone Treatment Fails to Offer Protection Against Fractures in Men with Hypogonadism, Research Indicates” You...2024-06-0623 minbiobalancehealth's podcastPainless Hair Restoration is Finally Here See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog T.E.D. a NEW painless high intensity ultrasound treatment that actually regrows 65% or more of your hair. It is the most effective treatment overall and really the most economic treatment with the least amount of time investment, no pain and best results. Unlike hair implants, you can’t tell you have had a treatment to make your “lost hair” grow again! The Problem of Hair Loss: Many of my patients (most of whom are over 40) complain that they have thinning or balding hair-loss...2024-06-0618 minbiobalancehealth's podcastSkinCare II: Treatment of aging skin –You can turn back the clock! See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Last time I talked about the ways you can keep your skin healthy and the products I have found that medical grade products are effective to keep skin looking young and healthy. My last Healthcast/Blog was about what you can do at home to improve your skin and look younger. This week we are going to talk about how to get the treatment you need to improve your skin if it is damaged and aging at the medical spa, and you may not have b...2024-06-0617 minbiobalancehealth's podcastBiobalance Skin—Dr Maupin Knows What Your Skin Needs! See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog You may be like I am, and you took your “young skin” for granted, because it had always looked good, healthy, and glowing. Sadly, the damage that causes wrinkles brown spots, age spots, and sagging jowls occurs years before the damage shows on your face! At age 40 I woke up, looked in the mirror and realized what I had been doing to my skin with baby oil and iodine plus 8 hours of sun a day, every summer, without sunscreen and moisturizer for the 30 years before and I reali...2024-06-0619 minbiobalancehealth's podcastDo You Feel Dismissed by Your Doctor? See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Every day in my office I hear horror stories about how my female patients are dismissed by the doctors they trusted to help them resolve their problems such as: · Hot Flashes and night sweats · Loss of libido · Rapid weight gain · Brain Fog · Insomnia · Arthritis associated with lack of hormones · Anxiety/Depression starting in their late 30s · New irritability · New Migraine headaches · Lack of motivation · Fatigue There doctors dismissed...2024-01-1514 minbiobalancehealth's podcastIf you have a big belly, you may be at risk for Alzheimer’s. See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog That is a strong statement, however I am confident in saying that belly fat can put you at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, because it is a fact supported by medical research. These studies reveal that obesity, especially abdominal obesity (Beer belly, Gut, “Dunlap’s disease”…..), increases the onset and rate of Alzheimer’s dementia! Another reason to change your lifestyle to benefit your longevity. Abdominal obesity can come from fat accumulation right underneath your skin (the fat you can pinch between 2 fingers) OR the fat that gro...2024-01-1522 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhy blood test of testosterone and free testosterone alone don’t reveal how you will respond to hormones. See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog At Bio Balance Health I order blood tests to evaluate my future patients before I even have my first appointment with them. I use them to find a baseline for an individual patient, and to see if hormones will help them with their symptoms. Blood tests work well for establishing a diagnosis but are not the only factor in determining an ideal dose of hormone that works for that patient. Symptoms and medical history supply most of the information for determining dosage as well as help me fin...2024-01-1520 minbiobalancehealth's podcastProtein is your body’s vital building block See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog When I tell my patients that they need a high protein diet, all they can think of is meat…but protein sources are found in many parts of our diet and eating a variety of protein sources is the key to health, we should find out what we should eat and why? Protein contains amino acids that are the major building blocks to make our muscles, skin, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments and bones. It also supplies the components of our skin, hair and nails, and car...2024-01-1517 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhat to Replace Simple Sugars with for Weight Loss and Building Muscle See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog There are almost as many different human metabolic variations as there are people in the world. Our genetics make us all unique in ways that vary the way we can lose weight or even gain weight. On the other hand, we all had to descend from humans who survived famine, lack of water and lack of nutrition sources, so in one way we are all the same…we have genes that helped us survive