Men’s Health

Testosterone is Essential for Optimal Health

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by import in Blog, Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Obesity, Type-2 Diabetes, Youthful Aging

A realization is dawning in clinical medicine that testosterone has a prominent role in maintaining good health. That is not to say that more is always better. Just like other readily understood areas of human existence, there is an optimum range, below and above which can be detrimental. Typically people enjoy environmental temperatures between 40 degrees and 90 degrees. Temperatures above and below this range cause some discomfort, injury and eventual death. Even within this “normal” range there exists a smaller range representing the optimal temperature. Read the rest of this entry »

Smokers More Likely to Suffer Cognitive Decline

Posted on 11. Jul, 2009 by import in Cancer, Dementia, Men's Health, Women's Health, Youthful Aging

Dangers From Smoking Continue to Mount

Smoking is a very expensive habit, both financially and health-wise. It has been widely recognized as the greatest individual risk for heart disease, stroke, emphysema, chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) and lung cancer. It has also been strongly implicated in early erectile dysfunction (ED) and breast cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

Fish Oil and Heart Health

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by import in Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Uncategorized, Women's Health, Youthful Aging

Superior to Statins in Heart Failure Patients

Omega-3 fish oil supplements should be on everyone’s supplement list. Fish oil reduces silent inflammation, helps reduce blood pressure and stabilizes arterial plaque against rupture.

Published in the journal Lancet, August 2008, reaserchers from the Italian GISSI trial compared mortality and morbidity among 7000 patients randomized to take either placebo or fish oil. Read the rest of this entry »

Lifestyle Management Reduces Body Fat Distribution

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by import in Exercise, Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Obesity, Women's Health, Youthful Aging

Supervised Exercise and Nutrition Counseling was Key

Results of the SYNERGIE trial reported at the 77th European Athersclerosis Society Congress in April 2008, showed the risk factor profile of high-risk, abdominally obese men with features of the metabolic syndrome was improved by regular consultation with a dietician and kinesiologist (exercise specialist). Read the rest of this entry »

Larger Waist, Smaller Lifespan

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by import in Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Obesity, Women's Health, Youthful Aging

pot belly Abdominal Girth More Significant than BMI

A report this year in the New England Journal of Medicine confirmed earlier findings that a higher body mass index (BMI) is significantly associated with mortaility. More importantly, a large European study found that the risk of premature death increased as waist circumference increased, even among individuals with identical BMI. Read the rest of this entry »

Facts about Fructose

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by import in Men's Health, Nutrition, Obesity, Women's Health

Fructose is the predominant sugar in fruit – an apple, for instance, is roughly 6% fructose, 4% sucrose and 1% glucose by weight – was considered healthy because it did not elevate blood sugar and had a low glycemic index. Although fructose enters the blood stream slowly and has little effect on bloodsugar, it can become problematic in large doses. Read the rest of this entry »

How Much Vitamin D is Enough?

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by import in Cancer, Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Osteoporosis, Vitamin D, Women's Health, Youthful Aging

sunflower Most Americans are vitamin D deficient due to inadequate dietary intake and insufficient sun exposure (UVB rays). The predominant dietary form of vitamin D is D2. That is also the form typically found in OTC vitamin supplements. The preferred, and more potent, form is vitamin D3 which is synthesized in the skin from sun exposure. Read the rest of this entry »

Healthy Eating Helps Reduces Chronic disease

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by import in Cancer, Heart Disease, Men's Health, Nutrition, Women's Health, Youthful Aging

Modern day nutritional habits are the cause of the explosion in heart disease, type-2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome. High calorie, high fat, high sugar and processed foods are to blame. Calorie deprivation is not sustainable and only leads to chronic hunger and failure of the diet. It is the quality of the calories consumed: highly refined, easily digestible carbohydrates that triggers the excess weight gain and obesity.

The link between refined carbohydrates and disease was not understood for many years. Refined sugar and white flour were treated as equivalent to raw fruits, vegetables and whole grain flour. It is now known that ingesting refined carbohydrates leads to insulin resistance, and is the culprit in the development of the metabolic syndrome: increased insulin, increased triglycerides, high LDL and low HDL, increased blood sugar, high blod pressure, and abdominal obesity. Read the rest of this entry »

Importance of Testosterone for Healthy Aging in Men

Posted on 12. Apr, 2009 by import in Bioidentical hormones, Heart Disease, Men's Health, Youthful Aging

Testosterone is the primary sex hormone (androgen or steroid hormone) produced by the testes and it plays an essential role in the health men. Beyond determining the male sex characteristics, testosterone is a determinant of muscle strength, bone mass, libido, potency, and sperm production, or spermatogenesis. Read the rest of this entry »

Eat More and Lose Weight?

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by import in Men's Health, Nutrition, Obesity, Women's Health, Youthful Aging

Oh yeah, sign me up!!!

Sounds too good to be true, but this is a case when it is not, and may have the added benefit of reducing your risk for type 2 diabetes. Dietary energy density may be a key to explaining this apparent paradox. Read the rest of this entry »

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