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Most insurance companies use your BMI (body mass index) to asses health risk, but the BMI can be misleading. BMI is a simple calculation using height and weight to risk stratify individuals. The problem with using body weight is that body fat, muscle, organs, bone, and total body water make up your weight. The big variables ( Weight Loss and Health Institute Orange County California   ) in calculating your BMI are how much total body fat and total muscle mass you have. If your muscle mass is high, are in great shape, and work out, your BMI could be misleadingly high.Athletes and military personnel, who are in great shape, often get misdiagnosed as overweight or obese due to a high BMI, yet they are healthier and at less risk of dying than the BMI would have you believe. If you have a normal BMI, it doesn’t mean you are necessarily healthy. You could still suffer from a condition I call “skinny-fat”. What is skinny-fat? Skinny-fat is a condition where an individual has a normal...

Clinical guidelines recommend Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) for men suffering from clinical symptoms of low testosterone when low Testosterone levels are documented. The most common symptoms of low testosterone include low sex drive/libido, low energy/fatigue, erectile dysfunction, and loss of muscle mass.  Currently there are 2.4 million men, ages 40-69, who meet the criteria for Low Testosterone (Hypogonadism).  With such large numbers of men qualifying for treatment, the question of safety arises.  Since the leading cause of death in men is cardiovascular disease, does prescribing testosterone therapy contribute to heart disease? Contrary to current thinking, we know from studies that Low Testosterone ( Testosterone Replacement Therapy Orange County ) is associated with a higher risk of cardiac events.  Most studies looking at testosterone replacement and cardiovascular disease have been relatively small and have shown some conflicting resu...

There are plenty of advertisements and commercials talking about erectile dysfunction. By now we all know that Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the inability to achieve a full or consistent erection for satisfactory sexual activity. It’s common after forty and by the time men reach fifty years of age, half of men have it.                                   What’s often left out of these commercials is that 80% of erectile dysfunction cases are due to chronic diseases such as Diabetes, Vascular Disease, and Testosterone Deficiency or a side effect of a medication used to treat these chronic conditions. The other thing that is left out is that if you can identify the cause, you can sometimes treat it or at least prevent it from getting worse. When it comes to erectile dysfunction ( Erectile Dysfunction treatment orange county California ), lifestyle choices have a significant impact on outcomes. We add...