times that required of us the ability to maintain our weight even without eat...2024-01-1528 minbiobalancehealth's podcastust for Men: Prostate Cancer Can Be Diagnosed Without Blind Biopsies See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog This subject is for men who have had a high PSA and who have been advised that they need a prostate biopsy to determine if they have cancer. Many men go into the doctor for the biopsy necessary for diagnosis without expecting the “blind biopsy” procedure that is done through the rectum and is extremely painful when the doctor blindly takes pieces of the prostate…over and over again. Blindly, means he is randomly picking a place to biopsy without a real target….with the urologist biopsying everywhere...2024-01-1518 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhat is your Excuse for Refusing Hormone Replacement? 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 in the abdomen · Loss of Muscle Mass and strength · Irritability · Inability to remember names and places · Decreased ability to problem solve · Insomnia · Arthritis · Body pain2023-11-2717 minbiobalancehealth's podcastHeadlines About Menopause are Meant to Scare us. Don’t be Manipulated! 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. Some of us are devastated in every way by the multitude of symptoms that loss of our sex-hormones can create, on the other hand some women merely endure painful intercourse, hot flashes, headaches, and fatigue…or are told by their doctors that...2023-10-1720 minbiobalancehealth's podcastThe Progesterone IUD is a new prevention for Post-Menopausal Bleeding. 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 progesterone into the uterus to suppress the effects of estrogen on the endometrium, preventing post-menopausal bleeding and growth of fibroids. In the May 2023 Journal of OBG...2023-10-1717 minbiobalancehealth's podcastMen: Testosterone Gel, Patches, and Creams Don’t Work! Try T Pellets and Enjoy the Difference 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 and they did not get the results that they expected and needed, so they believe T Pellets won’t help them either. Another problem the other forms of T ca...2023-10-1723 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhy should you choose BioBalance® Health over the other medical practices and companies that provide hormone replacement? We offer so much more and with better results! 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, your medications and allergies, and based on your medial history they determine your treatment plan. This plan includes your pellet dose, treatment of other conditions or diseases that are out of control, a d...2023-09-1223 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhat exactly is your Body Mass Index number telling you about your health? 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 manage citizens, categorize them and even pay their salaries. The AMA has been using this as a measurement of body health for decades. As of July 2023, the AMA is rejecting this measurement of health and illness. Calculate your BM...2023-09-1223 minbiobalancehealth's podcastSemaglutides, weight loss, and the new weight loss medicines that everyone is talking about. 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 injection that causes loss of appetite as well as a feeling of fullness when only a fraction of volume of an American meal is eaten. It also works by limiting the hormone glucagon that dumps stored blood sugar int...2023-09-1223 minbiobalancehealth's podcastUnexpected Benefits of Testosterone and Estradiol Pellets in Women – Part II 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 just for men! If a woman has been reading for the last ten years, she may have picked up the fact that T brings back a sex drive and energy to women over 40, but mos...2023-09-1228 minbiobalancehealth's podcastUnexpected Beneficial results of Testosterone and Estradiol pellets in women 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 breaks open and bleeds with intercourse. My patient did not come to me to treat this problem, because she had been told by many other doctors t...2023-07-0618 minbiobalancehealth's podcastHealthcast 637 - If you have Sarcopenia it means you have poor muscle mass….but what does it mean to your health? 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 skeletal muscle, leaving her or him without enough muscle to move around normally. Sarcopenia is considered a side effect of aging….but it is really a...2023-06-1917 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhy does BioBalance Health® require a vaginal ultrasound before treating female patients? 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 information to determine if we need more tests before we see a new patient. The ultrasound of the pelvis gives us a visual picture of the ovaries and uterus of a woman. It is necessary to know i...2023-06-1927 minbiobalancehealth's podcastOvarian Cysts: Diagnosis and Treatment After Menopause 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 no uterine cancer before we treat a new patient. We also incidentally find ovarian masses or cysts when we are investigating pelvic pain or postmenopausal bleeding on our patients who...2023-06-1900 minbiobalancehealth's podcastSweating, Electrolytes, and how to Combat Dehydration. 