See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Menopausal Symptoms I waited to announce the emerging research regarding the safety of post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy for breast cancer patients suffering from severe menopausal symptoms until the research finally supported my belief that women have the right to receive the treatment that they need if they accept the risks of that treatment. The past year of research (2024-2025) has produced a significant am...
Apr 08, 2025•24 min•Ep. 683
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Last time we reviewed why interpreting your lab may lead you to the wrong diagnosis and treatment. Today we continue our review of each lab panel and why the reference ranges on your lab results may not be the “Healthy Normal Range” that you should compare your results to. Lab reference ranges are established with a one-size-fits-all mentality, ignoring the numerous variables that influence blood results. Have you ever t...
Apr 08, 2025•28 min•Ep. 682
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog There is a new federal rule for lab companies that requires them to report your blood tests to you as soon as they are finished, often even before your doctor has seen them. This rule, deemed unreasonable, was established by individuals without medical expertise (politicians), who know little about interpreting lab data or the workings of doctor’s offices. Sending your lab results to you before doctors can assess them is...
Apr 08, 2025•23 min•Ep. 681
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog The newest miracle drug for weight loss is changing the lives of thousands of people who have battled obesity for extended periods of time….These GLP-1 medications are also treating or preventing the diseases that go with long term obesity: Diabetes, Heart Disease, Joint replacements, Arthritis, Sleep Apnea, and Alzheimer’s Disease. Researchers are finding more indications every day for patients to take these weight loss...
Apr 08, 2025•21 min•Ep. 680
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Almost every week I hear from my male patients that their PCP doctor has scared them by telling them to stop taking testosterone pellets because their Hematocrit is too high. Alternatively, their doctor recommended a lower dose of T. These two recommendations are those doctors who don’t understand all the good that the testosterone is doing for these men. My male patients come to me for Testosterone pellets to treat thei...
Apr 08, 2025•12 min•Ep. 679
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog I am not sure if you play THE “WHAT’S THE DISEASE THAT I DON’T WANT TO HAVE GAME with yourself, but since I am a doctor I have spent a lot of time thinking about what diseases I do not want! I started my list in medical school when I witnessed what certain diseases can do to your life. Medicine has many cures and treatments, yet some diseases that are treated still can negatively change your life forever. Even though los...
Apr 08, 2025•24 min•Ep. 676
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog If you are receiving testosterone or estradiol hormone pellet therapy, BioBalance Health wants to know if you have any of the following medical conditions that may require you to take antibiotics before any medical or dental procedure that breaks the skin, including pellet insertions and dental cleanings. BioBalance Health is dedicated to providing safe and effective hormone replacement with pellets for both men and wome...
Apr 08, 2025•8 min•Ep. 675
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog If you feel ignored and unheard by your doctor or nurse practitioner, your feelings are correct! As a group women are not listened to and often dismissed as emotional and not smart enough to understand “complicated” medical information, by the Misogynistic American medical community, the US governmental agencies who make the rules for what women need. If you feel unheard and dismissed by your doctor, your impression is p...
Apr 08, 2025•22 min•Ep. 674
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog During our interview I reviewed her path through recovering from years of no hormones and discussed how dramatic her recovery was. Her symptoms included no libido and no orgasms, Painful intercourse from a dry vagina, fatigue, depression, troubles with memory, Insomnia, lack of motivation, dry wrinkled skin, alopecia, osteopenia, weight gain, loss of muscle mass and weakness, fibromyalgia, migraines, hot flashes, insomni...
Apr 08, 2025•26 min•Ep. 673
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Do you ache all over? Are you weaker every year? Shorter and more bent over? Are your clothes hanging off your shoulders? Do you walk slower and hold on to things as you walk? If you notice these signs in yourself or someone you love it means you, or they are becoming frail. As a physician I had to become a people watcher…. or more accurately an observer of the people around me. Even if you aren’t medical people, I am su...
