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Estrogen is not just a single hormone, but rather a group of related hormones produced by your body. The three most important of this group are Estrone, Estradiol and Estriol. Estrogen is manufactured primary in the ovaries, but can also be made in fat cells, muscles cell and the skin. The main function of estrogen in women is to regulate menstrual cycles, promote the growth of female development during puberty and to ensure fetal survival. Let’s look more closely at each of these. Read more »

A better option to PremPro
Q & A | Pharmacist
Article Last Updated:10/22/2006 03:12:08 PM MDT

Q: I’m scared because I take PremPro and I’ve read bad things about that drug. I’ve talked to my endocrinologist, and now I’m terribly confused. He says my medication is just like my hormone, progesterone, but from what I’ve learned it’s not and it’s dangerous. You are the one I trust, Suzy. Is he right?

- A.P., Los Angeles,

Calif.

A: No, he’s completely wrong. The substance in PremPro is not progesterone; it’s an Read more »

Study 1
“This nested case-control study was based on the cohort of men who donated blood to the Janus serum bank at Oslo University Hospital between 1973 and 1994. Cancer incidence was ascertained through linkage with the Norwegian Cancer Registry. The study included sera from 59 men who developed prostate cancer subsequent to blood donation and 180 men who were Read more »

WebMD Medical News
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
on Wednesday, July 05, 2006
July 5, 2006 — Older men with common health problems such as obesityobesity, diabetesdiabetes, and high blood pressure may be twice as likely as other men their age to have low testosterone levels, according to a new study. Read more »

HCG is provided as a glycoprotein powder to be diluted with water, and acts in the body like luteinizing hormone (LH), stimulating the testes to produce testosterone even when natural LH is not present or is deficient. It therefore is useful for maintaining testosterone production and testicle size during testosterone replacement therapy(TRT). Use of this drug in the taper is rather counterproductive, since the resulting increased testosterone production is itself inhibitory to the hypothalamus and pituitary, delaying recovery. Thus, if this drug is used, it is preferably used during the (TRT) cycle itself. A daily amount of 500 IU is generally sufficient, and in my opinion usage should not exceed 1000 IU per day.

Daily administration is superior to less frequent administration.

Doses over 1000 IU are noted for their tendency to cause or aggravate gynecomastia, and also act to desensitize the testicles to LH.

HCG may be injected intramuscularly, subcutaneously, or in a shallow injection about 1/4″ deep with the needle going straight in. A 29 gauge insulin needle is recommended. Injection speed should be slow.

Some HCG products are diluted 5000 or even 10,000 IU per mL, while others are diluted 1000 IU per mL. So far as I know there is no need to make the preparation so dilute. Once mixed, the preparation should be refrigerated and used within a few weeks. The substance is also somewhat temperature sensitive before mixing and should not be exposed to excessive heat.

HCG can also useful for returning testosterone to normal levels should levels be low post (TRT), or, with care, to increase levels from normal to high normal. Titration of the dose, by measuring Testosterone levels and then adjusting the HCG dose accordingly, is recommended for long term use. An aromotase inhibitor like anastrozole is recommended to prevent any conversion to estrogen.

April 12, 2006
The results of a pooled analysis of 1,760 women confirmed that having higher levels of the vitamin D metabolite serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D is associated with a lower risk of breast cancer. The finding was reported at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research held April 1-5, 2006 in Washington DC. Read more »

Obese men often experience a sharp decline in testosterone levels while obese girls show much higher levels of the sex hormone than girls of normal weight, according to scientific research released on Monday. Read more »

A New, Independent Risk Factor for Heart Disease

Conventional doctors have long recognized obesity, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and diabetes as major risk factors for a heart attack. A startling report reveals a new, independent risk factor that markedly affects the severity of coronary artery disease.
Angina and heart attacks often manifest when the major coronary arteries become occluded with unstable atherosclerotic plaque. In a newly published study, doctors measured the degree of coronary artery disease using angiographies and then carefully evaluated all of the known risk factors that could explain the blocked coronary arteries.
The surprising finding from this new study is that blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, and body mass index may not be the major predictors of degree of coronary artery blockage. Instead, the three independent risk factors that predicted the severity of coronary artery occlusion were age, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and free testosterone. In this instance, “independent risk factor” means that if you did everything else recommended to protect your heart, you would still be at greater risk for serious coronary artery blockage if you had low testosterone and low HDL. Read more »

A new animal study has found that vitamin K may prevent calcification of the arteries.
Arterial calcification is generally regarded as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Matrix Gla-protein (MGP) is a potent inhibitor of arterial calcification and its activity depends on vitamin K2. In rats, inactivation of MGP by treatment with the vitamin K-antagonist warfarin leads to rapid calcification of the arteries. Consequently, researchers decided to investigate whether a vitamin-K-rich diet can regress arterial calcification. Read more »

Science Daily — Researchers at the University of Southern California have discovered a direct link between loss of testosterone and the development of an Alzheimer’s-like disease in mice. They also discovered that testosterone treatment slows progression of the disease. Read more »

Conventional doctors have long recognized obesity, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and diabetes as major risk factors for a heart attack. A startling report reveals a new, independent risk factor that markedly affects the severity of coronary artery disease.

Angina and heart attacks often manifest when the major coronary arteries become occluded with unstable atherosclerotic plaque. In a newly published study, doctors Read more »

A new study has found that omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil decrease feelings of anxiety in substance abusers, adding to the mounting evidence that fish-oil-derived fatty acids can improve well-being.
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H. Gerster
Vitamin Research Department, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Lycopene is one of the major carotenoids in Western diets and is found almost exclusively in tomatoes and tomato products. It accounts for about 50% of carotenoids in human serum. Among the common dietary carotenoids lycopene has the highest singlet oxygen Read more »

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Men with testosterone levels in the low-normal range are much more likely to have diabetes than those with higher levels, whether or not they are obese, researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care. Read more »

Iodine in combination with the amino acid tyrosine is manufactured into the thyroid hormone thyroxin. Iodine intake is grossly insufficient, and since Americans have begun restricting their salt intake at the advice of their physicians, deficiency has become epidemic. Read more »

Newsworthy—but traditional medicine lags far behind medical literature

According to a February 20th Wall Street Journal article by Tara Parker-Pope, studies by French researchers suggest risks associated with menopause hormones are “dramatically reduced when the drugs are absorbed through the skin”—not in pills. Read more »

About Andropause

The existence of andropause is recognised by some of the best researchers in medical science, including the international medical community.
In fact, a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report, states that “male androgens progressively decline with age.” The study tested androgen levels at age 25 and by age 70, androgen levels were only 10 percent of what they were during youth. Read more »

A new study by University of Rochester researchers has linked exposure to a common chemical found in plastics and soaps to insulin resistance and obesity in men.
Previous studies have found that exposure to phthalates—found in cosmetics, shampoos, soaps, lotions, lubricants, paint, pesticides, plastics and in the coating of some timed-release medicines—may be associated with reproductive problems. More than 75 percent of the United States population is thought to have measurable levels of several phthalates in their urine. Read more »