Testosterone: Hello Gents…Do any of my readers out there experience a decrease in libido, moodiness, irritability, loss of “drive”, inner unrest, anxiety, memory loss, fatigue, difficulty digesting food and/or becoming more passive…

If so, then you should have the following tests run in order to properly formulate a protocol to assist you in regaining those lost stores of Testosterone. These symptoms can occur in men in their early 30′s. Don’t wait on this guys – call me or your personal doctor for assistance.

LABS: Complete Blood Chemistry, Comprehensive Metabolic Profile, Liver-Kidney Function, Thyroid, Free and Total Testosterone, Estradiol, Dihydrotestosterone, DHEA, PSA, Homocystine, Luteininzing Hormone and Sex Hormone Binding Globulin. When a proper technique is employed to return your levels to normal, the side-effects are positive and in most cases very advantageous, as increasing a deficiency in testosterone will also protect very important aspects of the man’s body such as the cardiovascular system and prostate.

Please guys, DON’T BE SHY – let’s look at your symptom’s and improve your quality of life as well as help protect your prostate from cancer and your heart from an attack.

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Natural progesterone is typically produced by a woman’s ovaries during the normal monthly menstrual cycle. This is, of course, if there is ovulation.  Natural progesterone balances out the estrogen. Estrogen promotes cell growth, and progesterone keeps that growth from going too far or out of control.

If you don’t have enough progesterone in your body, your estrogen cannot be balanced. Unbalanced estrogen is very dangerous and unhealthy.  Eventually this will  cause symptoms to occur. Progesterone can balance Estrogen Dominance which is known to create a strong risk for breast and reproductive cancer.

Are your hormones out of balance?

Symptoms of hormone imbalance are caused when the primary hormones, such as progesterone and estrogen are out of whack. These imbalances can start when there are changes in the cycle as well as environmental factors (medications, diet, exercise, chemicals, etc.) Please see the website for additional information on improving diet, exercise and chemical toxicity.

During normal menses, only estrogen is produced for the first 10-12 days. Ovulation then signals that the female body needs to produce progesterone, and the hormones are in homeostatic balance.

Progesterone sustains the endometrium, so it can accept the fertilized egg.  If there’s no pregnancy, then the body stops producing those hormones, and menstruation begins.  So, what happens if there is no ovulation for one month? What’s the scoop with the estrogen.  The estrogen doesn’t get balanced by progesterone! This can potentially be a viscous cycle that will undoubtedly lead to symptoms. If this viscous cycle continues… it will take its toll on the body. This is especially true if women take birth control pills and synthetic hormones.

A missed ovulation cycle will mean no production of progesterone! Unbalanced estrogen is toxic and one of the primary issues surrounding the imbalance. Imbalanced hormones can cause an array of symptoms and issues that can make you feel like you are going crazy.

Estrogen dominance can cause the following:

Hair loss, fibrocystic breasts, uterine fibroids, acceleration of the aging process, breast cancer, polycystic ovaries, mood swings, osteoporosis, uterine cancer, memory loss, endometrial cancer, bone loss, PMS, low sex drive, allergy symptoms, thyroid dysfunction, water retention, bloating and unexplained weight gain.  If you have estrogen dominance then you probably have a deficiency in progesterone.

As females age they begin to ovulate less and less. This usually results in higher levels of estrogen and lower levels of progesterone in your bloodstreams. When such imbalances occur with the hormone levels pre-menopause and menopause symptoms can wreck havoc on you and your body!

Estrogen and progesterone need each other.  Estrogen supplementation therapy must always be used in conjunction with progesterone. It is safe, however, to use progesterone alone.

Functions and effects of the two hormones together and their impact on the body can be seen below. These hormones balance each other. Typically I start with progesterone therapy on my patients, if indicated and usually the estrogen imbalance corrects itself. If not, then, if needed I will use and/or recommend bio-identical estrogen.  