Apr 08, 2025•16 min•Ep. 671
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog In my Anti-Aging-Longevity practice, one of the complaints my new patients tell me about is the fact that their hair is thinning, falling out or changing to a brittle texture, as well as the fact that their hair is turning grey. Hair DOES get thinner, coarser, and greyer as we age! That is a fact, and one I can’t fully explain to you, except that it happens to everyone! My philosophy is that each of us should work with w...
Apr 08, 2025•22 min•Ep. 672
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Are you menopausal and have any of the following symptoms? Hot Flashes Night Sweats Dry Vagina Painful intercourse Dry skin Lack of sex drive Lack of motivation Fatigue Depression and or anxiety Change in body composition, with fat collection in the abdomen Loss of Muscle Mass and strength Irritability Inability to remember names and places Decreased ability to problem solve Insomnia Arthritis Body pain These are all sym...
Apr 08, 2025•17 min•Ep. 670
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog The second set of myths about weight loss involve what we have been told by our federal government through the FDA and surgeon general, that is believed by most of us, but the motivation of the government is not generally for your well-being. Myth #7 Salt is bad for you, and you should limit your intake of salt to minimal amounts. A large study found that eating less than 3 grams of salt a day increases one’s mortality b...
Sep 16, 2024•23 min•Ep. 669
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog My medical practice, BioBalance® Health, allows me to hear all of the myths about how to lose weight, when I am in consultation with a new patient. All of my female patients and some of the men have at one time, or multiple times been fooled by the false promises of friends, doctors, and advertisers, about quick and easy ways to lose weight. If you have bounced around trying every diet out there on the internet and faile...
Sep 16, 2024•21 min•Ep. 668
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Dave Glover, the most listened to talk radio voice in the Midwest, invited me on his show last week to talk about BioBalance Health Testosterone Pellets for men and women and BioBalance Skin my medical esthetic spa. His show is on KMOX, the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals. Dave Glover and I have worked together for 10 years, and he is unabashedly my patient who has experienced the superiority of our medical care that is...
Sep 16, 2024•18 min•Ep. 667
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog 2024 has been the hottest summer of the decade and it is causing many of you to go to the ER with heat related sickness. There are several risk factors that may put you at high risk for illness relating to the heat. I have been present several times when someone collapses from heat stroke which is the most severe heat related illness. The heat can kill you if it progresses this far. It is interesting, athletes who won’t ...
Sep 16, 2024•20 min•Ep. 666
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog In general, I spend my time defending women and the fact that our problems and sexual physiology is ignored, by the governmental powers and physician organizations in the US, so I try to do my part to bring information to women about their hormones and the aging process. Today I am changing my focus to men and the way men’s normal sexual function is considered a “normal” and rarely discussed outside the men’s locker room...
Sep 16, 2024•19 min•Ep. 665
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog The medically accepted belief that testosterone is bad for men has finally now been superseded by a huge study from Australia that proves that men with healthy levels of Testosterone live longer and healthier than men with low Testosterone! All you men who have been told that testosterone is bad for you or will cause prostate c ancer by your doctor, you can tell you provider that he or she is out of date! At BioBalance H...
Aug 19, 2024•21 min•Ep. 664
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog On the last Heath cast #662 we talked about the choice of doing nothing when faced with symptoms of hormone deficiency and symptoms of aging, versus the choice to actively live a healthy life. I believe that concentrating on yourself as you age can save your lifestyle and or your life! Preventing illness as you age is as important as paying your taxes! An unhealthy living plan without replacing deficient hormones can lea...
Aug 19, 2024•26 min•Ep. 663
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog My goal for BioBalance Health® is to guide my patients to live a healthier life by offering them the newest preventive treatments, and safest hormone treatment available. My patients make an appointment with me and Dr. Sullivan for help with their current symptoms of aging and hormonal treatment to replace their missing hormones. They also receive a plan for unique preventive lifestyle changes to assist them in continuin...
