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Of the eight home low testosterone tests and hormone tests readily available online, the questions I’m asked more than any other: what works? and how well? And should I just eat two Brazil Nuts a day if I think my testosterone level and selenium levels are low? And can [...]
Controlling cholesterol is a small part of preventing heart disease. Yet physicians seldom offer the most powerful, least risky weapons we have against it. Instead, we recommend statin medications, and soon can prescribe a just-FDA approved biotech medication called Praluent. For decades, [...]
We’re barely half way in and already it’s apparent: if men have had undue attention to what it means to be a man focused on them in any year in this century, it’s this one. Why? It could be the eruption of the Low T controversy: it might be [...]
This is Men’s Health Week, not just another Hallmark holiday, and it culminates in Father’s Day. Over the last several years as I tested and wrote REFUEL, I’ve discovered that there is a huge gender gap in health and health understanding, and that there is something to do about [...]
The debate about low T has dramatically accelerated in the 2 weeks since the NYTimes published “Don’t Ask Your Doctor About Low T.” The day after, the NY Times published an editorial of its own, calling on regulators “to strengthen warning labels and find ways to rein in [...]
It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. But not here. I feel lucky: lucky that Don’t Ask Your Doctor About Low T (a dramatic title, meant to point out that men don’t have to medicalize aging and have the power to change their health and their T without [...]
Here is the first Refuel Minute: I loved doing these, and wrote and recorded them at the same time as I developed the trailer for REFUEL: the talented, patient and super efficient Jesse Natale filmed both. Here are the main points 1. Track something 2. Protein and [...]
Osteoporosis is thought of as a women’s disease, but osteoporosis in men can be even more dangerous. Men are at greater risk of complication and death when they fracture their hip than are women: men are twice as likely to die as women after a fracture. Up to 25% [...]
Problems with weight control can be an issue for your health, but did you know overweight could also be causing depression? When a man gains those extra pounds around his waist, which is where men do, his testosterone levels may be reduced. Testosterone affects a man’s mood and outlook [...]
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