Hormones In The News

January 2009 - Dr. Jennifer Landa of BodyLogicMD Orlando commends Oprah for doing the research herself and finding bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and using the forum of her show, website and magazine to publicize a very important health issue, one that affects every woman at some time in her life. The questions Oprah has asked and the answers that are provided on her show and in the resources that she has provided are answers that so many women are seeking every day...

January 2009 - BodyLogicMD’s Chief Medical Officer stated she “was very pleased by the balanced show Oprah did on bioidentical hormone therapy.” Oprah echoed many of our patient’s sentiments of some of the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause as “having the life force sucked out of you” and feeling “flat.” Much like we tell our patients, Oprah felt that it was important for women [and men] to take control of their health and “start a conversation about what their various options were.”...

January 2009 - Suzanne Somers has come a long way – and she looks amazing! Good thing for us she is willing to share her secrets to aging gracefully and beautifully. Especially exciting is her recommendation in her latest books of BodyLogicMD as an expert source in bioidentical hormone therapy. Not only do her books Ageless and Breakthrough let us in on some of the best anti-aging techniques and hints for overall wellness, but we also get a great resource!

January 2009 -How great is it that aging isn’t about getting old anymore?! Thanks to Oprah, her show, her website and her magazine, we’ve been able to get some straight talk about what aging really means – and what we can do about it. With all the confusion surrounding the options out there for women going through perimenopause and menopause (and men in andropause), it is certainly a relief to get a balanced look at all of our choices.

December 2008 - The economic meltdown has dominated the headlines for months, was the most important issue in the U.S. Presidential election, and continues to spawn increasingly dire reports and predictions as we head into the New Year. Yet, while the financial crisis has proven disastrous for nearly every sector of the economy, its effect on the field of Age Management Medicine is not entirely clear. We have gathered a cross section of media reports and surveyed leaders in this medical field ...

July 2008 - We live in a quick-fix society. From weight-loss strategies to fast-food options, if we can't get it now, it's not worth waiting for. Forget anything that requires work and perseverance. Even energy is being packaged as a quick-hit option. Need an afternoon pick-me-up? You can literally buy energy anywhere - from the vending machine, coffee shop, or those five-hour shots at the gas station along the highway...

June 2008 - The U.K.'s Telegraph (6/17, Highfield) reported that findings presented during the meeting of the Endocrine Society add "to the scientific evidence" that links testosterone deficiency "with reduced life expectancy, or increased death from all causes over time.'"German researchers led by Robin Haring, Ph.D., discovered that "[o]verall, men with low testosterone levels had more than 2.5 times greater risk of dying during the next 10 years...

April 2008 - As a mature woman – at least chronologically – I don't spend a lot of time thinking or worrying about menopause. That rite of womanhood doesn't seem to carry the emotional currents of some of the other stages of female growth, like the early puberty angst of wondering whether your chest will ever grow, or the impending ticking of our biological clock winding down in our late 30s. While all women will experience menopause, no two women will experience it exactly in the same way. More than a rite of passage, it's more akin to a journey and a potentially bumpy one at that...

April 2008 - For thousands of years, magicians, alchemists, even a few fringe medical practitioners have fueled an unbounded optimism that we can blunt the ravages of time, stay younger for longer, maybe even defeat death itself. Their pitches have usually hinged on some drug, food or device — everything from electricity to yogurt to surgically installing the gonads of animals into our own bodies — that will slow or reverse the aging process. Every decade or so, “anti-aging” promoters grasp onto news coming out of...

April 2008 - Clinicians should consider the possibility of androgen deficiency in men who present with erectile dysfunction (ED), researchers say.Almost half of 2794 men presenting with ED had serum testosterone levels <400 ng/dl - a cut-off used in androgen deficiency definitions - and the incidence increased with age, the team reports. ED and androgen deficiency in aging men are two separate clinical entities that often overlap...