Jan

28

Estrogen Has Many Crucial Functions In A Woman’s Body

January 28, 2010 | 1 Comment

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Estrogen Effects In The Body

Ever wonder what your body would go through without an adequate amounts of estrogen? Luckily for most women they may never know the effects of this but for a few hot flashes as they go from peri-menopause into menopause. A body properly nourished and balanced has mechanisms in place to help a woman adjust to the highs and lows of estrogen production through the many stages of her life. In fact, oriental females have no terms in their language for such things as hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. Check out my post on the topic of nutrition and hormones.

Estrogen’s Effects on the Brain and Nervous System

Estrogen stimulates the production of choline aminotransferase, an enzyme crucial to the prevention of Alzheimer’s. It has major roles in preserving memory and fine motor skills, improves reason and helps to develop new ideas.

A healthy mind is the product of healthy estrogen levels. The ability to concentrate, to maintain good mood and a healthy disposition for life are the results of adequate estrogen levels because estrogen is needed to produce neurotransmitters like serotonin that decrease depression, irritability, anxiety and pain sensitivity. Deep sound sleep throughout the night is improbable without adequate estrogen levels.

Estrogen’s Effects on Metabolism and Energy Production

Estrogen’s effects at regulating body temperature helps enzymes work efficiently to produce high energy and increase metabolism. You will get the most out of your nutrients to build strong bone, maintain muscle mass and to help prevent muscle damage.

Estrogen’s Effects on The Heart and Blood Vessels

Estrogen helps maintain the elasticity of your blood vessels. It acts like a calcium channel blocker (a type of blood pressure medication) to keep your arteries open and dilates the smaller arteries. It decreases the accumulation of plaque in arterial beds, lowers blood pressure, lowers bad cholesterol (LDL) levels and prevents their oxidation. It increases your good cholesterol (HDL) by 10-15% while decreasing platelet stickiness to prevents clots and strokes.It reduces homocysteine levels ( another known risk factor for heart disease).

Lipoprotein A, a fraction containing both cholesterol and protein fragments is a known risk factor for heart disease that is lowered by maintaining healthy levels of estrogen. The overall reduction seen in heart disease is around 40-50%.

Estrogen’s Effects on The Skin and Skin Structures

Estrogen maintains the amount of collagen in your skin, increases hydration and maintains thickness, softness while decreasing wrinkles. Estrogen supports healthy gums to reduce tooth loss. It decreases the chances of developing cataracts and macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness with aging.

Estrogen’s Other Beneficial Effects

Estrogen helps increase your sexual interest and decreases your risk of getting colon cancer. There are many benefits of estrogen on the body because there are receptors for estrogen basically everywhere including the heart, brain, muscle, bone, bladder, gut, uterus, ovaries, vagina, breast , eyes, heart, lungs and blood vessels.

Other Youthful Aging Center Pages:
Estrogen & Other Hormones in Turmoil- A Life Out of Balance
Menopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy
Food Allergies and Obesity
Hormones and Women’s Health
Estrogen and Menopause
Three Estrogens In Balance Throughout A Woman’s Life
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Jan

26

The Real Health Care Crisis in America

January 26, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Real Health Care Reform Issue

The real dilemma of health care is not in a lack of funds but in the maldistribution and disinformation the media feeds unwary Americans.

There are too many interests in medicine scrambling for a huge chunk of the medical funds. Only trickles will ever make their way into the lives of tax-paying citizens. The reason that many practitioners went to medical school in the first place has since been put on the back shelf- like a small secondary intention overshadowed by pharmaceutical giants as they cast their nets to bag the biggest share of the profits while watching this nation get sicker with each passing year.

Healing requires NON COMMITTED funds- no strings attached. You cannot fund unbiased education from the deep pockets of pharmaceutical giants paradoxically holding political power over how medicine should be taught and practiced in this country. If we could find generous competing pockets that will fund educating our community to create a sense of personal responsibility, that may begin the changes towards disease prevention. That may reverse the harm that has been done by the manipulations of monetized TV ads and drug promotions. That would be a new direction towards reversal of our so called, ‘Health Care Crisis’.

