BioBalance Healthcast Blog/Videos
New Treatments for PTSD
October 13, 2015
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.[...]
Symptoms of PTSD
October 7, 2015
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[...]
5 Strategies for Surviving the Emergency Room
September 29, 2015
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[...]
Surviving the Emergency Room
September 22, 2015
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[...]
When Testosterone Is Not the Answer to ED
September 15, 2015
Testosterone Pellets Are Not the Answer for All Men Who Have Symptoms of Low Testosterone. Most men who send me their medical history and blood work for evaluation to determine whether they are candidates for testosterone pellets, usually think that[...]
Testosterone and men who have ED
September 7, 2015
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[...]
Obesity And Cancer
September 1, 2015
We have finally found a medication to treat patients that are hungry all the time! Scientists are learning more and more about the interaction of our hormones and diseases such as diabetes Type 2, and Cancer, and Obesity. A recent[...]
Metformin – Old Drug with New Tricks
August 25, 2015
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.[...]
The Way to a Man’s (and Woman’s ) Health is Through the Stomach!
August 17, 2015
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[...]
Losing your life to save the cost of a Starbucks a day
August 11, 2015
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[...]