Medicines & Miracles

Your Hormone Health The naked truth behind hormone science and how to safely rejuvenate mind, body and spirit BY GLORIA HAKKARAINEN MD, FACOG, FASBP, FABAAM The newest data on hormone research shows that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) actually benefits patients when dosing route and medication are properly chosen, and when doctors monitor patients closely. The big scare which had women going off hormone therapy started in 2001, with the preliminary results of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI). The WHI study looked into the use of Premarin and Prempro in women who on average were already 17 years into menopause. It showed that Prempro (a mixture of pregnant purified horse mare’s urine and synthetic... [Read more]

Have Heart

What you should know about cardio care LADIES, WHEN IT COMES DOWN to the facts—they are heartrending. Heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular diseases are devastating to women, destroying the lives of more women per year than all other cancers combined. Among the common risk factors are: increasing age, heredity, smoking, high blood pressure and obesity. Other factors like stress can cause hypertension, ultimately causing the onset of heart disease. Regardless of the fact that one in four women perish from heart disease, until now, cardiovascular disease was mostly overlooked in women due to its misleading label as a “men’s disease.” Luckily, due to scientific advances and owledgeable doctors, the rate of heartrelated... [Read more]

Stem Cell Therapy

Have you ever watched a Hollywood movie where people (or their organs) are biologically cloned? It sounds rather futuristic and scary at first but the reality of accomplishments in regenerative and anti-aging medicine might surprise and impress you. Remember the boy who lived in the plastic bubble? He could have possibly been saved by stem cell therapy. According to the National Academies of Science, doctors have been using adult stem cells—the active agents in bone marrow transplant—for over 40 years to treat a variety of diseases including leukemia, rare anemias, blood cancers and immune system diseases. What is a stem cell? A stem cell is a cell that has potential to transform itself into different needed cell... [Read more]