If you have not seen the movie ‘The Whole Truth’ I invite you to do so now and to learn more about the ways that you can prevent illness through good habits of healthy nutrition. It’s far time to take the initiative into our own hands, for our own lives and make health care reform happen from the inside out… it begins in the home, in the habits that we personally practice and in those that we teach our children to practice as we lead through example.

Here is the reprint from an email I received today which sparked these words…

Pictured is a young physician by the name of Dr. Starner Jones. His short two-paragraph letter to the White House accurately puts the blame on “Culture Crisis” instead of “Health Care Crisis”. Here’s the quick read:

Dear Mr. President:

During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.

Ours is a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one’s self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance

While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as “Medicaid”! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

“And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman’s health care?”

I contend that our nation’s “health care crisis” is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a “crisis of culture”, a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one’s self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that “I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me”.

Once you fix this “culture crisis” that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you’ll be amazed at how quickly our nation’s health care difficulties will disappear.

Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD

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Jan

22

Hormones and Nutrition On Your To Do List For 2010

January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Every baby boomer needs to be informed about the issues of hormones and nutrition. In fact, discovering your nutritional deficiencies and recovering your youthful levels of hormones for longevity with vitality should be at the top of your to-do lists in 2010… “Who doesn’t need some of that?”

Women are the most to feel and complain about the cycle of ‘change’ within their body, so let’s clarify the stages of female menopause

Menopause, pre-menopause, peri-menopause as well as post-menopause are the terms describing a woman’s transition from having regular periods to none at all. Pre-menopause refers to the years before any menstrual irregularities occur. Peri-menopause marks the interval in which your body begins its transition into menopause. Menopause is the permanent end of menstruation and fertility and refers to the time when periods have recently stopped for good. Post-menopause refers to the years after this transition and through the rest of a woman’s life.

But women are not the only ones to go through hormonal changes. Many times our male counterparts are also having signs and symptoms of dropping hormonal levels. That is known as Male Menopause, or Andropause. Some men will shrug it off as insignificant, either because they really don’t feel badly enough to come to the doctor, or just because they are stuck in the ‘don’t ask for directions’ mode throughout all of the important seasons of their lives. Oh well, guys will be guys. If they feel badly enough, they will find their way to words.

There is ONE little glandular system (the adrenal glands) that can make all of the difference in the world as to whether a woman (and a man, but mostly a woman) will feel the menopausal wrath from H*LL or slide through just as our Eastern Neighborly women do; in fact, Japan simply has NO words for the term HOT FLASHES nor any other subjective references relating to the discomforts our Western women complain about with intensity. Why is that? Do they stress less? Do they eat better? Is there less toxicity in their diets and environment?

YES, YES and YES…

In the US we are incredibly STRESSED. We eat horrifically and live with way too many chemicals that hurt our bodies (both men and women suffer from this problem). So we will spend some time reviewing these issues on this blog site and hope that you will come around, bookmark the blog or pick up the feed trail and get fed on the subject of graceful aging, vital aging, youthful aging so you can live a long and fruitful life in health.

Other Youthful Aging Center Pages:
Testosterone for Men
Basic Lab Testing To Assure Longevity and Youthful Aging
Food Allergies and Obesity
Physician Supervised hCG Weight Loss Program
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Jan

22

How To Use Natural (Bio Identical) Estrogen

January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Estradiol Molecule Natural estrogens is another term to refer to pharmaceutically compounded hormones using natural substances that mimic the exact molecular structure of the hormones that your body produces.

Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and natural hormone therapy are used interchangeably.

Bioidentical hormones work like a lock and key with your body’s enzyme system. Meaning that hormone A, will be converted by enzyme A into an intermediate compound, hormone B which will be worked upon by enzyme B, and successively until the whole process comes to its natural completion. Only enzyme A can unlock hormone A to transform into hormone B. This is the magic of using compounds that are IDENTICAL to what your body is designed to work with.

