Several patients have asked me questions about estrogen hormone and how it might affect their health, particularly cancer risk. Many cancers are estrogen-sensitive, meaning that estrogen is like fertilizer for them. Estrogen is one of many different hormone-disrupting chemicals. At last count, the EPA estimates there are over 85,000 different hormone-disrupting chemicals we are commonly […]
Since 1980 the childhood obesity rates for children between the ages of two to nineteen have tripled. For middle-aged-kids, ages six to eleven, this rate has doubled and the teen obesity rate has quadrupled. We have an obesity epidemic in this country. This has nothing to do with genetics; the American populace has the same […]
I was researching the impact of sugar on the body when I came across an article that blew me away. It was a study published in the Endocrine Society journal on the impact of sugar on male testosterone levels. Currently testosterone levels are typically tested in the morning when levels are the highest with a […]