As I mentioned last month, I attended the Spring Congress of the American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine entitled: Brain Awakening. One of the sessions featured Dr. Joseph C. Maroon, Heindl Scholar and Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh…

In April, I attended the Spring Congress of the American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine entitled: Brain Awakening. One of the sessions featured the American psychiatrist, Dr. Daniel G. Amen speaking on how to supercharge your brain, reverse memory loss and…

As I was preparing for a recent talk on hormones, I came across a rather startling statistic: the incidence of death from breast cancer.  Depending on which statistic you look at, mortality rates have either not changed at all over…

When Meredith* (name changed at patient’s request) first came to my office after a recommendation from her pharmacist, she hadn’t had a full night’s sleep in over two years. She was on several medications, but none were working. I soon…

I am often asked by patients when they should stop their hormone medications. Previously, it had been recommended on the traditional side to try to taper or stop hormone medication after being on them for 5 years. However, many women…

My name is Jo-Anne Binns, I’ll be 55 next week. I started taking bio identical hormones in my 40’s having peri-menopausal symptoms. I originally heard about these safe hormones via Oprah and Suzanne Somers raving about them in television interviews and subsequently…