does the hpv vaccine lead to infertility?
HPV VACCINE & INFERTILITY: IS THERE A CORRELATION? Conspiracy theories; love em or hate em they’re everywhere. An hour on YouTube and you’ll learn that there are significant numbers of people who believe the moon landing and holocaust never happened, the earth is flat, Russians and not frustrated Americans elected Donald Trump, and the Illuminati, […]
everyone has heard about menopause, but what about its male counterpart, andropause?
ANDROPAUSE: WHAT TO DO ABOUT MALE MENOPAUSE “A progressive decrease in androgen production is common in aging men. In men older than middle age, total testosterone levels may be misleading because of an increase in sex hormone-binding globulin levels (SHBG). The most prominent endocrinological alterations with aging are related to the sex steroids, but others, […]
american sperm counts are less than half of what they were forty years ago
AMERICAN MALES ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY FEMINIZED: SPERM COUNTS HIT ROCK BOTTOM One of the journals under the blanket of “Oxford Academic” (Human Reproduction Update) published a study late last week called Temporal Trends in Sperm Counts: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis that looked at over 330 studies of 43,000 men from 1973 through 2011. […]
sugar turns men into women and women into men
ANOTHER EFFECT OF SUGAR: TURNING MEN INTO WOMEN AND WOMEN INTO MEN Well, I’m not dumb but I can’t understandWhy she walk like a woman and talk like a manOh my Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo LolaBoys will be girls and girls will be boys, it’s a mixed up world………From […]
diabetes and sexual function / infertility
TYPE II DIABETES AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION & INFERTILITY The statistics on TYPE II DIABETES are astounding. According to a recent study (HERE), in the state of California — a state whose climate makes it downright easy to exercise and eat fresh produce year round when compared to the rest of the country […]
another reason to avoid sugar — infertility
WHY CAN’T WE HAVE A BABY? “Almost one in six couples face infertility.” The headline of a January, 2013 article for Reuters, by Genevra Pittman. The article was discussing a study called Prevalence of Infertility in the United States as Estimated by the Current Duration Approach and a Traditional Constructed Approach. “A digestive disorder caused […]
solving monthly female problems and infertility
PMS, ABNORMAL PERIODS, AND INFERTILITYAN AMERICAN EPIDEMIC According to the January, 2011 issue of the Journal of Women’s Health (Core Symptoms That Discriminate Premenstrual Syndrome), “More than 20% of menstruating women experience premenstrual syndrome (PMS) to a degree that warrants clinical treatment.” The “core symptoms” that this study listed were, “anxiety/tension, mood swings, aches, appetite/food […]
time magazine takes on low testosterone
THE TRUTH ABOUTLOW TESTOSTERONE Ryan McGuire – Ithaca/NY – Pixabay “There are no testosterone drugs approved as a treatment for low testosterone levels without an associated medical condition. But thousands of doctors are prescribing testosterone off-label for men with borderline low or even normal T levels…. America’s beer bellies could be worth their weight in […]
infertility and the debate over in vitro fertilization (ivf)
IVF AS THE FRONT LINE FOR INFERTILITYIS THERE A BETTER WAY? Image by Nils Fretwurst “IVF has evolved in many parts of the world as a profit-generating industry that values the money brought in by immediate gains of pregnancy and live birth over long-term considerations about the health of the mothers and children”. Dr. Ben […]
beating infertility naturally
BEATING INFERTILITY NATURALLY Infertility. It’s a significant issue in the US. And if you are one of the millions of couples dealing with this issue, you are already aware of just how emotionally devastating it can be. According to the latest CDC statistics….. -Number of women ages 15-44 with impaired ability to have children: […]
drugs and erectile dysfunction
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS & ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION (ED) It is an interesting dichotomy. Despite the fact that I am seeing increasing numbers of patients who take no prescription or over-the-counter drugs at all, I am also seeing more people who are taking the proverbial “boatload” of medicine. Not too long ago, I wrote about the drug explosion […]