SaJune Newsletter

High cholesterol and diabetes are rampant in America and cost our healthcare system billions of dollars and thousands of unnecessary deaths. Plenty of medications are available, but there are restorative approaches you can use to correct the way your body to process cholesterol and sugar like it once did. Here are 5 easy steps to reducing your risk of falling prey to these killers (...)

Why does bone density decline? As we age the rate of bone breakdown exceeds the rate of bone building, therefore the density of the bone gradually declines in both men and women from the early 30's. This is a natural result of loss of bone-building hormones (such as progesterone, testosterone, DHEA) and bone-building nutrients (such as calcium, magnesium, boron) and the gain of toxins (such as mercury, lead, smoking, soda, high animal protein intake and acidity).

Inflammation (Latin, inflammare, to set on fire) is part of the complex biological response of vascular tissues to harmful stimuli, such as infection, pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants. Inflammation is a protective attempt by the organism to remove the injurious stimuli and to initiate the healing process. It is characterized by an influx of white blood cells, redness, heat, swelling, pain, and dysfunction of the organs involved.

We are exposed daily to high levels of toxins (i.e. chemicals, pesticides, water contaminants, food preservatives, heavy metals and electromagnetic radiation) through our food, water, air, body and home products. These toxins lodge in the bowel, liver, kidneys, lymphatic system and especially fat tissue. The toxic build up prevents the normal uptake and utilization of nutrients, carbohydrates and proteins. It reduces the body’s oxygen uptake and creates an acidic, septic, low-energy state, prone to disease.

If you're overweight or struggling with obesity, you are not alone. Nearly two thirds of adults in the U.S. are dealing with this epidemic (National Center for Health Statistics (1999), (2000) Prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults). Obesity has been classified as a chronic disease. During the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity with rates rising in 37 states in 2007. Being obese or overweight is not about how you look: it's about your health. Being obese or overweight can affect your basic health and quality of life.

The following information is nothing short of amazing. The oncology industry has spent billions of dollars over the past 40 years “waging war against cancer.” However, even drugs touted as being great breakthroughs have rarely increased survival more than a few months for many late stage cancers. Evidence now clearly points to the fact that cancer surgery, despite offering great hope for many, is far too often itself a major cause of recurrent cancer, metastases, and decreased survival.1,2 The information in the following article, if utilized in a proactive and organized way by cancer patients, could dramatically enhance the published benefits regarding survival touted by pharmaceutical companies for even the most popular of chemotherapy drugs. This is evidence-based medicine at its finest, as it is founded on a growing body of studies published in the peer-reviewed, scientific literature. This approach could literally revolutionize the way cancer surgery is performed in the United States, and dramatically impact the lives thousands of cancer patients for the better.

Mary Anne comes from the “cancer world”, status post opinions and second opinions, surgeons and oncologists, surgery, and treatment with every new chemotherapeutic agent available. She is in remission…..maybe even cured from ovarian cancer (Stage IIa). It had been a long 3 years and finally the Ca-125 has stayed down for 12 months. Mary Anne comes in encouraged but very tired. She can not function for a full day without several naps. She has severe back pain from vertebral degeneration and osteoporosis. She takes several sleep aids and still can not sleep for one full night. She can not think clearly. She has no sex drive and she is losing her marriage. Age 49, she can not work from her fatigue and pain and she is nearly broke. Cancer……Cured???? Or not?

As an Ob/Gynecologist, the transition to using bio-identical hormones was a natural one. I started using progesterone first and slowly added the estrogens, testosterone, thyroid, melatonin, DHEA and growth hormone. A few years into the process of mastering hormone therapies, I realized that specific nutrients are critical to activate hormones. I learned that iodine was critical for thyroid and that chromium was critical for insulin. As I researched the subject it became clear that, although our knowledge in this area is in its infancy, thyroid hormone needs iodine, selenium, zinc, Vitamin A and several others for optimal activity.