Maybe all it needs is a little gas to run right. The case of the month is an actual patient of The Turek Clinic. He came into the office the day before I left town to lecture to endocrinologists from around the country about novel ways to increase testosterone in men at their annual meeting in Nashville. The T Patient “Doc, I’m kinda down about things at this point,” he begins. “I wasn’t feeling right so I got checked out and my T (testosterone) was low. I was started on T shots every other week, a couple of months ago and it has not been fun. I think it’s helping but it’s such a damn hassle to get the shots in the office all of the
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How much sleep do older adults need?
Belinda Setters, MD, MS, AGSF, FACP Director, Mobile ACE & Transitional Care Programs Associate Clinical Professor Geriatric Medicine & Palliative Care Robley Rex VA Medical Center When most of us talk about sleep needs, we usually think about children. We know children need a certain amount of sleep to stay active and healthy and to grow into adulthood. Children have a bedtime and parents (and grandparents!) work hard to ensure they are in bed on time and get the sleep they need every night. But most of us don’t think about how much sleep we get or need as we grow older. And yet, sleep is just as critical to our health as we age. As we age, our brains may tell us to go to
Does He Have What I Had?
A rose by any other name is still a you know what…as per Shakespeare The case of the month is an actual patient of The Turek Clinic. “Doctor Turek, thanks for talking with me. I’ve been married to John for 30 years and lately it seems like his sex drive which has been pretty even-steven is now much lower. Not only that, his erections don’t last very long and he’s grumpier now. He reminds me of the way I felt 10 years ago when I went through menopause. Do men have a menopause?” Great Question Well, to be honest, the answer is: “Yes, they kinda do.” It’s not called that, but the terms “andropause” or the “male climacteric” have been used to describe it. In
Late Night Smartphone Use Affects Productivity
Research suggests that you should put away your smartphone at the end of the work day in order to be more productive the following day. Michigan State University business scholar, Russell Johnson and colleagues discovered that workers that tried to continue working on their smartphone past 9:00 p.m. were more worn out and less engaged during the following work day. “Smartphones are almost perfectly designed to disrupt sleep,” said Johnson, MSU assistant professor of management who acknowledges keeping his smartphone at his bedside at night. “Because they keep us mentally engaged late into the evening, they make it hard to detach from work so we can relax and fall asleep.”According to research, at least 50{c754d8f4a6af077a182a96e5a5e47e38ce50ff83c235579d09299c097124e52d} of U.S. adults own a smartphone. Many of them