Men's Health

Finding balance

Men’s Health

Hormonally speaking, it’s all about the balance. We seek to strike balance between hormones so you feel well, and function at your best. That means that your energy, mood, memory, mobility, and sexuality are functioning well. Hormones are not balanced often because phospholipids are not balanced. We offer fatty acids testing through Kennedy Kreiger at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

We speak in easy to understand language, not in ‘technical noise’. We are attuned to men’s issues, and we look at the full spectrum of hormones. We can help you lower your cholesterol without a prescription medicine. If you have diabetes we can offer you new treatment options. We can help you have a better memory, mood, and energy. We can help you regain your mental acumen and physical ‘edge’, improve your sexual functioning, be more stress resilient, and have better self esteem. 

We offer gene testing for complete methylation pathways, as well as consultations and treatments on variant reports (gene testing) such as from 23 and Me. We also offer gene testing to help prevent heart disease, stroke, and drug interactions.

Nitric oxide (NO), a hormone that is a gas, becomes depleted over time and supplementation can help with high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, and erectile dysfunction and immune function. See video.  

"Co-consumption of NO3– with vitamin C enhances “yield” of NO produced from a given NO3– dose

Promotes more efficient conversion between nitrite (NO2–) & NO

Attenuates NO degradation.” Beth Shirley (nitric oxide information contributor).

If you suffer from the untoward side effects of Propecia, called the Post Finasteride Syndrome, we may be able to help you function better. 

We are attuned to these issues and to the silent suffering that occurs in society. 

10 Clues of Testosterone deficiency:

Younger men require a more comprehensive evaluation that also takes into account their reproductive plans. We often see men with testosterone deficiencies that struggle with:

1. A pervasive sense of fatigue – you feel tired all day!

2. Losing mental and/or physical ‘edge’

3. ‘Couch potato’ after 5pm

4. Work outs do not produce the results of the past

5. Aches and pains (particularly in the neck and shoulders)

6. Sexual functioning decreased- unable to obtain or maintain erections, less ejaculate, etc…

7. Loss of self-confidence

8. Poor sleep

9. Less focused thinking

10. Depression

These symptoms can be reversed with bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. For example, Testosterone replacement can sharpen a man’s focus and mental clarity, improve self-esteem and self-confidence, help prevent heart disease by decreasing inflammation, improve blood sugars, helps build bone, helps build muscle, workouts are more productive, and improves sexual functioning.

By combining the work of hormone replacement with nutritional assessments, gene testing life style modifications, we offer you the best chance of becoming well and functioning at your best.

In the news: some bad press has come out about testosterone replacement therapy. The studies are flawed. Consider the research from Pamela Smith, MD, MPH, Director of the Fellowship in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine, and the Masters’ Program in metabolic and nutritional medicine who discusses the problems with these studies and about the benefits of testosterone replacement therapy. These flawed studies have lead to some doctors to stop prescribing testosterone to their patients without proper consideration of the benefits that testosterone replacement therapy offers. It is unfortunate, as these studies are confusing both physicians and patients.

PDE5 inhibitors, testosterone, diabetes and Cardiovascular disease. View here to see tremendous decrease in mortality. (Articles provided by Eugene Shippen, MD). Dr. Shippen is one of my mentors. He has exceptional insight into hormone replacement therapy, particularly Testosterone. He is the author of a book on testosterone.

Selenium and prostate cancer: View here.

Foods that reverse atherosclerosis and improve lipid/cholesterol markers: View here

About longevity: From Rapalogs to Anti-Aging Medicines: View here

Peptide Therapies for Testosterone elevation:

Deep (of Delta) Sleep Inducing Peptide (DSLP): This peptide not only helps regulate sleep, but is neuroprotective, increases glutathione and SOD in the brain which increases oxidative phosphorylation in the brain, and hence, improves LH release which can boost testosterone by 100 to 200 points. Oxidative stress in the brain causes age-associated decrease in testosterone. DSLP improves this process in the brain, where it can also help lower the feeling of stress by lowering ACTH. This peptide has also been shown to decrease alcohol and opioid withdrawal.

Kisspeptin: Developed in Hershey, Pennsylvania, home of Hershey kisses. This peptide increases Testosterone for men with both primary hypogonadism, and men who lose Testosterone from the aging process. This peptide works by increasing the pulse frequency and pulse size of LH. Testosterone levels may rise 100-250 points. It has been shown to be better than HCG for increasing testicular size. There is no feedback inhibition. There is physiologic Growth Hormone release, too.

Additional information psychological and psychiatric issues, and end-of-life issues:

Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy can improve many psychological and psychiatric issues such as: Autism Spectral Disorder, Sleep disorders, Burn-out Syndrome, improved Sexual Arousal, Depression, Slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, Irritability, Anxiety, Hypochondria,  Social Withdrawal, Bipolar disorders, and Schizophrenia. (See this section for psychological and psychiatric issues under Solutions).

However, eventually everyone dies. A few words about end of life care- hospice care,  might seem an incongruous conversation for this practice, but I want people to know that this part of your life counts and has meaning. I present an exceptional physician, Geoff Galbraith, MD, former director of Hospice in Hawaii, who expresses the work of hospice exceptionally.  I present, Dr. Galbraith: Watch video.

Healthy Living and Longevity Medical Center is not a substitute for your primary care physician. We are a complement to your primary care doctor and specialist.