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Prostate Cancer - What should You do?

What is the Prostate?
Above is a diagram of male genital anatomy.  The prostate is the beige circular structure below the bladder in the purplish color.  The prostate produces fluid that assists in ejaculation because the semen contained in the seminal vesicle is a very small amount.  The fluid of the prostate nourishes the sperm, protects [...]

15Mar2010 | Bruce Bair | 8 comments | Continued
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Cholesterol and Your Health - Ask an Expert

In this edition of Ask an Expert on Blog Talk Radio I answer questions about the blood fat that sparked a huge industry. One of Pfizer’s drugs for this problem was selling 4 billion dollars worth a year!
When you finish listening you should be able to answer these questions:
What is Cholesterol? Triglycerides? HDL? LDL?
How [...]

12Mar2010 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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A Super Habit that matches any Superbowl Athlete

May I have your attention for 5-6 minutes?  I want it because I want to make a point that will benefit your health.  There are two things I can teach you to do that will transform your life. This blog post and Youtube video are about one of them.
I have said many times that your [...]

10Feb2010 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Fructose - good or evil?

Follow up on Dr Robert Lustig
In a recent blog post I embedded a 90 minute video produced at the medical school at UCSF. The video featured a lecture by a pediatric endocrinologist on staff there by the name of Dr. Robert Lustig M.D.  Dr. Lustig is a specialist in the system of organs secreting hormones [...]

4Feb2010 | Bruce Bair | 8 comments | Continued
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Are all diets the same - Macronutrient composition vs total calories

Macronutrients are Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats.  How much we eat of each one comprises our diet.  Does it matter how much of each we eat? A study done in 2008 and published in the New England Journal of Medicine says it does not.  They say it is just about total calories. I agree, you have [...]

20Jan2010 | Bruce Bair | 3 comments | Continued
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Health Questions - What are you concerns?

Health is not the absence of disease but the end product of all your habits, physical, emotional and intellectual.  I am regularly asked by patients about what they can do to avoid acute problems in their health and improve some of their chronic problems. They want better health and almost always I recommend they begin [...]

7Dec2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Ticks, Tick bites and Tick realted Illness, part 3

This is the third and final part of the series with Dr. Marcia Herman-Giddens D.P.H., adjunct Professor of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  We finish our discussion about TIC-NC, tick removal, prevention of tick related illness and when is it safe to go into the woods.  This section experienced [...]

 
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30Nov2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Ticks, Tick Bites and Tick-related Illnesses with Dr. Marcia Herman Giddens

Part one of this 3 part series was published on Tuesday, November 24.  This is the second part of our discussion about ticks and their effect on humans.  We discuss the difficulty in diagnosing Lyme disease, STARI or what some call Southern Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses.

 
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27Nov2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Dr. Marcia Herman-Giddeons discusses Ticks, Tick bites and Tick-related Illnesses

Dr. Marcia Herman-Giddens D.P.H. is an adjunct professor at the
school of Public Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.  She is also a founder and President of TIC-NC (tick-borne infection council of North Carolina). TIC-NC is a non-profit organization whose mission is to inform the public and work with the state in developing [...]

 
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24Nov2009 | Bruce Bair | 2 comments | Continued
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Tamiflu the choice for H1N1is available for children

I recently read a headline from a medical news feed that claimed Tamiflu was not available in a liquid form for children.  It is supplied like many pediatric medicines in a powder that can be mixed with water and taken as a suspension.  There have been periods of time in our community when not every [...]

2Nov2009 | Bruce Bair | 1 comment | Continued
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