YOU: The Owner's Manual

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Contributors are experts and board-certified physicians in cardiology, oncology, and cancer genetics, vascular health, urology, orthopedics, chiropractic, and pain medicine, including an infectious disease specialist, a podiatrist, a hand surgeon, and a sleep specialist, as well as experts in the emerging fields of sexual health and rejuvenation medicine. The book also provides chapters on emotional and mental health, as well as fresh insights on relationships. The 21st Century Man is the book all men will want after turning 40 to feel great, look good, and have better physical intimacy for the rest of their lives.Every man over 35 needs to own and read this comprehensive health guide for men. 60 board-certified doctors and men’s health experts offer advice and insider secrets that men over 35 need to recover and maintain their physical, mental, and sexual health to feel great, look good, and have better intimacy. Emphasizing prevention and early intervention, The 21st Century Man has sections on the most common causes of mortality, nutrition, exercise, aesthetics, addiction, mental health, relationships, lifestyle and health insurance. There is an extensive section on sexual health and sexual medicine written by an all-star cast of physicians.Lead author, Dr. Judson Brandeis, voted best urologist in the SF Bay Area for a decade, is a surgeon, researcher, physician educator, and a caring clinician. A graduate of Brown University, Vanderbilt Medical School, UCLA Urology residency, and a Harvard research fellowship, he specializes in the emerging fields of men's sexual health and rejuvenation medicine. Dr Brandeis packed the book with vital information on sustaining health and intimacy, presented from a non-judgmental point of view.

Men's health is important! The 21st Century Man is a comprehensive and medically accurate men's health book written by an elite team of 60 doctors and health experts. This essential book reveals insider secrets that men in midlife and beyond need to recover, rebuild, and maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and sexual health.
Contributors are experts and board-certified physicians in cardiology, oncology, and cancer genetics, vascular health, urology, orthopedics, chiropractic, and pain medicine, including an infectious disease specialist, a podiatrist, a hand surgeon, and a sleep specialist, as well as experts in the emerging fields of sexual health and rejuvenation medicine. The book also provides chapters on emotional and mental health, as well as fresh insights on relationships. The 21st Century Man is the book all men will want after turning 40 to feel great, look good, and have better physical intimacy for the rest of their lives.

Every man over 35 needs to own and read this comprehensive health guide for men. 60 board-certified doctors and men’s health experts offer advice and insider secrets that men over 35 need to recover and maintain their physical, mental, and sexual health to feel great, look good, and have better intimacy. Emphasizing prevention and early intervention, The 21st Century Man has sections on the most common causes of mortality, nutrition, exercise, aesthetics, addiction, mental health, relationships, lifestyle and health insurance. There is an extensive section on sexual health and sexual medicine written by an all-star cast of physicians.

Lead author, Dr. Judson Brandeis, voted best urologist in the SF Bay Area for a decade, is a surgeon, researcher, physician educator, and a caring clinician. A graduate of Brown University, Vanderbilt Medical School, UCLA Urology residency, and a Harvard research fellowship, he specializes in the emerging fields of men's sexual health and rejuvenation medicine. Dr Brandeis packed the book with vital information on sustaining health and intimacy, presented from a non-judgmental point of view.

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Dr. Dana Dorfman wrote her book WHEN WORRY WORKS to help parents manage the stresses of adolescent achievement culture and to make decisions which align with their values, rather than their anxiety. WHEN WORRY WORKS responds to one of the primary sources of the nation's worsening adolescent mental health crisis – achievement pressure.

WHEN WORRY WORKS responds to one of the primary sources of the nation’s worsening adolescent mental health crisis – achievement pressure. Burdened by the mounting pressures on today’s youth, parents seek ways to strike the balance between supporting their teens’ current well-being while also setting them up for future success. Eager to take action and to manage their escalating fears, parents inadvertently and unknowingly exacerbate the problem by overlooking their own parental achievement anxiety.

Based on thirty years of clinical practice and her experiences raising her own teenagers in New York City, the work demonstrates that when parents become aware of their individual anxieties and learn to effectively manage them, they are empowered to make values aligned, rather than worry driven parenting decisions. Dr. Dorfman provides practical evidence-based parenting strategies, exercises, and reflective prompts to guide parents through a process to constructively apply to their day-to-day parenting decisions.

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WHAT IS GLAUCOMA and how can you treat it?

Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in African Americans and people from the Caribbean, and the simple way to prevent the devastating effects of glaucoma is to maintain regular eye visits.

“Eyesight or human vision is one of the most important senses,” Dr. Laroche said. “By protecting the eyes, people will reduce the chance of blindness and vision loss while also staying on top of any developing eye diseases, such as glaucoma and cataracts.”

