Science may not have the answer to obesity for everyone, but there are answers and recommendations for each individual person.

We spent some weeks in Europe recently. We were in Spain, Italy, and Sicily. We observed that we rarely saw obese natives. The people that we saw who were obese seemed to be mostly tourists from America and parts of north Central Europe.

We became curious about what people ate and how they lived and ate in ways that were different from what we see in America.

Our thyroids are in constant danger from toxins like fluorides in our water and bromides in our bread and baked goods and many other various toxins. Thyroid function is absolutely necessary to be well and age in a healthy manner. If you have the symptoms of hypothyroidism, then finding a doctor who will treat you by normalizing your symptoms and blood work with the right type of thyroid at the proper dose with the proper supplements to optimize your thyroid replacement.

Thyroid replacement is a difficult process primarily because doctors have been trained for decades to make a decision about thyroid replacement by looking at just one lab, TSH.

One of my greatest fears is that as I age I will lose my capacity to think quickly and to remember the facts that have been important to me personally and professionally. Dr. Maupin worries about forgetting words that she knows and uses regularly.

She identifies this as a common reality and as the first step for the onset of dementia. It is not a standalone indicator of dementia, but it is one of the identifiers we use to decide that an elderly person is beginning to lose some executive function.

This week we are talking about a term that is new to both of us, Sarcopenic Obesity, more commonly called “skinny fat”. As we age our bodies begin to reduce their production and maintenance of testosterone. This reality leads to the stages of deterioration that we used to call the aging process.

Testosterone replacement helps defeat insulin resistance so that our bodies can process the sugars from carb intake. Testosterone improves the porousness of the cells so that insulin can get into the cells and be burned as energy rather than be blocked by the cells and turn into fat.

As women age, their bodies begin to make more estrone which makes them look and feel old. They put on weight and their bodies get more fat. Pellets do not cause this problem.

For many years doctors were trained and believed that if a man obtained testosterone replacement therapy, it would lead to an increase in the size of their prostate gland and would increase the likelihood that they would develop Prostate Cancer.

Doctors are using their personal knowledge and experience to make treatment decisions regarding testosterone replacement after cancer treatment for prostate cancer.

Our discussion this week covers some of the specific questions people ask when they begin to consider whether or not they are candidates for hormone replacement therapy.