CATEGORY: Weight Loss
Other Causes of Obesity in America
How many of your eating habits are repetitions of behavior, vs conscious decisions? This week we are continuing our discussions regarding obesity in Europe and America. We will be focusing on the bad habits that people develop, either through innate[...]
Science and Obesity and You
What science does and does not know about obesity. I believe that you have to find the cause or causes of the obesity and treat each issue. There may be many issues that all need attention to conquer obesity in[...]
Obesity in America and Obesity in Europe
How does the eating habits in Spain, Italy, and Sicily compare to typical eating habits in America? We spent some weeks in Europe recently. We were in Spain, Italy, and Sicily. We observed that we rarely saw obese natives. The[...]
How Dr. Maupin Treats Thyroid Disease
Thyroid function is absolutely necessary to be well and age in a healthy manner. In the face of how mainstream medicine has set the system to NOT diagnose hypothyroidism, I am criticized daily for diagnosing hypothyroidism in my office for[...]
Why Most Doctors Get Thyroid Treatment Wrong
Why don’t all doctors take the same approach when diagnosing and treating thyroid issues? #1 Doctors Look at the Wrong Hormone to Determine Thyroid Activity Thyroid replacement is a difficult process primarily because doctors have been trained for decades to[...]
Skinny Fat – Are You Losing Your Mind?
Do you fear you will lose your capacity to think quickly, and to remember the facts that have been important to you personally and professionally? One of my greatest fears is that as I age I will lose my capacity[...]
Women, Testosterone Pellets, and Good Health
How can hormone replacement for women positively impact their health? Women are concerned when they think about testosterone pellets and whether or not these pellets will lead to weight gain for them. They think this because they have heard somewhere[...]
Testosterone Replacement After Having Prostate Cancer
If a man obtains testosterone replacement therapy, does it increase their likelihood to develop Prostate Cancer? For many years doctors were trained and believed that if a man obtained testosterone replacement therapy, it would lead to an increase in the[...]
Low Dose Naltrexone and Depression
How to recognize different types of depression, and how medicine addresses these deficiencies. This may seem like a doctor problem and not a patient problem, but I think understanding the key differences in types of depression can guide patients to[...]
The Four Types of Depression
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter chemical in the brain. There are many neurotransmitters, and serotonin is the one we recognize as primarily impacting depression in your brain and body. Anti-depressants called SSRI’s, when they came out, were miracle drugs. They replaced[...]