Jun 06, 2024•25 min•Ep. 662
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog I bet you have heard the idiom, “There is no free lunch”, or “There is no medication without a side effect”, but did you know that medications that are prescribed by your doctor can have negative effects on your health that are never even discussed with you….so you should protect yourself by replacing the nutrients that your medications remove from your body, and that must be replaced for you to be healthy. Statins -→ CO...
Jun 06, 2024•21 min•Ep. 661
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog You are what you eat, and you use what food and drink you eat based on your genetics. Weight loss requires professional advice, direction and oversight. Combining receiving the best advice on what you should eat and drink as well as tailoring it to your metabolism and medical condition is what you should receive from your weight loss program. Before you embark on a weight loss program you need to know the following lesso...
Jun 06, 2024•29 min•Ep. 660
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog If you have hypothyroidism (Low thyroid), fibrocystic breasts, fatigue, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, hair loss, obesity, or high cholesterol then taking supplemental Iodoral can improve these diseases. These conditions have become an epidemic in the United States due to Iodine deficiency. My longevity medical practice is all about keeping my patients healthy so they can live not only a longer life but one with quality. ...
Jun 06, 2024•23 min•Ep. 659
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog There is a lot of New Medical Information that is important for patients to make healthy decisions about their care or the care of their loved ones that you won’t hear about on the news. For new research to reach you, the public, a researcher or a drug company has to spend a great deal of money for the public relations people to push information into the light. I compiled the research I thought you might want to know abo...
Jun 06, 2024•21 min•Ep. 658
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Last week one of my pellet patients asked me to see her daughter, even though I don’t see young women anymore since I began BioBalance Health for people over 40. I asked her why she couldn’t see her gynecologist and she told me that she was told that she had PMS and that was a condition that was treated by a psychiatrist! I have treated PMS successfully by replacing one hormone that is missing, Progesterone, two weeks a ...
Jun 06, 2024•21 min•Ep. 657
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog The Problem: I see women and men every day who are deficient in their own production of testosterone because of age, testicular trauma, removal of their ovaries, chemotherapy, chronic illness, and medications. The cause of testosterone deficiency is as varied as the side effects and benefits of every different type of testosterone. This means that when you hear or read a headline like the one that came out last week: “Te...
Jun 06, 2024•24 min•Ep. 656
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog T.E.D. a NEW painless high intensity ultrasound treatment that actually regrows 65% or more of your hair. It is the most effective treatment overall and really the most economic treatment with the least amount of time investment, no pain and best results. Unlike hair implants, you can’t tell you have had a treatment to make your “lost hair” grow again! The Problem of Hair Loss: Many of my patients (most of whom are over ...
Jun 06, 2024•19 min•Ep. 655
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Last time I talked about the ways you can keep your skin healthy and the products I have found that medical grade products are effective to keep skin looking young and healthy. My last Healthcast/Blog was about what you can do at home to improve your skin and look younger. This week we are going to talk about how to get the treatment you need to improve your skin if it is damaged and aging at the medical spa, and you may...
Jun 06, 2024•17 min•Ep. 654
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog You may be like I am, and you took your “young skin” for granted, because it had always looked good, healthy, and glowing. Sadly, the damage that causes wrinkles brown spots, age spots, and sagging jowls occurs years before the damage shows on your face! At age 40 I woke up, looked in the mirror and realized what I had been doing to my skin with baby oil and iodine plus 8 hours of sun a day, every summer, without sunscre...
Jun 06, 2024•19 min•Ep. 653
See all the Healthcasts at https://www.biobalancehealth.com/healthcast-blog Every day in my office I hear horror stories about how my female patients are dismissed by the doctors they trusted to help them resolve their problems such as: · Hot Flashes and night sweats · Loss of libido · Rapid weight gain · Brain Fog · Insomnia · Arthritis associated with lack of hormones · Anxiety/Depression starting in their late 30s · New irritability · New Migraine headaches · Lack of motivation · Fatigue Ther...
Jan 15, 2024•15 min•Ep. 652