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 get out of balance in normal daily life and put us at risk of illness and death if we do not replenish them orally along with rehydration with water. Our kidneys and hormones manage electrolyte concentrations as our...2023-06-1922 minbiobalancehealth's podcastPost Pellet Instructions and the Possible Side EffectsSee 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 side effects than any other hormone replacement, and we have a 95% success rate for resolving the symptoms of menopause and testosterone loss. Women’s lives are drastically impaired at menopause. BioBa...2023-06-1929 minbiobalancehealth's podcastFibroids are the most common cause of hysterectomy. But what are they? 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 most common tumor in women world-wide”. Although benign, uterine fibroids are associated with significant morbidity; they are the primary indication for hysterectomy, and a major source of gynecologic and reproductive dysfunction, ranging from...2023-04-1930 minbiobalancehealth's podcastA Noninvasive Alternative to a Surgical Facelift 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, but without the pain, surgery and downtime. Because of the EmFace, I have finally found what I was looking for so I bought it! It is c...2023-04-1912 minbiobalancehealth's podcastOrgasm - Where have you gone? 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 husband/partner, they now were repelled by the thought of it! Remember this was in the 1980s through 2002, and the only...2023-04-1922 minbiobalancehealth's podcastHow American Medicine Changes its Mind. 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/her livelihood and status in the society of medical doctors on the line. Any medical practice that was contrary to the dogma that had been taught to doctors in training was loo...2023-04-1921 minbiobalancehealth's podcastStatins Can Cause Diabetes 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 more diabetic medications. I have questioned the brilliance of the FDA letting this side effect through their testing process for years. More importantly, why are statins always prescribed for people who have diabetes, even if t...2023-04-1911 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhat is the Mediterranean Diet? —Really 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 Americans to follow this way of eating. It has been studied over and over again and it is still true that a Mediterranean diet is healthy for Americans. Doctors glibly tell patients you should eat a Mediterranean diet, but what re...2023-04-1914 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhat makes us heal after injury or surgery? 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 injury. I started with the instructions given to me by my surgeon, and the reason he gave asked me to prepare my body for healing prior to the su...2023-04-1916 minbiobalancehealth's podcastTestosterone Replacement Is the Secret Ingredient to Reverse AgingSee 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 articles that state the problem that aging, and they leave the reader with the feeling that nothing can be done to prevent these symptoms and diseases. The call “aging” an untreatable part of...2023-01-1224 minbiobalancehealth's podcaston’t stop medical treatment when it is working!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 back their symptoms, and they realize how much their pellets are doing for them! This is human nature, and often happens because when we feel better, we forget q...2023-01-1224 minbiobalancehealth's podcastHow to stimulate your immune systemSee 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, and a cancer recurrence, infections such as viruses or bacteria, and chronic fatigue is to turn the clock backwards to when you were young and your immune system’s “power center...2023-01-1222 minbiobalancehealth's podcastHow your breast and thyroid fight over iodine.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 ocean of any area of the globe that has been under the ocean or near an ocean currently. Iodine is present in most of the...2023-01-1221 minbiobalancehealth's podcastThe Coronary Artery Calcium Scan (CACS) and Heart DiseaseSee 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. Where there is calcium in the arteries there is plaque. To me this is a wonderful preventive medicine adjunct to the care I give my patients. I no longer have to...2022-11-1525 minbiobalancehealth's podcastMenopause Causes Insomnia and Sleep Apnea, if you don’t replace Testosterone and EstradiolSee 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 aches, irritability, and generally sabotages their quality of life. This subject has finally been studied in depth by the J or Endocrinology, and I want to share the information with you. Insomnia i...2022-11-1525 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhat your Dr. doesn’t tell you could save you thousands of