Our bodies actually produce three main forms of estrogen, namely estrone (E1), estradiol (E2) and estriol (E3). Compounding pharmacies produce these identical compounds to replace hormones that have been lost as the ovaries stop production during menopause and the peri-menopausal period.

Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy has become more popular since the release of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Study Results in 2002. WHI uncovered many of the health risks associated with the use of synthetic (non-identical compounds) hormones and horse derived hormones to relieve symptoms in menopausal females.

The Uses of Natural (Bio Identical) Hormones

Natural estrogens are used to alleviate symptoms of peri-menopause, menopause and post-menopause in women who have measurably low levels of these essential hormones. The symptoms may include a combination of the following: hot flashes, night sweats, irregular periods, mood swings, vaginal dryness, burning and itching.

Some women may also experiences episodes of dropping hormonal levels due to stress induced premature ovarian failure or surgery, to name a few.

Other reasons to use these natural, bio-identical hormones includes the prevention of osteoporosis, or ischemic heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

These natural, bio-identical hormones hormones maintain bladder and urinary tract function, they also work well to improve your lipid profile by increasing the levels of favorable fragments called HDL, while reducing levels of more unfavorable fragments called LDL.

Topical estrogen therapy has also been used for the reduction of wrinkles and to promote its skin softening effects. But it’s not all fun and good, there’s some risk to taking any kind of hormones for long term.

Possible Side Effects of Natural (Bio Identical) Hormones

The side effects of estrogen include nausea, upset stomach, bloating, headache, dizziness and lightheadedness which may be temporary and self limiting.

There are other reactions that you need to look out for including breakthrough bleeding, breast swelling, breast pain, fluid retention, weight gain, mood swings, depression, dropping libido, increased risk of gallbladder stones or malfunction, increased risk of thromboembolic disorder (blood clots) and increased risk of breast or uterine cancer.

The increased risk of breast cancer may be reduced by using the less harmful form, such as estriol and combine the strogen with progesterone as counterbalance.

Directions For The Safe Use of Natural (Bio Identical) Hormones

These hormones are available in many different forms, such as in capsules, topical creams and gels, suppositories, oral troches, implantable pellets and injections. Selecting the right choice for you may be a personal preference and is also a discussion to have with your prescribing physician who may have suggestions based on the type of benefits you may expect to derive from each individual preparation. If you have questions while you are on these products, consult with a physician or with the compounding pharmacist directly who is extremely knowledgeable on the proper use of these compounded hormones.

If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you have remembered but do not take it if it is almost time to take the next scheduled dose; that is, do not double dose because you forgot yesterday’s dosage today.

If you have any questions and would like to be tested for your hormone levels, I encourage you to contact our office and set up an appointment so we can look at your concerns more closely and establish a relationship that will help you feel your best. Visit the Youthful Aging Center online now.

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20

Weight Loss for 2010

January 20, 2010 | 1 Comment

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The hCG Weight Loss program is an easy way to lose up to one pound of body fat per day for incredibly contoured body changes. This program helps reset your basal metabolic rate back into a more rapid calorie burning rate.

The only set back?

It requires a willingness to use a tiny little needle and syringe to receive a daily injection of hCG and the discipline to consume a restricted very low calorie diet consisting of 500 total daily calories.

It”s not as bad as it sounds though because hCG makes those love handle fats available for the extra calories your body needs to function all day long.

The good news is that this is done in pulse fashion, 21 to 40 days max for each cycle. Then you are off of the program for six weeks and back on to pulse hCG again if you have over 50 pounds of weight to lose.

Our medical office is offering a special payment program to make this medically supervised natural weight loss program available to most. Check out our offer at Youthful Aging Center’s hCG Weight Loss Program page.

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12

Dr. Broda Barnes, MD and His Basal Body Temperature Testing for Low Thyroid Function

January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The thyroid gland may be one of the most elusive causes of many chronic health issues seen in my office.This gland is capable of mimicking over 65 major symptoms of illness and disorder in the human body- the proverbial mockingbird of medicine, wouldn’t you say?

