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Hormone Replacement Therapy May Boost Women’s Hearts

Women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) during menopause appear to have changes in heart structure and function that may be associated with a lower risk of heart disease, suggest the results of a novel UK study. .
In a statement by his institution, he added that the results show HRT “is not associated with any adverse changes to the heart’s structure and function, and may be associated with some healthier heart characteristics.”

“For most menopausal women — especially those under the age of 60 — the benefits of taking HRT outweigh any potential risks.”

The research, published online March 8 in PLoS One, also indicates that the effect was more pronounced in older women, with the greatest benefit of HRT seen in women who were in their late 60s and older when their hearts were imaged.

Testosterone Therapy May Lower Prostate Cancer Incidence

Hypogonadal men who receive testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) may have a lower incidence of prostate cancer (PCa) than those not receiving TRT, according to study findings presented at the Sexual Medicine Society of North America 18th Annual Fall Scientific Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. In addition, PCa diagnosed in TRT recipients is less severe than PCa diagnosed in men unexposed to TRT.

I have believed this for a long time, it is nice to see good studies supporting my views.

The new findings add to those from previous studies showing a protective effect of TRT against PCa. Earlier this year, Stacy Loeb, MD, of New York University, and colleagues published the results of a case-control study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (2017;35:1430-1436) showing that men who received TRT had a decreased risk of aggressive PCa.

IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT MOST DOCS STILL ARE AFRAID TO USE TESTOSTERONE FEARING THEY WILL CAUSE PROSTATE CANCER

It’s not that I can’t understand their misguided notions

Afterall, they have been getting a lot of bad information.
My belief on food choices is simple. Man has teeth befitting an omnivorous animal. That means we are meant to eat both plants and animals. Our digestive enzyme systems support this view. Why limit your choices artificially?

Vegetarianism Linked to Depression

Male vegetarians are at greater risk for depression than their meat-eating counterparts, new research suggests.

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) study of more than 9600 men showed that those who reported being vegetarians or vegans had significantly higher scores on a depression-measuring scale than nonvegetarians.

In addition, significantly more of the vegetarian/vegan group had a score >10 on the measure, signifying mild to moderate depression.

“Nutritional deficiencies (eg, in cobalamin or iron) are a possible explanation for these findings,” write the investigators.

Menopause Triggers Metabolic Brain Changes Linked to Alzheimer’s

Compared to premenopausal women, perimenopausal and postmenopausal women exhibited brain hypometabolism on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography in the same brain regions as do patients with clinical AD. The findings correlated with reductions in mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase (COX) activity.

These findings suggest a “progressively increased risk of an Alzheimer Disease endophenotype in women who undergo the perimenopause to menopause transition and suggest that endocrine aging outweighs the effects of chronological aging in the female’s brain several years, if not decades, before possible clinical symptoms emerge,” the authors write.

“Our findings show that the loss of estrogen in menopause doesn’t just diminish fertility. This study suggests there may be a critical window of opportunity, when women are in their 40s and 50s, to detect metabolic signs of higher Alzheimer’s risk and apply strategies to reduce that risk,” Lisa Mosconi, PhD, associate director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, said in a news release.

Long-term Testosterone Boosts Urinary, Sexual Function

Remember all the hype of how testosterone administration might increase the risk of prostate cancer and likely increased the risk of cardiovascular events.

After all there is a black box warning on Testosterone products to that effect. Just today my own physician reminded me of those risks.

I have argued vociferously for many years that it was all untrue and finally the truth about the many benefits and real risks have been quantified and published in a peer reviewed major journal. The real risk is not having enough testosterone, not getting treated with testosterone.

Sadly this will be ignored by mainstream medicine again.

Here is what they found.

Men with testosterone deficiency who take long-term testosterone-replacement therapy experience improvements in urinary and sexual function, as well as better quality of life, a registry study suggests. In addition, the data show no increase in risk for adverse events with the treatment.

Following 656 men with hypogonadism for up to 10 years, the researchers found that those who received testosterone therapy to physiological levels had significantly fewer urinary symptoms and were less likely to have erectile dysfunction, despite increases in prostate volumes.

The study, which was a collaboration between researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health and urologists in Germany, was published online in the Journal of Urology on July 18.

The results show that testosterone therapy “is well-tolerated, with progressive and sustained improvement in urinary and sexual function and overall improvement in quality of life,” lead author Abdulmaged Traish, PhD, department of urology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

The team also found that there were significant improvements in erectile function among men given testosterone therapy (P < .0001), with the proportion of men with no erectile dysfunction increasing from 17.1% to 74.4%. Controls experienced a nonsignificant decrease in erectile function.

“There were no major adverse events in the testosterone-therapy group, compared with five deaths, eight nonfatal strokes, and eight nonfatal myocardial infarctions in the control group.”
WHICH GROUP DO YOU WANT TO BE IN?

Coverage from the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2017

Exercise Top Lifestyle Factor for Alzheimer’s Prevention?

Exercise is relatively inexpensive and is almost universally accessible, “Anyone can exercise, even those who have disabilities.”

Exercise does not have the side effects associated with some medications,”No one has ever had a side effect from eating a salad or running an extra 30 minutes.”

Of all lifestyle interventions aimed at preventing dementia, there seems to be more evidence for physical activity, possibly because it more directly affects cerebral blood flow.

If you add bioidentical hormone replacement to regular exercise and add a healthy diet, I believe that you can drastically reduce your Alzheimer’s risk.

My father lived with Alzheimer’s disease for 10 years. Changing my lifestyle and diet to try and prevent or postpone my own development has been a strong motivating factor for me.