Neurosteroids for Treatment of TBI
The diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, is NOT new. Treating TBI with neurosteroids is new! Approximately 5.3 million US citizens are currently living with disability secondary to TBI. A 2010 report showed “a brain injury occurs every seven seconds and results in death every 5 minutes representing approximately 4.3 million brain injuries and 53,000…
Read MoreHormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer. Is It Safe? Part 2
Last week’s blog post, “Hormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer. Is It Safe? Part 1,” began to address the controversial statement most believe to be true, “Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), especially estrogen, is dangerous and linked to cancer.” The blog summarized the many health benefits of HRT, however: Is the risk too great for breast…
Read MoreHormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer. Is it Safe? Part 1
“Psychologists have amply documented the human difficulty of changing our minds when the evidence says it is time to do so. The challenge for physicians is to recognize when we are stuck in an outdated paradigm, admit it, and move ahead.” Estrogen Replacement Therapy (ERT) is Dangerous and Linked to Cancer This controversial, polarizing statement…
Read MoreHistory of Menopause and Its Treatments
By the year 2030, approximately 1.2 billion women will be menopausal or postmenopausal worldwide. Greater than 85% of these women will experience disabling symptoms. As recent as the 1970s, “Menopause was defined as a psychological crisis that would cause disease under certain conditions. The most important condition was social, a woman’s adherence to departure from…
Read MoreVitamin D Toxicity: Can It Be Defined?
Recently, patients have presented to the office being told by their primary care physicians to reduce their vitamin D intake due to concern of vitamin D toxicity, despite their levels falling into the standard reference range, between 55 and 80 ng/mL. High dose vitamin D therapy has been used historically and in modern times to…
Read MoreEffectiveness of Covid Bivalent Vaccine
Previous blogs reviewed and summarized COVID vaccination trends via UK and New South Wales (NSW) COVID Surveillance Reports. Published almost a year apart, the trends of each are in agreement. The findings demonstrated an increase in hospital admissions, ICU admissions, and deaths with increasing numbers of vaccination doses. These blogs can be accessed here: “UK…
Read MoreHow Much Vitamin D Should You Take?
The last blog, “Vit D Reference Ranges and How They Were Determined,” reviewed how “normal” ranges of vitamin D were determined, the ranges reported to support basic human physiology, the upper limit of dosing and the call from experts to raise the upper limit. The initial idea to investigate vitamin D sounded straightforward and was…
Read MoreVit D Reference Ranges and How They Were Determined
The last blog, Vitamin D Levels: How Much Can We Get Naturally, reviewed natural synthesis of vitamin D through the skin, the many variables that affect this process, and ways to optimize vitamin D production via natural sunlight. The optimal daily dose of vitamin D varies by individual. This blog will review serum reference ranges…
Read MoreVitamin D Levels How Much Can We Get Naturally
Vitamin D Levels: How Much Vitamin D Can We Get from Sun and Food. What Is Optimal? The last two blogs reviewed the hormone we call vitamin D, its role in the treatment of a multitude of diseases including autoimmune diseases, cancer, bone diseases, and cardiovascular disease. In the last blog, we learned the origins…
Read MoreHistory of Discovery of Vitamin D, Use of Vitamin D in Chronic Disease, Origins of Vitamin D Toxicity
It is always interesting to read about the origins of discoveries. The history of the origins of Vitamin D deficiency and its relationship to sunlight dates back millennia. The discovery and role of vitamin D in medicine starts with the disease Rickets, a condition in children characterized by a defect in bone mineralization leading to…
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