Testosterone is a Health Hormone Majid Ali, M.D. In the minds of most people, testosterone is a hormone involved with male sexual function. This is a serious mistake. It is the root of most misconceptions about the roles of this hormone in preserving memory and other mental functions, muscle strength, heart health, bone resilience, and other functions in both men
Read moreMajid Ali, M.D. I present the subject of sex (gonadal) hormone health by raising three questions: What did my professors and medical textbooks teach me about hormonal balance? What did evolutionary intelligent design teach me about hormonal homeostasis? What did my patients—the truest of all my teachers teach me about hormonal healing? What Did My Professors Teach? In 1958, my
Read moreWomen’s Testosterone Toxicity Syndrome Majid Ali, M.D. New research: Doctors are evaluating the association between testosterone and free testosterone and metabolic disturbances (disrupted chemical/hormone reactions) in polycystic ovary syndrome. In brief they found Polycystic ovary syndrome women with elevated free testosterone levels have an adverse metabolic profile readings including 2 hour glucose, HbA1c, fasting and 2 hour insulin.1 In this
Read moreAge of Estrogen Overdrive Majid Ali, M.D. There are two points that will be focused on in this article: 1. To show how xenoestrogens—chemicals that have estrogen-like effects—are causing a growing number of ecodis-eases and ecodiseases, including the near-epidemic increase in cancer of the breast and prostate.2. To shed some light on the prevailing controversy concerning the clinical value of synthetic
Read moreDHEA DHEA, dehydroepiandrosterone, is a primary adrenal hormone which serves as one of the body’s major anti-aging hormones. In contrast to steroids that depress our antioxidant and immune defense systems, DHEA supports such defenses. (I will let you in on a secret: Holistic physicians prescribe DHEA liberally for their family members, and most of them take it themselves for enhancement
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