dollars on medicationSee 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 government with the FDA are making the personal cost of medications higher while they create legislation to prevent the use of cheaper and more medications for each medical condition that you have. S...2022-11-1528 minbiobalancehealth's podcastLED Red Light Therapy is another path to healthy aging without diseaseSee 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 willing to sweat….but you can sit and work on your phone or computer for 20 minutes while you just sit there. Red Light Saun...2022-11-1520 minbiobalancehealth's podcastEstrogen replacement is now safe for breast cancer patients with ER+ breast cancerSee 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 for bladder and vaginal atrophic symptoms, and for the systemic form of estrogen would increase the risk of recurrence and death. Now the findings of the most recent study are that the replacement of estradiol in any for...2022-09-2213 minbiobalancehealth's podcastHow do Mitochondria get sick?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, which is usually a beneficial element in the body, to divide into two oxygen molecules, each with a charge. The oxidative stress makes O2 into two oxygen free radicals. The two free oxygen free radicals are harmful to the body, and the da...2022-09-2216 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhat are Mitochondria and What is their Importance to Our Health?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 what are they? Some examples of ads that use the word Mitochondria, reads “Take these Anti-oxidants every day and you will heal your mitochondria, and live longer…” “Your mitochondria are sick and need to be t...2022-09-2213 minbiobalancehealth's podcastMetformin® is a Miracle Drug for Aging and Obese PatientsSee 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 that I had to create a Healthcast and blog about the miracle drug, Metformin. Metformin has been around since 1994 while early in my pri...2022-09-2224 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhat BioBalance Health® Can do for you! Part IISee 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! The diseases of aging are also started when Testosterone is deficient, years before we actually are diagnosed with one of the diseases we associate with aging. I am listing the disea...2022-09-2222 minbiobalancehealth's podcastHow BioBalance Health® Reverses AgingSee 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 one hormone, TESTOSTERONE! We offer Replacement of bio-identical pellet Testosterone for men and women, and estradiol pellets for women combined with treatment of all other hormone deficiencies, and preventive tr...2022-09-2200 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhat is the optimal blood level for testosterone in women?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 taught me that each woman is an individual and the blood level that they need is specific to their metabolism and genetics. To determine the perfect leve...2022-07-2823 minbiobalancehealth's podcastDementia - How to avoid this end to your life.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 thought I would share them with you, and I will give her a copy of the blog that goes along with these suggestions.2022-07-2826 minbiobalancehealth's podcastThe Galleri® Cancer Early Detection TestSee 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 preventive care and be based on the belief that we should only react to a disease that is already established. Now we finally have one test that screens for 72% of the cancers that we can’t screen for...2022-07-2814 minbiobalancehealth's podcastTitles of Research Articles on Hormone Treatment Are Often MisleadingSee 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 with making assumptions about hormone therapy from, including estradiol, testosterone and progesterone. Research Translated into Lay Language Generalize All Hormones into One Big Group When reading anyth...2022-07-2822 minbiobalancehealth's podcastDoctor’s Appointments-How to Get What You NeedSee 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 get the treatment you need. Doctors are smart and the most intensively trained professionals in our society, but they are often not the best comm...2022-07-2822 minbiobalancehealth's podcastCan Food and Lifestyle Decrease Your Total and or Free Testosterone?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 have many “fillers” that are invisible to the person eating them. These fillers are often the culprit decreasing naturally produced testosterone levels and availa...2022-06-2020 minbiobalancehealth's podcastCan Food or Lifestyle Stimulate Your Testosterone Production?