Untreated, a weak thyroid affects the metabolism of every cell in your body and mocks your attempts at living out a long and healthy life span. A weak thyroid gland can even create errors in diagnosis and treatment. For instance, treating only your frequent upper respiratory illnesses with antibiotics while missing the underlying cause which may be hypothyroidism, can continue to weaken your body further leading to chronic fatigue, poor sense of well-being and may worsens your ability to think and even remember!

However, there is a very simple way of catching this little gland off guard to help you make the diagnosis more obvious for your doctor.

If we would all just remember to go back to basics once in awhile, and doctors are no exception. If most doctors would dare revisit their roots in medicine, more of them could learn to detect that which is hidden in plain sight. Sometimes, scientists just get so caught up in all of the neat gadgets, gizmos and flashy techy stuff modern technology seems to throws at us from every which way. Be we often find that it takes just a bit of common sense, some old fashioned discipline and even perhaps frank gall to gather up the courage to look back at history as we explore all that we have forgotten or have put aside for the sake of advancement. A sensible, and simplistic approach may be all that is needed here to land this elusive, moving target.

Enter the case of the deceptive thyroid disorder known as the low T3 syndrome. This is NOT your typical hypothyroidism, in fact this diagnosis is usually missed by 98% of all traditional physicians in their rapid scanning of lab tests looking only for those values that are obviously too far outside of the normal reference range.

But we are not talking here about a blatant thyroid shut down. No, we are looking at sub-optimal thyroid deficiencies in my practice. The exact kind of deficiency that causes so many vague symptoms of fatigue, sluggishness of thoughts and that overall yucky feeling I see so much each day in patients with less than optimal physiology. Most doctors are just too busy to mess with these suboptimal levels or less than ideal physiology states, choosing instead to wait for frank disease and a total shut down to start replacement therapies with medications that are way too expensive or worse that leave behind a trail of side effects requiring other medications to calm the wake.

So here’s the formula, it’s called the Barnes Basal Body Temperature Test, developed by Dr. Broda Barnes, MD. who wrote more medical research on the subject than you can imagine and certainly at a time when perhaps we may have all been coming out of training pants and diapers. But it still sets a precedent for clinical significance and potency of diagnosis. It goes like this:

Put an axillary (armpit) thermometer by your bedside at night and make sure that you shake it down to the lowest temperature reading. In the morning and before getting out of bed or moving around, put the thermometer under your armpit for 10 minutes and lie very, very still. Record your readings for at least 3 mornings in a row. The normal readings are 97.8 to 98.2. If yours are lower than this and you have the classic symptoms (which are outside of the scope of this article at the moment), then take all of this information to your doctor to get tested.

If you are a woman that still has menstrual cycles, make sure that you do this when you are not on your cycle as this will affect your temperatures. Do it immediately after your cycle or during the final days of your cycle like on days 3, 4 or 5. Don’t do it in the middle of your cycle or you will get the rising temperatures seen with ovulation which is one of the ways we use to teach women to check for ovulation and thus improve their chances of getting pregnant.

Hope this common sense approach helps. Let me know…

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8

Where Does Anxiety, Adrenal Fatigue and Hormonal Imbalance Fit Together?

January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Hormonal changes are often the trigger for many women suffering from anxiety disorder.

Young women come into puberty, mothers give birth to their babies, and mature women transition through the peri-menopausal period of life- all of these hormonal peaks and troughs set off cascades of hormonal reactions within the body.

In that sea of hormones, the effects of unresolved uncertainties around the changing roles (e.g. maturing from child to woman, taking on motherhood, becoming an independent woman past childbearing years) can make the sensation of these anxiety provoking situations overwhelmingly intolerable.

Anxiety can be sensed as a vague uneasy feeling, from fleeting ‘butterflies in your belly’ sensations to the extreme experience of severe and debilitating fear that leads to social phobias, agoraphobia (fear of leaving the security of the home) and to mental breakdowns from the draining effects this has on your adrenal glands.

The adrenal glands are the seat of a system created for handling and coping with stress. These small glands, like two sentinel walnuts sitting atop the kidneys are guardians that monitor the body’s needs for hormones created to cope with the challenges of everyday living, and for healing from illness and attacks upon the immune system.

