In the early 1900s, doctors often considered depression to be a symptom of low thyroid levels. We now understand that depression is about more than low thyroid, but still, they were onto something. Today many doctors are again turning to thyroid medication for their patients with depression. The long list of symptoms that can be [...]
Q: My husband and I have both recently retired and we’re trying to get our sex life going again, but I am terribly sensitive and dry “down there.” I’ve tried some lubricants but it still hurts. There’s a history of breast cancer in my family so I want to be careful about hormones and was [...]
Q: I utilize progesterone therapy in my chiropractic/acupuncture practice but cannot find information about the use of it postnatal. I have a patient who had great success with eliminating fibroids with progesterone use and quit mid-pregnancy, which allowed the fibroids to return. I want to start her on the therapy again, but want to confirm [...]
Dr. Jen’s Power Plan to Fire Up Your Libido
by Jennifer Landa, M.D. and Virginia Hopkins
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, my latest book has hit the shelves. Co-authored with Jennifer Landa, M.D., The Sex Drive Solution for Women: Dr. Jen’s Power Plan to Fire Up Your Libido is a no-nonsense, information-packed guide [...]
It’s been fairly well established that women who suffer from premenstrual or catamenial epilepsy improve when they use progesterone, but mainstream medicine never got on board with the treatment. Now a gold standard, NIH-sponsored multicenter randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled phase III clinical trial should finally make progesterone a front line treatment for catamenial seizures.
Andrew Herzog M.D., [...]
Is it possible that as much as 35% of invasive breast cancers will go away on their own if left alone? This is the conclusion of Norwegian researcher Dr. Per-Henrik Zahl, who analyzed data from more than 600,000 Swedish women, half of whom had regular mammogram screening and half who did not. Dr. Zahl suggests [...]
If you’re over the age of 55, chances are you’ve had a Rick Perry-style brain freeze or some other variation on the theme, such as forgetting why you just walked from the kitchen to the living room, or the name of your daughter’s mother-in-law. Most likely there’s no need to go for an Alzheimers’ test [...]
Editorial/Opinion – According to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), autism may begin in the womb with an overgrowth of brain cells. Scientists at UC San Diego examined the brains of six boys with autism who had died and compared them with non-autistic boys of the same age. They [...]
Evamist® is an estrogen spray approved by the FDA to treat hot flashes. There are at least two good reasons to avoid it.
1) Although advertised as a low dose spray, Evamist delivers 1.53 mg of estradiol per spray, which is a very high dose.
Why does Big Pharma persist in their belief that dosing should be [...]
Q: Thank you so much for your work. I am trying to sort out this hormone issue, and it’s not easy! I read on one site that bioidentical hormones may be either from a natural source or synthetically made, and that it’s more about the molecule being identical to the human molecule that our body [...]