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 production of testosterone in both men and women. However, there are limitations on these nonmedical pathways to a higher testosterone level: 1. One is your age. If you are a w...2022-06-2020 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWomen, and Black Men and Women, Wait Longer at the ER for Diagnosis and Treatment of a Heart AttackSee 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, but it is present, and we must somehow get what we need and get around the attitudes of medical personnel. My best advice is to not act hysterical becaus...2022-06-0614 minbiobalancehealth's podcastPossible Issues Related to the Insertion of Testosterone Pellets in WomenSee 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 supply of Testosterone, without daily variation in blood levels, and have the fewest side effects of any type of testosterone replacement. However, nothing is perfect, and it is important to know what the side effects o...2022-05-3123 minbiobalancehealth's podcastPossible Early Complaints after the Initial Testosterone Pellet insertion – Part IISee 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 replacement. However, nothing is perfect, and it is important to know what the side effects of any treatment is. There is no medical treatment without any side effects. There is...2022-05-2430 minbiobalancehealth's podcastPossible Early Complaints after the Initial Testosterone Pellet insertion for WomenSee 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 supplying a steady supply of testosterone compared to other delivery forms of bioidentical testosterone. However, no medical treatment is perfect for everyone, and it is important to know what the side e...2022-05-2427 minbiobalancehealth's podcastSome Possible Side Effects of Testosterone Pellets for WomenSee 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. However, nothing is perfect, and it is important to know what the side effects of any treatment is. There is no medical treatment without any side effects. There is no me...2022-05-2421 minbiobalancehealth's podcastErythrocytosis from Testosterone Therapy Does Not Cause Heart Disease, Or StrokesSee 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 problems, or disease: For those men who have COPD, Chronic Bronchitis, or asthma, high counts are an adaptation that help you live with a compromised ability to oxygenate your bl...2022-05-0617 minbiobalancehealth's podcastDon’t Trust Your Lab’s Reference Ranges! – Part 2See 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. Blood panels are expensive and should have the information listed with the result that explains what circumstances make the test fall into the healthy and asymptomatic range. This is a problem with most large na...2022-05-0630 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhy does BioBalance change some of the normal lab value ranges from what is provided by the lab companySee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Dr Sullivan and I spend much of our visits with our patients explaining the meaning of each lab test that we order for our patients. We explain what a lab test is meant to evaluate, which lab tests measure their general health or their hormone status or tell us whether they may have side effects from hormone therapy. After our patients go through their lab test results, they realize that self-interpretation is literally impossible. We must also explain why we write in different reference ranges from those of...2022-05-0620 minbiobalancehealth's podcastDementia is delayed or prevented by replacing your estrogenSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ I have always told women who are menopausal that giving Estrogen to them after menopause lower’s their risk of Alzheimer’s, decreases their insulin resistance and helps decrease belly fat. There are many studies that prove that testosterone decreases the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and delays the timing of AD by 10 years. This is what I have always told women to reassure them about taking estrogen and testosterone after their ovaries stop making both hormones. It is a simple concept that the practice of medicine...2022-04-1316 minbiobalancehealth's podcastTestosterone is protective against Prostate CancerSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ I have been in the Pro-Testosterone after Prostate Cancer Team with Dr. A. Morgentaler ever since I read his book and heard him lecture at AMMG annual meeting 12 years ago. After that I read all of the studies that supported this opinion and now two new studies by Thomas E. Ahlering etal. Department of Urology, Irvine medical Center, Department of Medicine published in BJU International 2020. This study is a game changer in the treatment of Post Prostate Cancer patients and for those worried about getting prostate cancer i...2022-04-1317 minbiobalancehealth's podcastEstrogen Replacement Therapy Update - The TruthSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ I answer many questions about Estrogen Replacement Therapy ERT every day. Many of these questions are based on outdated information that women, and even doctors have not updated in the last 30 years. There has been a lot of research on ERT in the last 2 decades and women need to know the truth! Today I will address all the misinformation that is out there. First a few definitions of the lingo doctors use when talking about estrogen: ERT (estrogen replacement therapy) definition is replacing est...2022-03-2923 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhat is a VI