CATEGORY: Health and Wellness
What is an Immunization and How do they Work?
Dr. Maupin explains immunizations from a scientific medical perspective. The last year and a half, many new words have been introduced into common daily conversations of Americans, and one of these words is immunization, a word that was previously limited[...]
Why are you getting belly fat?
No one escapes the aging process and the deposition of belly fat, without replacing testosterone. The most frequent question asked by my patients, both women and men, the first time they see me is, “Why is my belly getting bigger?[...]
Our Most Frequent Questions…about Uterine bleeding while on Estradiol Pellets
“I am post-Menopausal, so why do I have uterine bleeding?” Q: Why do I have to take Progesterone every night? Post-menopausal bleeding is one of the side effects of any estrogen replacement therapy, including estradiol pellets. We can prevent break-through[...]
Our Most Frequent Questions…about laboratory test
"Why do I need so many lab test at BioBalance Health?" Dr. Maupin answers this question and more. Q: Why do I need so many tests to replace my testosterone and or estradiol with pellets? We order these tests for[...]
Low Testosterone Found to Result in More Severe Covid Infections
Washington University study shows men who have low Testosterone levels are associated with severe Covid infections. Welcome to the BioBalance Healthcast, I’m Dr. Kathy Maupin and my partner Dr. Rachel Sullivan, joins me today to discuss a new research finding[...]
Two New Weight Loss Drugs – Saxenda® and Ozempic®
Dr. Maupin discusses two weight loss drugs that can help you feel full. Saxenda®: is a GLP-1 agonist that normalizes blood sugar and causes decrease in appetite as well as slower emptying of the stomach and which makes people feel[...]
What Genetic Mutation Does 1/3 of America have? MTHFR! What is that?
MTHFR mutation, discovered by doing a Homocysteine blood level, could prevent infertility and strokes, pulmonary emboli, heart attacks. There is a silent and UNTREATED, UNTESTED mutation than affects 1/3 of Americans, that causes pulmonary emboli, heart attacks and strokes, and[...]
What is your real age?
How do we measure your Health Age, and is this more important than your chronological age? If you always thought of your age as the number of years you have lived, you may realize that the number of years you[...]
Why Does Dr. Maupin think Making Muscle is Key to Anti-Aging?
The benefit of exercise is the most well documented anti-aging activity and treatment to reverse aging available. When you come to my office, I don’t just weigh you, but I do a full body composition with the InBody machine before[...]
The Thyroid Myth that Doctors Still Believe
The thyroid gland is the most important gland to human life. I have had hypothyroidism since I was 23, so I have had an interest in the thyroid gland, how it works and what treatments work and which ones[...]