Estrogen Deficiency Effects            Progesterone Effects

• Weight gain                                    • Utilizes fat for energy

• Decreases sex drive                      • Restores sex drive

• Depletes bone density                 • Stimulates bone density

• Depression, headaches                • Natural antidepressant

• Fibrocystic breasts                        • Protects fibrocystic breasts

• Increases endometrial cancer    • Prevents endometrial cancer

• Increases blood clotting               • Normalizes blood clotting

• Thyroid imbalance                         • Causes thyroid balance

• Irregular menses                            • Normalizes periods

• Hypertension                                  • Regulates blood pressure

• Risk of miscarriage                         • Prevents miscarriages

• Breast cancer risk                           • Decreases breast cancer risk

I am extremely picky about products and therapies that I recommend.  This is why you will find such a limited selection of products.  After extensive clinical use of many different brands of progesterone cream, I have come to appreciate the consistent results from ProgesterAll™ and Progesta Care.  For those of you who have done any research into Bio-identical Hormone replacement therapy, you  know that Dr. Lee is the father of this paradigm in medicine.  He was a conventional physician who has made substantial health benefits in thousands of women’s lives.

ProgesterAll™ contains the exact amounts of the ingredients that Dr. Lee recommended for women in his groundbreaking books, including:

·         What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause

·         What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Perimenopause

·         What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer

ProgesterAll™ is the only natural balancing cream that has the Lee family’s permission to have Dr. Lee’s name on it.   Indeed, the Lee family is the majority owner of the company that produces ProgesterAll™.  This ensures that the product will always adhere to the strict guidelines that Dr. Lee laid down for natural balancing creams.

One of the unique qualities of ProgesterAll™ that sets it apart from similar products is its liposome-mediated delivery system. The system ensures rapid absorption of the ingredients into the skin so they can be stored in the underlying fatty tissues for transmission to the bloodstream.  Many patients often complain about using hormone creams because they are greasy and hard to rub in.  ProgesterAll™ melts instantly into your skin and leaves no greasy residue. The same is true from Progesta Care. These creams are among some of the best quality that I have found.

ProgesterAll™ Ingredients, Net Weight  - 2 fluid ounces:

Deionized Water, Capryllic/Capric Triglyceride, Simugel (Plant based thickener), Progesterone (20 mg per 1/4 teaspoon or 960 mg per 2-ounce tube), Glycerin, Phospholids, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Sodium Hydroxymethylglycinate, Potassium Sorbate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Citric Acid.

As you can see, this product contains all natural based ingredients.  No junk! If you can’t pronounce it…don’t put it in your mouth or on your skin. If you compare this to other similar products you will see that the others’ ingredient list is shaky at best.  One specific point to take note of here is that there is an amazing liposomal delivery system (similar to the Lypo-Spheric Vitamin C) that gives you maximum absorption and health benefits. It also contains no artificial fragrance or color.

Suggested Use:

The following information is for general use and not intended to encourage self-diagnosis or self-treatment, or to replace the guidance of your healthcare professional. I highly recommend that you first have your hormone levels checked before beginning any type of hormonal replacement therapy. This can be done very easily with a saliva test. Please contact our office for assistance with this.  Just because its “natural” doesn’t mean it is without consequences.  We are here for you and ready to help.

Gently massage 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon of cream (about the size of a garbanzo bean) into areas of thinner skin where you blush such as the neck, face, chest, breasts, inner arms or thighs, palms of the hands, or soles of the feet (unless your hands or feet are heavily callused).  The optimal approach is a divided dose with a larger dose at bedtime and a smaller dose in the morning, or as directed by your healthcare provider.  Rotate areas daily to avoid saturation.

A few tips about using ProgesterAll™:

Apply the cream after a warm shower or bath, not before it. When it is used on the face, let it soak in completely before applying makeup, and do not apply ProgesterAll™ on top of makeup.