Peel? Why does it do more than other peels to make you look younger?See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Call BioBalance Skin at 314-648-5710 to make an appointment There are hundreds of facial skin peels out there that provide one benefit each. The VI Peel is not just one peel with one effect, it has 4 different peels for different needs patients have. The first three peels are graded by how much damage you have, how thin your skin is and how much treatment you need. The fourth facial peel provides treatment for acne and acne scars. The FIRST secret to the V...2022-03-2114 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhy Do I Have to Take Supplements, and Diet and Exercise? I Just Want Hormones!See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Biobalance Health began in 2002 as a medical practice that provides the best, most effective delivery system for testosterone replacement for men and both T and Estradiol for women. This is still the foundation of our practice because hormone replacement is necessary or the other methods of staying healthy after 40 to actually work. I have seen thousands of patients who follow my individualized directions on testosterone and estradiol replacement, diet and supplementing their diet, weight loss, exercise, and lifestyle changes realize their goals of feeling and l...2022-03-1429 minbiobalancehealth's podcastAQUAGOLD®- A New Microinjection Facial Now Available at BioBalance Skin.See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Aquagold® is the newest type of microinjection process that utilizes hundreds of tiny gold needles to inject neurotoxins, filler and PRP right under the skin to stimulate the youthful turnover of facial skin cells and treat all the signs of aging. This treatment can be used successfully on the hands, neck and décolleté too. This process is essentially pain free after application of lidocaine gel and can be done much more quickly and with less trauma than micro-needling, with better outcomes. In addition to skin...2022-03-1412 minbiobalancehealth's podcastThymosin-alpha 1 – A natural killer of viruses and cancer cells.See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ If you ever wondered if there was something other than anti-cancer chemicals, quarantine or vaccines to help protect you from cancer and viral illness, there is a safe, inexpensive and effective medical treatment. Why haven’t you heard of this wonder drug? The FDA has blocked the US population from access to this immune stimulator in the middle of a pandemic! I can’t tell you why, except that it gave us a way to improve our immune status without other preventive treatments. It is not dangerous so you c...2022-02-2817 minbiobalancehealth's podcastGenetics behind why some people develop “Long-Haulers” after Covid, and other people do not.See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ (Quotes are from the 23 and me Blog. November 2021) Last week we talked about the research 23 and Me has done determining individual responses to the three Covid vaccine, based on the genetics of the HLA type of the individual. This week we will review their research on people who have gotten Covid infections and become Long-Haulers, those patients who develop long lasting illness and organ damage from getting the virus. We will look at the genetic characteristics of those patients who are at risk for Long...2022-02-2817 minbiobalancehealth's podcastThere is a genetic basis for being high risk for a reaction to vaccinesSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ In an article published in November of 2021 by the genetics company, “23 and Me”, new information was revealed that refutes the belief that the risks of getting and or dying from Covid 19 is equal for all humans--are a one size fits all proposition. Today I would like to relay the information that I have learned from research done by 23 and me over the last two years during the covid pandemic. This is not my finding, but that of this genetics company who carried out a one- and one-half year r...2022-02-1414 minbiobalancehealth's podcastBreast Cancer and Hormone Replacement TherapySee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ At BioBalance we have been treating women who have had ER positive breast cancer with Testosterone Pellets for 20 years Testosterone pellets improve their quality of life and actually decreases their risk of recurrence. This fact has been proven not only by research but by our experience. We believe that quality of life after cancer is very important and we not only believe that testosterone replacement is helpful to improve sex drive, muscle mass, skin texture, and other symptoms of aging, but also treats the symptoms of estrogen de...2022-02-1416 minbiobalancehealth's podcastGot Testosterone? - Now available on audiobookSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Kathy: Today we are welcoming back Brett Newcomb, the co-author of our book, Got Testosterone?, as well as co-author of our first book The Secret Female Hormone to announce the release of our third joint project, and our first audio book, Got Testosterone? Brett: Our audio book, Got Testosterone? has