Postings in the category Hormones

Liposuction and BHRT in Case of Overweight and Lipedema

Do you remember our patient who suffers from massive overweight, lipedema, and possibly diabetes? In the meantime she has lost another 6 kilos, so altogether 14 kilos, after three high-volume liposuctions and consequent medically-assisted weight loss with bioidentical hormones (BHRT) Soon her fourth liposuction will be performed. She is happy and highly motivated to continue weight […]

Is Hormone Therapy Useful When Hormones Are in the Normal Range? (Part 1)

A patient writes: So I think that hormone therapy is not useful, since all laboratory values are normal and I do not want to artificially influence values that are within the normal range. This is a common fallacy! The reference values of the laboratories are clearly too broad from an anti-aging point of view (all […]

Eyebrows like Cara Delevingne Thanks to Hair Follicle Growth Factors?

Women plucked their eyebrows beyond recognition until recently. Now thick and bushy eyebrows à la Cara Delevingne are in. Like most of the models who belong to the Crème de la Crème of the model business, Cara distinguishes herself with one special characteristic – her significant distinctive eyebrows. The British supermodel is starting a new […]

Weight Loss using Liposuction and Bioidentical Hormones

Do you remember my patient who was suffering from massive overweight, lipedema, and possibly diabetes? In the meantime she has lost 8 kilos after three high-volume liposuctions, consequent medically-assisted weight loss using bioidentical hormones (BHRT)! That’s not enough, but it’s a great success which will make it easier for her to lose even more weight. […]

BHRT for Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome (Part 1)?

A female patient with Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome (AFS) mailed me this: I am on low dosage progesterone and DHEA applied transdermally. I am not aware that these can weaken the adrenals? My reply was that low dosage progesterone and DHEA are useful in healthy women around 30 to 35 with strong adrenals but are neither […]

Sexuality – A Product of Hormones?

In terms of sex men and women differ remarkably. Meanwhile, this is even scientifically proven. In the male brain sexual stimuli provoke significantly increased brain waves in the so called amygdala, a region which is responsible for motivation and action, than in female brains. Is this perhaps because of the fact that men and women […]

Bruce Jenner: Is He the New Michael Jackson?

Once he took Gold for America at the Olympic Games in Montreal. Nowadays he is obviously spending time rather at the beauty doc than on the sports ground. Who knows Bruce Jenner from his decathlon career will hardly recognize him at his performance in the reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. This is all […]

Cameron Diaz: Tired of Botox?

As the daughter of a Cuban and an American Cameron Diaz turned her appearance to account already in her youth when she started a modelling career, before she changed to Hollywood many years later. Without having any experience Cameron was able to cast a spell over the producer of The Mask (1994) and got her […]

Breast Augmentation for Transgender People à la Conchita Wurst

At least since May 10th, 2014 everybody knows “her”: Conchita Wurst sang herself into people’s hearts with her ballade Rise like a Phoenix at the 59th Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen. A honorable performance – because up to now only the world-famous Udo Jürgens accomplished to get the title for Austria in the sixties with […]