Guidelines for Perimenopausal Women. If you have an average 26- to 30-day menstrual cycle, you can begin your first month of cream use between day 10 to 12 of your menstrual cycle, counting the first day of your period as day 1.  Continue until a day or two before your expected period, which for most women is between 26 and 30 days. If your period starts before your chosen last day, stop using the cream and begin counting again to day 10, 11, or 12. The closer you can get to using the cream when you ovulate or just after, the more in tune with your own cycle you will be. It may take two or three cycles to find the synchrony your body desires.

Guidelines for Menopausal Women. The majority of menopausal women can simply use 1/8 teaspoon to 1/4 teaspoon of ProgesterAll™ for 24 to 26 days in a row of the calendar month. Many women find it easiest to start using the cream on the first day of the month and stop from day 24 to 26 until the next month. Other women prefer to take their hormone break for the first five to six days of the calendar month and then use the cream until the end of the month. It is best to use the cream in divided doses, in the morning and evening before bed, with a little larger dose in the evening. However, if that does not work well for you, do not be concerned, just pick one time of the day when it’s most convenient to use it and use the whole dose.

The products AskDrSkip.com are not offered for the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of any disease or disorder, nor have any statements herein been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We strongly encourage our customers to discuss topics of concern with their health care professionals.

If you or someone you know has Cancer, HIV, Hepatitis, Chronic Fatigue or Multiple Sclerosis please see this website about Low Dose Naltrexone. I have recommended LDN therapy with my patients and I, as well as the patients, have been extremly impressed with the results. Now please understand that this medication is used as part of a complete protocol and not as a stand-alone treatment in my practice. Anything that can be done to help stimulate the immune system in my opinion is definitely worth a deeper look.  

Naltrexone itself was approved by the FDA in 1984 in a 50mg dose for the purpose of helping heroin or opium addicts, by blocking the effect of such drugs. By blocking opioid receptors, naltrexone also blocks the reception of the opioid hormones that our brain and adrenal glands produce: beta-endorphin and metenkephalin. Many body tissues have receptors for these endorphins and enkephalins, including virtually every cell of the body’s immune system.

In 1985, Bernard Bihari, MD, a physician with a clinical practice in New York City, discovered the effects of a much smaller dose of naltrexone (approximately 3mg once a day) on the body’s immune system. He found that this low dose, taken at bedtime, was able to enhance a patient’s response to infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. [Note: Subsequently, the optimal adult dosage of LDN has been found to be 4.5mg.]

In the mid-1990′s, Dr. Bihari found that patients in his practice with cancer (such as lymphoma or pancreatic cancer) could benefit, in some cases dramatically, from LDN. In addition, people who had an autoimmune disease (such as lupus) often showed prompt control of disease activity while taking LDN.

(above taken directly from lowdosenaltrexone.org)

If you have questions regarding your health care or would like a consultation please contact me and I will be happy to work with you!

As most of you already know, I have been seriously entrenched in health and wellness product research for over 10 years. I have traveled all over the world reviewing hundreds of products, and attending countless seminars and lectures…and have been personally introduced to some of the most cutting edge “supplements” available today. Through all of my research, I never came across a product with more merit, and such promise, as the one called ASEA.

ASEA is quite literally, stabilized, reactive molecules in a bottle. These molecules are suspended in a saline solution that matches the natural pH of the human body, and they work at the deepest cellular level…specifically, in the mitochondria. To the layman, this product needs a bit of explanation which is covered in detail by a short, animated video on my website, www.askdrskip.teamasea.com. This video very simply details specifically how ASEA affects our cellular health, while also increasing glutathione, SOD and Catalase levels by 500%. Testing by the FDA has shown absolutely zero toxicity in ASEA.

Recently, ASEA Corporation flew me, to their headquarters to meet the founders, CEO’s and the key scientist behind ASEA, Dr. Gary Samuelson – I was more than impressed, to say the least; not only with the science behind it, called Redox Signaling, but also with the caliber and vision of those directly involved with its creation. I came away with a high level of excitement and anticipation at just what this product could mean to the world.

