Health Watchers' News and Views

Why Stress Makes You Fat

Heavy people who are stressed get even heavier, regardless of diet and exercise. Dr. Erika explains why stress packs on the pounds and how to manage stress so that the body can come back into balance.

9 ways to reduce the risk of breast cancer

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but the media focus of this month tends to be about curing breast cancer, with little said about how to prevent breast cancer. The bad news is that we’re no closer to a cure for breast cancer than we were 50 years ago. We have somewhat more effective chemotherapies for treating breast cancer, but they all can have terrible, even deadly, side effects and hardly qualify as a cure.

The good news is that we know a lot more about how to prevent breast cancer than we did 50 years ago.

Suzy’s Top Tips To Protect Against Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the third most common cause of death from cancer in men of all ages, and most common cause of death from cancer in men over 75. You are smart to think ahead and so I’ve researched and prepared this list of 8 ways to help you and other proactive men protect against prostate cancer.

Dr. Leonetti Q&A – Progesterone side effects and allergies, timing, and more…

Helene Leonetti, M.D. answers questions from readers about how to use bioidentical progesterone cream, progesterone side effects and allergies, how to time progesterone cream, whether to use estrogen and more…

Dr. Randolph Speaks to the Vibrant Legacy of Dr. John Lee

It saddens me to hear that a knowledgeable medical professional would undervalue the seminal role Dr. John Lee has played, and continues to play, in our now burgeoning field of bioidentical hormone replacement therapies (BHRT).

Prevention is All about the Doctor-Patient Relationship!

It’s all about prevention, but how can you even begin to address prevention when the real implementers of prevention aren’t even part of the discussion? I’m referring to the doctor-patient relationship which ultimately makes or breaks the entire system. Remember Dr. Welby? Remember when doctors were beloved and patients were respected and cared for? Those were the days when the cost of healthcare was not prohibitive. In those days genomics and MRIs were scarce but good will and health were abundant. What changed?

Pain Killers May Be Banned

I am stressed out that I may not be able to get my pain medication, Vicodin. I’ve taken it for years, following a work accident. I’m not addicted. I really have pain but the pharmacist told me that it’s going off the market. Please tell me he’s wrong. I can’t live without it. …

Dr. Leonetti Responds to Reader Questions and Comments

Dr. Helene Leonetti responds to questions and comments from readers about bioidentical hormones, progesterone cream, Dr. John Lee, thyroid, the effects of getting tubes tied and more…

Estriol and Breast Cancer

Over the past few years controversy has erupted over the risk of developing breast cancer with estriol therapy. A study from Sweden (Rosenberg et al, 2006) suggests that estriol can increase risk of lobular carcinoma when used for five years or less, and decrease the risk when used for more than five years. Unlike estriol however, oral estradiol and progestins continue to increase risk after five years. The results of this study may appear to be confusing, but can be explained by the differences in cancer initiation and cancer promotion by different types of estrogen.

Buyer Be Aware of Non-prescription Human Growth Hormone (HGH) Products

… For the rest of us who can’t afford real HGH, there are dozens if not hundreds of pseudo-HGH treatments, none of which have been shown to have the benefits of real HGH. They are marketed under names such as pro-HGH, homeopathic HGH, HGH enhancers, secretagogues and releasers.This is code for: “there’s no actual HGH in this product,” but you would never know that from the advertising and marketing.