August 25, 2010 By

Growth Hormone Deficiency Tied to Obesity and Accelerated Aging in Young Adults

Due to the potential for abuse and high cost, growth hormone treatment in adults is the subject of much controversy. I believe that treating adults with growth hormone deficiency is many times an appropriate and beneficial choice. Firming up my conviction for treating adult growth hormone deficiency is a recent study conducted in the Netherlands [...]

June 11, 2010 By

Can Elevated Adrenal Hormone (Cortisol) Cause a Heart Attack?

The adrenal glands sitting on top of the kidneys make several hormones critical to life. The central part of the adrenal makes the hormone we refer to as adrenalin, technically from the group known as catecholamines. This is the stress responsive hormone causing rapid heart rate, sweating, increased mental alertness, preparing the body for “fight [...]

February 21, 2010 By

EMT Offers Advice for Coping with High Metabolism

While many members of metabolism.com struggle with low metabolism, fatigue and weight gain, there are those who struggle with the opposite. Being underweight can be as difficult to cope with as being overweight. Here is advice from one of our members who is an emergency medical technician, on how he has adjusted to this issue. [...]

February 10, 2010 By

More from the Mayo Clinic Diet: Overcome Weight Loss Barriers

Action Guide to Weight-Loss Barriers By the weight-loss experts at Mayo Clinic and Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H. Authors of The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat well. Enjoy life. Lose weight. Long term success with a weight program sometimes follows a bumpy, uneven path. Many obstacles can keep you from achieving a more healthy weight. Learning to [...]

May 27, 2009 By

Why we binge eat

Over eating and emotional eating is just another sign that you are in fact human.

November 25, 2008 By

Finally, Growth Hormone Treatment in a Pill?

 For years, false promises have been made about pills that produce therapeutic increases in growth hormone levels in adults. I countered those claims in a number of articles on this site  http://www.metabolism.com/2008/08/23/adults-receive-growth-hormone-treatment/. Recent scientific advances may have finally made this myth into reality. A recent study from the University of Virginia of healthy elderly individuals [...]

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