Just a few weeks ago, ASEA received its Athletic Drug Testing Certification and it has been approved for use by all high-level competitive, endurance athletes, including Olympic Athletes. Incredibly, controlled testing by Dr. Eric Heiden and his team showed that ASEA significantly increased the Ventilatory Threshold by an average of 12% in only two weeks. Typically, a full year of intense training will show an increase of only 2%-5%. There is a plethora of printed research on all of this, and I would be more than happy to forward it to you if you like.

Additionally, ASEA has been clinically shown to improve adrenal fatigue, skin issues, and immune system disorders; not to mention bacterial, fungal and viral loads.

ASEA is considered a one of the most important breakthroughs of our time, primarily because the signaling molecules that were once thought impossible to stabilize…are now stabilized. The 16 molecules that are in ASEA are found in virtually the same concentration inside the cells in your immune system. The generalized explanation is that this product will reboot your cellular/immune system.

I encourage any and all questions you may have about this incredible product. I hope that you will take a few moments to visit my website to watch the video and read more about it. There is also a new u-tube link where you can hear the founders of ASEA tell their story. Please visit this link at: www.YouTube.com/ASEAvideo.

Oregano is just one of those things that is handy to keep around and use frequently. There aren’t many things (I am really starting to sound like a broken record here) that I recommend taking continuously, but oregano is NOT one of those things.

There are many various studies that have been done that have shown this amazing oil is a potent purifier for the body. The two primary compounds that make up oregano are thymol and carvacrol. Both of which have proven to have positive effects on harmful bacteria and microorganisms that cause many various illnesses.

It is important to not get the conventional spice Oregano confused with the Oil of Oregano. They have a similar taste, but the Oil of Oregano is where the health benefits are gained. The spice is called Origanum Marjoram, while Oil of Oregano is derived from Origanum Vulgare.

Carvacrol from Oil of Oregano is a natural phenol that has powerful anti-microbial activity. The flavonoids provide natural antiseptic properties, and the Terpenes are natural anti-inflammatory agents. You know how much I love the natural anti-inflammatory products!! Just read the article I wrote on Wobenzym.

Wild Organic Oregano is rich in a long list of minerals including calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, potassium, copper, boron, and manganese as well as Vitamins C and A (beta carotene) and niacin.

It’s extremely safe and very effective. Both of which are things that I love in a health supplement. Oregano Oil has many wonderful redeeming health benefits. Let’s break them down…

OREGANO OIL BENEFITS

Skin Infections – effective against the harmful bacteria and organisms and improves the texture and quality of the skin
Immune System – will boost the immune system
Respiratory System – thins the mucous making it easier to breath in various respiratory illnesses (useful in problems in the sinus’, colds, flu and sore throats)
Digestive System – due to the functionality of the main ingredients, Oil of Oregano has been shown to help soothe the digestive tract and help with an upset stomach.
Inflammation – this can be due to rashes, gingivitis and/or rash or skin infections – use topically, but dilute it with some coconut or olive oil as straight Oil of Oregano is very strong and can irritate if used full strength
Detoxification – this is a great general detoxifier for the system as it just gets rid of various little bugs that like to invade our systems and cause trouble

SIDE EFFECTS of Oil of Oregano are minimal. As with pretty much any product it should not be taken long term. Long term use can inhibit the absorption of iron – so if for any reason you need to take it long term, iron supplementation may be warranted. This would be something you would need to talk to a healthcare provider about. If you are pregnant long term use of this product should be avoided.

The Oil of Oregano that we stock comes from an exceptional company and their product has no artificial chemicals or toxic byproducts, kosher and suitable for vegetarians and contains many essential minerals and vitamins.

The Oil of Oregano can be taken internally and used topically. A general dose (please read labels) is 3-5 drops in some juice – orange will help mask the taste. This can be taken for 5-7 days depending on the severity of the issue.

I, of course, prefer that you use a product that is organic and/or wild crafted. The one we recommend has been selected because of the proper concentrations of the primary ingredients as well as the fact that it is from an organic and high quality source.

DISCLAIMER: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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