Good-bye to Tulsa for now

October 2015  What a bittersweet time. This was my last week seeing patients at the Integrations Health Center, in Tulsa, OK. An end of an era. I came here 7 years ago, lecturing with Eldred Taylor MD, on estrogen metabolism, to a conference of OBGYN and family practice docs. Dr. Jerome Block, an internist, was in the audience. A small but very fit bald well-dressed gentleman with huge thick black glasses. Dr. Block walked up startling close to my face and said, "You look like you belong in Hollywood but here you are talking on estrogens like a scientist well versed [...]

5 effective tips to reprogram your body’s weight & health We have been trained by dietitians and media to think that we have to eat three squares a day or we shall rot, wilt or not achieve health. So three times a day we eat. Often hungry or not. Or have we just trained our appetites?  We eat at restaurants, often too much, shovel in food, and have instructed ourselves to think that this is what living in a human body suit means: we must eat 3 meals a day. But this may not be so. And this may be keeping [...]

(And 9 situations that may benefit by testing and detoxing or trial of progesterone replacement in both males and females) Progesterone is mankind’s dear friend. This hormone “activates” sperm so it can meet, mate, and mingle with eggs.  It prepares the uterus to support a birth and it supports much of the whole process of pregnancy. It even protects the brain and nervous systems in both the young and old. But many new chemicals are enemies of this hormone. And today a new progesterone “blocker”—called anti-progestins—showed up in a fascinating Italian study run on females. This progesterone hijacker is found in [...]