CATEGORY: Health and Wellness


Communicating With Your Body

Medical Professionals learn, observe, and use the body language of their patients to diagnose and treat what is really going on. Body language, medical history, and verbal communication combine to present a more accurate picture than any single element doctors[...]
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New Treatment for Endometriosis

Endometriosis is a common disease that affects women of childbearing age and is the most common reason for women to have their ovaries removed. Endometriosis is hard to describe, but it is implants of the same tissue that normally lines[...]
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New Treatments for PTSD

PTSD—Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a syndrome that causes a person to emotionally overreact to normal daily stresses, and to relive the feeling of terror that they felt when they experienced the traumatic experience that left them with this disorder.[...]
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Symptoms of PTSD

PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) was recognized as a diagnosis in 1980. In 35 years it has undergone several revisions and changes in what constitutes the condition, the most recent being in 2013 with the outcome being a recognized diagnosis[...]
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5 Strategies for Surviving the Emergency Room

Because of your ER doctor’s difficult work environment, it is important for you, the patient, to know what conditions should make you go to the emergency room, as well as how to navigate the process and come out on the[...]
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Surviving the Emergency Room

Defining what doctors consider an “Emergency” is very important in an era when patients use Emergency Rooms like an all night family practice office. In medical language an “emergency” consists of a medical problem that is life-threatening within the next[...]
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Testosterone and men who have ED

What Factors Affect the Dose and Effectiveness of Testosterone Pellets? But what if a man is a candidate for testosterone pellets, and the testosterone supplementation still does not resolve ED, but other symptoms get better? The following scenarios can illustrate[...]
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Metformin – Old Drug with New Tricks

What prevents Cancer? Serendipity is such a great thing! Medicines are studied and researched and submitted to the FDA for approval. Scientists give the FDA all their test results and build a case for a specific use for a drug.[...]
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The Way to a Man’s (and Woman’s ) Health is Through the Stomach!

Mood, immunity, allergies, obesity are only a few of the bodily functions orchestrated by our GI tract! Medical research (less than 5 years old), has been casting a whole new light on the role of the lowly intestines which we[...]
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Losing your life to save the cost of a Starbucks a day

Losing your life to save the cost of a Starbucks a day. So many times I find myself talking to one of my patients who hadn’t come to see me for quite a while. When I ask them why they[...]
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