From the category archives:

Hormone Hacking

Hacking Your Hormone Levels – On Oprah?

August 25, 2009

Women are really interested in hacking their hormone levels. Even Oprah is doing it – from the article in Newsweek:
“After one day on bioidentical estrogen, I felt the veil lift,” she wrote in O, The Oprah Magazine. “After three days, the sky was bluer, my brain was no longer fuzzy, my memory was sharper. I [...]

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“Caution – May Cause Oily Anal Discharge!” WTF?

August 23, 2009

Drug side effects – they can sound funny, unless they are happening to you.
At the end of every drug commercial they list the side effects. After a while you start to tune them out, like your average smoker tunes out the giant warning on a pack of Marlboro. It just becomes ‘noise’. May cause drowsiness, [...]

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Tofu is turning you into a chick, bro….

August 23, 2009

OK, flame away – I know that there are two sides to this argument, but this one was just so funny that I had to post it.

There is a growing feeling that low testosterone is a 21st century epidemic among men in the developed world. One lab that does hormone level testing (ZRT Lab) released [...]

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Is Testosterone The “Success Hormone”?

August 16, 2009

Testosterone – the success hormone?
There is a growing body of evidence to support the theory that low T levels make men less self confident, less likely to take risks – and perhaps less successful at work?
A University of Cambridge study examined the testosterone levels of financial traders, and found a strong link between their testosterone [...]

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