When I talk to my patients and friends about starting Hormone Replacement Therapy I often hear that fear of cancer is main reason not to start hormones. When I hear their response I remember what my father, the prominent oncologist, used to say.
" Cancer is merciful disease, it kills it's victims, look at all these diseases that linger for decades and tortures the sufferers like stroke for example or arthritis."
Recent article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is another proof not only for the need of HRT ( Hormone Replacement Therapy ) but the necessity of starting it early after the commencement of menopause.
As soon as hormone levels start to drop body starts a process of adjustment to the lower hormone levels and after several years bothersome symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and others subside. However the process of living without healthy levels of hormones lead to many undesirable changes in body genetics and chemistry that promote development of most of the Natural Diseases of Aging namely : Obesity, Diabetes, Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, Immuno depresion, Hyperadaptosis, Depression and Cancer.
Just imagine a victim of stroke. Paralysed on one side or unable to read and understand speech, unable to control urine or stool or blind.
The longer time woman is deprived of sex hormones the more adjustment changes take place and at a certain time these changes become irreversible.
This latest article just proves that the earlier you start your hormone replacement the better and gives another reason to seriously consider HRT as soon as you start process of menopause or about 10 years before periods stop.
To read the article from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences click here
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110802113616.htm
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Cofee may reduce a deadly prostate cancer in men.
Drinking coffee, as long as I remember, invited friendly remarks about high blood pressure and heart risks. Recent scientific findings, however, discovering multiply health benefits of coffee drinking such as reducing risk of diabetes, gout, breast cancer.
In this study the relationship between coffee drinking and prostate cancer was examined and health benefits of coffee was once more confirmed.
I am sure that pharmaceutical companies already pursue research to identify the active compound and make a drug, that will cost a bundle and will be prescribed for every aging male instead of recommending drinking this delicious and healthy beverage.
Click here to read the article.
In this study the relationship between coffee drinking and prostate cancer was examined and health benefits of coffee was once more confirmed.
I am sure that pharmaceutical companies already pursue research to identify the active compound and make a drug, that will cost a bundle and will be prescribed for every aging male instead of recommending drinking this delicious and healthy beverage.
Click here to read the article.
Monday, July 25, 2011
I love salty food.
It's time to end the war on salt.
All of my life I loved salty food. Never sweets.
I salt my food before I taste it. For me tasty means salty.
If food is salty enough it is tasty.
My friends, their parents all looked at me with scorn watching me adding salt to soup, salad, meal. I like buckwheat with salt, not sugar. I like salty rice and not a rice pudding. I hated some dishes that my grandmother, a great culinar, used to cook in paricilar sweet and sour beef .
When I order duck in french restaurant and I looove duck, I always ask if it is sweet, and if it is I order other meal.
When approached by somebody at the table that I should cut my salt intake, I usually ask: why?
Lay people and doctors alike stated to me that it is well known fact that salt in not good for me.
My answer was that I do not see why salt would be bad for me if my body has impecable mechanism for controlling the salt content of my body.
If I crave salt, or if I like salty food doesn this mean that my body needs salt.
Just like when you want to drink your body needs some water.
Sodium content of the body is the most basic constant in the body, it is the same like in the water of Pre Cambrian ocean where life began - 0.9 percent.
Can you imagine how happy I was when I read the following article.
It's time to end a war on salt.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt
All of my life I loved salty food. Never sweets.
I salt my food before I taste it. For me tasty means salty.
If food is salty enough it is tasty.
My friends, their parents all looked at me with scorn watching me adding salt to soup, salad, meal. I like buckwheat with salt, not sugar. I like salty rice and not a rice pudding. I hated some dishes that my grandmother, a great culinar, used to cook in paricilar sweet and sour beef .
When I order duck in french restaurant and I looove duck, I always ask if it is sweet, and if it is I order other meal.
When approached by somebody at the table that I should cut my salt intake, I usually ask: why?
Lay people and doctors alike stated to me that it is well known fact that salt in not good for me.
My answer was that I do not see why salt would be bad for me if my body has impecable mechanism for controlling the salt content of my body.
If I crave salt, or if I like salty food doesn this mean that my body needs salt.
Just like when you want to drink your body needs some water.
Sodium content of the body is the most basic constant in the body, it is the same like in the water of Pre Cambrian ocean where life began - 0.9 percent.
Can you imagine how happy I was when I read the following article.
It's time to end a war on salt.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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