Dr. Laroche is a glaucoma specialist who takes patient education seriously. He wants people to be aware that glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration and retinopathy can begin to surface between the ages of 40 and 70, and that any vision changes should be evaluated by your eye doctor immediately.“Over time, these diseases can lead to blindness, so it’s best to address them as soon as possible,” said Dr. Laroche. “We have new treatments with earlier surgical options that can help preserve (or restore) their vision with faster recovery times.”

What is Glaucoma? Glaucoma is a disease of the eye characterized by three components:
1) Damage and loss of the retinal ganglions cells and optic nerve described as cupping
2) Loss of visual field
3) Usually increased eye pressure (pressure may be normal at times)

Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness in the world today. There are over three million people with glaucoma in the United States today and over 1 million do not even know it. There are over 80,000 people that go blind from glaucoma every year. It is the leading cause of preventable blindness in African-Americans and people from the Caribbean.

People at risk for glaucoma include the elderly, blacks, and people with elevated eye pressure primary relatives with glaucoma, persons with high myopia, high hyperopia, history of eye trauma, and diabetes. Blindness from glaucoma is insidious. In most cases, there is no pain, and the loss of vision occurs slowly from peripheral to central. The central reading vision is not affected until the end thus most people do not realize it until they have lost a substantial amount of their peripheral vision. In low or normal pressure glaucoma the central vision may be affected first.

In many cases, glaucoma optic nerve damage occurs from high eye pressure. Nerve damage can usually be stopped or slowed by lowering the eye pressure. Most glaucoma treatment, with medicines, laser, or conventional surgery, is designed only to lower the eye pressure. Some eyes with glaucoma optic nerve damage continue to deteriorate despite having the lowest possible eye pressures. It is not known why this happens. Intensive research around the world is now directed at understanding the cause of the damage in these patients and to develop new treatments to preserve the optic nerve.Many different eye disorders cause high eye pressure. After measuring the eye pressure, your ophthalmologist attempts to determine the cause of the elevation. Nearly always, some form of “clogging” or blockage of the drainage of internal fluid within the eye (aqueous humor) causes increased eye pressure. Since the eye continually produces this fluid, obstruction of the drainage causes the eye pressure to increase. Almost any eye disorder associated with aging, inflammation, bleeding, injury, tumor or even birth defects can raise the eye pressure. However, in most cases of glaucoma, the eye has no specific abnormality and is said to have primary open-angle glaucoma. In other cases, the eye may be unusually small or exhibit other minor shape abnormalities that cause closed-angle glaucoma. In closed-angle glaucoma, the drainage system is totally blocked instead of just being clogged. At least fifty different mechanisms have been described that can raise the eye pressure, but all produce similar damage of the optic nerve. All methods of treatment are designed to lower the eye pressure to a level that will prevent further optic nerve damage.

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As many parents, caregivers, and teachers raising and working with teenagers find, powerful emotions come with the territory. And with so many of today’s teens contending with academic pressure, social media stress, worries about the future, and concerns about their own mental health, it’s easy for them—and their parents—to feel anxious and overwhelmed. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In Dr. Lisa Damour’s important new book, THE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF TEENAGERS: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents (Ballantine, on sale February 21, 2023), parents will gain the confidence they need to guide their adolescents through this challenging developmental phase.

Dr. Damour’s long-standing interest in the emotional lives of teenagers took on a new urgency and relevance after the emergence of COVID-19. The pandemic created an adolescent mental health crisis—one so severe the U.S. Surgeon General issued a rare advisory on protecting youth mental health. While distressing for people of all ages, COVID-19 presented unique challenges for teenagers. The forced social isolation derailed the central developmental markers of adolescence: spending time with peers and becoming increasingly independent. Add on to that the fact that many parents felt—and still feel—ill-equipped to help their teenagers manage overwhelming emotions. But there is a silver lining! The pandemic has made us realize that we must change how we talk about what adolescent mental health is—and is not—and what parents can do to raise emotionally resilient teenagers.

In THE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF TEENAGERS parents will learn:

·       What to expect in the normal course of adolescent emotional development and
when it’s time to worry

·       Why teens (and adults) need to understand that mental health isn’t about “feeling good”
but about having feelings that fit the moment, even if those feelings are unwanted or painful

·       Strategies for supporting teens who feel at the mercy of their emotions so they can become psychologically aware and skilled at managing their feelings

·       How to approach common challenges that come with adolescence, such as friction at home, spiking anxiety, risky behavior, navigating friendships and romances, the pull of social media,
and many more

·       The best ways to stay connected to their teens and how to provide the kind of relationship that adolescents need and want

THE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF TEENAGERS is a game-changing book that will transform the current conversation about adolescents. With clear, research-informed explanations alongside illuminating, real-life examples, Damour’s timely new book gives parents the concrete, practical information they need to steady their teens through the bumpy yet transformational journey into adulthood. I look forward to discussing your interest.