Public education

It’s becoming progressively more accepted that premature aging is due to a decline in hormone levels, and that restoring these levels helps avoid many diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, dementia, osteoporosis and arthritis. Other consequences of deficiency include visual and hearing loss, fractures, frailty, incontinence, obesity and reduced libido. Additionally, low testosterone or rising estrone levels in men are associated with prostate cancer, while low progesterone or raised estrogen levels in women may result in breast cancer. Synthetic hormones…

For many practitioners, elevated uric acid is not typically a marker that sets off alarm bells. Most write it off as an indication of over-indulgence, and send their patients home with a minor prescription and some sober advice about their lifestyle. Gout, the most well-known consequence of elevated uric acid, is painful but easily treatable and usually benign. Uric acid kidney stones are more serious, but most pass without requiring surgery or intensive intervention. Recent research suggests, however, that these…