just been made available on Amazon books, Audible, and dozens of other audiobook access points. Our book Got Testosterone? is dedicated to men, to help them get through the aging process by...2022-01-3117 minbiobalancehealth's podcastElectromagnetic and Radio Frequency Combination Treatment That Builds Muscle and Melts FatSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ EMSculpt-® is a new treatment for sculpting your body into the body you want, and we have it at BioBalance Skin®! EmSculpt® is not for people who need to lose 100 lbs. all over, but for those of you who want to lose specific areas of fat to sculpt your body, without pain or surgery! This technology is the best there is and is very effective for building specific muscle groups and removing the fat from on top of them so you can see the actual individual muscles. 2022-01-3115 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWeight Loss Medications – The New Ones.See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Last week we reviewed the traditional weight loss medications that were used commonly before this very effective new class of weight loss drugs. Like most medications, drug companies’, researchers and doctors find amazing new drugs for a use that the drug was never intended for. An example of this is the drug Viagra. It was initially being presented to the FDA as a blood pressure and cardiac drug. It increased nitric oxide and that dilates arteries, which lowers blood pressure and eases the work on the heart. On the...2022-01-3119 minbiobalancehealth's podcastNew weight loss drugsSee all the Healthcast at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ During 2021 several new weight loss drugs have been approved by the FDA for weight loss. The Lancet is a very well-respected medical journal and in December of 2021 they-compared the available medications intended to help people lose fat and become healthy. Today I will discuss the weight loss medications that we use to assist our patients in weight loss and in our next Blog I will review the new, very effective weight loss drugs that have been released, and explain how doctors choose the right weight loss medication fo...2022-01-3121 minbiobalancehealth's podcastThere is hope for women with incontinenceSee all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ We made a discovery at the last AMMG anti-aging meeting in Dallas…we found a non-invasive way to treat urine loss in women! It does much more than just treat your urine loss and also vaginal laxity to improve your sexual response! The best part is that this treatment consists of 30 minutes of sitting on the Emsella machine 6 times over 3 weeks…no pain, no surgery, you don’t even have to take your clothes off! EMSELLA by the company BTL, is intended to provide...2022-01-3120 minbiobalancehealth's podcast“Oh Lord it’s hard to be humble….”See all the Healthcast at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ When I started practicing medicine, I realized that there were many medical problems and patient symptoms which had no treatment approved by the FDA. This was frustrating and I realized I had a talent for finding alternate treatments that were compounded by a compounding pharmacy for my patients. I followed research, basic science, and the advice of a compounding pharmacist to find these treatments, and miraculously they worked! Many of those treatments are now accepted by the mainstream medical establishment and even the FDA. That was over 35 yea...2022-01-1717 minbiobalancehealth's podcastDo you have brain fog? It might be from low thyroid.See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ One of the questions I ask my patients about when they first come in for Estradiol and Testosterone pellet replacement is whether they have trouble remembering names of things and places, or if they have difficulty remembering how to get somewhere or if they are just having difficulty thinking through problems that they haven’t had in the past. The reason I ask this to my new patients is primarily to find out if they have symptoms of low testosterone and low estrogen (in women). It...2022-01-1723 minbiobalancehealth's podcastThe importance of taking the correct fish oil.See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Not all inflammation is damaging, however long-term inflammation can damage healthy tissue, create disease, allergies, and heart disease. We know that a limited exposure to inflammation is needed to heal injuries, but exposure to inflammation for an extended period causes the changes that occur with autoimmune diseases, it breaks down the collagen of joints, and skin causing joint pain and sagging skin, arteriosclerosis and creates a hyper-allergic state like asthma and eczema. We test for inflammation with a blood test called Highly Sensitive CRP. We t...2022-01-1715 minbiobalancehealth's podcastThe 15 Reasons You Have Trouble Losing Weight Part Two, Reasons #8-15See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ #8 You drink alcohol while you are dieting. Alcohol is a toxin, not a food and slows or stops weight loss. When you drink, your liver prioritizes your alcohol and gets it out of your