Like a well oiled system, our bodies are built with interrelated parts relying one upon the other for optimal performance, nowhere is this better illustrated than within the adrenal glands where the seat of emotions interact with the workings of the immune system through a hormonal cascade referred to as the HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrena l) axis. Our bodies are awash in a sea of hormones, and just as the tides of seas respond to the cycles of the moon, so does our internal milieu rely on the oceans of our emotions. This HPA axis links our thoughts to the physical manifestation of what these thoughts create within us.

Anxiety is the well worn path of repetitive fearful thoughts allowed to take up residence within our bodies unchecked and unbalanced through good nutrition and rest for the recovery of our adrenal glands and an overly stressed out system.

Take the time to take care of yourself. Have rest, laugh, reward yourself for your accomplishments and don’t be so harsh to judge your life based on the unmet expectations of those that may have secondary gains as motive. This would truly be a recipe tipping the scales towards anxiety disorders and hormonal imbalances sure to overwhelm the craftsmanship of your perfectly designed system.

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5

Resonance & Frequency Healing Energies Applied

January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment

There is a very interesting concept in alternative medicine known as electromagnetic healing energy.

Through electromagnetic healing energies a body can achieve holistic healing by coming into resonance with the proper frequencies that bring about corrections for such healings to occur.

Have you experienced the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know!?: Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality, or read the book The Resonance in Residence: An Inner and Outer Quantum Journey (Science Edition)?

To apply the principles for personal healing does not require a Master’s Degree in Quantum Physics, nor must we spend the next four years and every waking moment scouring nebulous textbook in search of pearls we can apply to our lives and to the lives of those we love that are in need of healing.

A simpler book on the application of Quantum Energy as it applies to holistic healing is, Quantum Change Made Easy: Breakthroughs In Personal Transformation, Self-healing and Achieving the Best of Who You Are (Resonance Repatterning Books)

In this book you will learn simple methods for transforming unconscious patterns that are keeping you from the life you want to be living. If you want to learn how to apply the theories of resonance, coherence and quantum change for practical use in your everyday life this book can help. To borrow from the writers, they state that ‘you are an energy being living in an ocean of vibrating frequencies.’

In fact every experience in your life carries a frequency; your back pain, your work and home stress, your arguments, your depression- as well as your joys and your successes. All frequencies that engrave patterns within your brain setting a course for the rest of your life experiences to follow. In other words, these frequencies that you resonate with today (which make up the foundation of your unconscious patterns) will determine the life that you experience- for better or for worse.

With the right coaching or techniques, we are able to change the frequencies that our bodies resonate in and begin activating new patters that bring about joy, love, health and a higher purpose in our lives. This can be achieved using light and color, sounds, movement, breathing, fragrances and energy balancing.

Have ever noticed how some people, places or things resonate well with you while others are best avoided? You may have felt joy or special affinity with something like a song or work of art. These have played a part in creating moments that move and that inspire you. Yet, there are similar songs and art which have done nothing for you at all, or worse have turned you off completely. This is the workings of resonance taking place within you, silently and without knowledge of its existence, resonance directs your life at all times.

To experience the healings through sounds to fine tune your body, you might look into Sonopathy. The secret of Sonopathy’s success is the proprietary technology used to record the vibrations, or resonance, of natural substances like vitamins, minerals, enzymes, herbal extracts, omega-3, homeopathics and many others.

When you listen to their recordings, these vibrations enter your body and your nervous system through your ears. When the product’s resonance or song is played, it is suggested that the body starts to come into harmony with this vibration or music, and balance is then achieved. Your body then has practically no other choice but to start vibrating along with that “natural harmony”.

How can this help you to achieve health and balance? To answer this question I invite you to look into Sonopathy. Learn How Sonopathy Can Support Your Body:

To Fine-Tune Your Body For Health And To Feel Better

To Get More Nourishment From Your Foods

To Eliminate Toxins Form Your Body More Efficiently

To Lower the Impact of Stress on Your Life

To Be A Healthier, Happier And More Productive Person

Visit Sonopathy and experience sound healing today.
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