Is estrogen good? Is estrogen bad? Do I need it? These are just some of the questions I seem to be getting daily in my practice as the “story” about hormones gets increasingly confusing. Let’s take a deeper look at an not so simple category:...
One female reader writes in wanting to know if there are any others like her who suffers from too-low levels of oestrogen and progesterone. According to her, the problem is not one of balance (the two hormones are in right ratio) but volume. Her...
The synthetic hormone progestogen is being widely prescribed to women for conditions where it is ineffective, or no more useful than a placebo, according to researchers from King's College Hospita ...
New evidence unearthed by Dr Jack Levenson, the dentist who has led the fight against amalgam fillings in the UK, shows that dental fillings could be behind the burgeoning of many 20th century con ...
Like most bad decisions in medicine, the latest bit of madness started with an accident. A young Australian woman with a 17 month old baby asked the Key Centre for Women's Health in Victoria, Aust ...
Evidence is accumulating that the testosterone precursor androstenedione confers no benefit to men, and may even be harmful. ...
Interestingly, in the same study, women 45 years or older who were not taking replacement hormones were significantly less likely to experience symptoms of severe oestrogen deficiency than those t ...
Sleep deprivation research usually focuses on what it does to the mind. ...
Men with prostate cancer are unlikely to gain any real benefit from androgen suppression procedures, either surgical or pharmacological, which are aimed at controlling male hormones. ...
At least one doctor is less than enthusiastic about the fountain of youth hormone drug test being tested on patients over 60. Newcastle upon Tyne consultant endocrinologist Fredrick Clark is criti ...