Platt Wellness Blog

In a perfect world we could probably get everything we need by eating healthfully but it is not a perfect world. 

Traditionally, no thought is given to adjusting a man’s hormones until he approaches middle age, when he may start having problems with erectile dysfunction.  Compare this to women, who may start receiving hormones at the start of puberty. Does this mean that men’s hormonal well-being should be ignored until they develop sexual dysfunction?  My answer to this, of course, is no.  As is clear by now, I am a great believer in preventive medicine. Knowledge of hormones for men can help to prevent the onset of prostate cancer, diabetes, obesity, and heart attacks. Testosterone is a hormone produced by the...

Gentlemen...listen up...as a man gets older, estrogen levels start climbing from the age of fifty and are at their highest point in men in their late 60’s and certainly higher than those found in women of the same age

“Vitamin D will not prevent a patient from contracting the virus, but it may reduce complications and prevent death in those who are infected.”  Vadim Backman, biomedical engineer