Archive for 'Metabolic Disorders'
Men, Low Testosterone And The Risk For Diabetes
Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Some Fast Facts:
Men with diabetes have lower testosterone levels than healthy men
Testosterone replacement therapy is readily available and seldom utilized
Testosterone is critical for mental, physical and sexual health in both men and women
Low testosterone is linked to diabetes, obesity, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, depression and high blood pressure
Simple cost effective screening tests are available [...]
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Finally The FDA Finds That Supplemental Vitamins—”can be useful”
Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
Earlier this month the Food And Drug Administration released a consumer advisory regarding the use of supplemental vitamins. To everyone’s surprise the advisory admitted that vitamins “can be useful” and that “there are many good reasons” to consider taking them! As a physician that practices “preventing” medicine, I couldn’t agree more.
Vitamins are and always will [...]
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Why I Quit Counting Cholesterol: Confessions Of A Medical Heretic
Posted on 24. Jan, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
–Thomas Henry Huxley
At one time or another we have all held certain beliefs that later turn out to be not true at all. Most are innocent lies like the tooth fairy or Easter bunny and ultimately no major mental paradigm [...]
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Heart Disease: It Doesn’t Have To Happen
Posted on 24. Jan, 2009 by Kerry D Friesen, M.D..
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION?
Once in a great while new scientific information arises that revolutionizes a field of medicine.
THE FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY
In 1948 in Framingham Massachusetts, 5127 men and women were enrolled in a study that has continued on to the present day. More recently, under the direction of William Castelli, M.D. , Medical [...]
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