system first….then fat and other toxins that you need to metabolize. Drinking every day keeps you from processing and losing fat…so it keeps you overweight. When dieting..stop drinking! #9 You don’t drink water…just diet soda or tea or juice. Water consumption is necessary to mobilize and get fat out of...2022-01-1724 minbiobalancehealth's podcastThe 15 Reasons You Have Trouble Losing Weight #1-7See all the Healthcast at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ I have seen so many patients who come in for anti-aging Testosterone and estradiol who are 50-100% overweight and who do not follow my instructions for weight loss, that I am tired of talking to myself in my office! It is frustrating to try to help a patient who doesn’t really want to help themselves when it comes to denying oneself food or sugary drinks, or alcohol to lose weight……many of my patients just shut me out when it comes to diet and exercise. I thi...2022-01-1723 minbiobalancehealth's podcastHormone Replacement Is Linked to Lower Mortality in Women!See all the Healthcast at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ I always hear my patients say things like, “I don’t care if these pellets cause me to die early, I’m taking them anyway because they improve the quality of my life and relationships”….I have to stop and correct them!!! NO! replacement of estradiol and testosterone to women after they lose their own hormones makes you live longer!!! There are many research articles that prove that the replacement of hormones decrease the rate of dementia, osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, Parkinson’s, autoimmune diseases and poor immu...2021-11-2316 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhy you absolutely need to take oral Vitamin D3https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Vitamin D is not just a vitamin, as most people think, it is a HORMONE called Cholecalciferol that is required for general health, thick bones, for making muscle and your immune system, your brain function, and for protecting you from diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Vitamin D also acts to assist your body in absorbing calcium and zinc from your food and supplements. Without Vitamin D3 these vital minerals go through your body without absorption, and you just excrete them without being able to use them. The vitamin-hormone Vitamin D c...2021-11-2317 minbiobalancehealth's podcastWhy do you need a Colonoscopy? To make sure you don’t die of Colon Cancer!See all the Healthcast at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Colon Cancer is the third most common malignancy in the US and is something you don’t want to get and there are many ways to test you to see if you have pre-cancer, cancer or polyps which are also risks for cancer. They advertise these tests that you can do yourself by testing your own poop. My family physician daughter advises our patients that those tests do not adequately test for pre-cancer or colon cancer. They might find a cancer, but they will miss more than they...2021-11-0818 minbiobalancehealth's podcastOsteoporosis—Why do we look for new drugs when old hormones work well?See all the Healthcast at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog/ Osteoporosis is a side effect of aging and is one of the diseases that affects aging women more than aging men. Osteoporosis can lead to fractures of fragile bones, spinal stenosis, chronic back pain, and inability to walk or take care of ones-self. In the aging population it is one of the diseases that leads to women being admitted to nursing homes. The disease occurs in women more than men for two reasons. Bone thickness is stimulated by the hormones estradiol and testosterone, and testosterone b...2021-11-0121 min
Power of Purity | Helping Men to Honor God with their Sexual GiftPOP 186 - BioBalance Health with Dr. Kathy Maupin - Part 2As we've already identified on The Power of Purity Podcast... a very serious problem that many couples struggle with is when there's a significant disparity in the level of sexual desire between the two partners. What should a couple do when one person is highly sexed... and the other person has little to no sexual desire or appetite? One of the primary reasons people struggle with diminished sexual desire is because of what's happening organically within their physical body. If a person's hormone levels are out of balance it can and will radically effect their li...2019-08-2040 min
Power of Purity | Helping Men to Honor God with their Sexual GiftPOP 185 - BioBalance Health with Dr. Kathy Maupin - Part 1As we've already identified on The Power of Purity Podcast... a very serious problem that many couples struggle with is the significant disparity in the level of sexual desire that often exists between the two partners. What should a couple do when one person is highly sexed... and the other person has little to no sexual desire or appetite? One of the primary reasons people struggle with diminished sexual desire is because of what's happening organically within their physical body. If a person's hormone levels are out of balance it can and will radically effect th...2019-08-1337 min