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The Many Health Benefits of Donating Blood
Written by Wellness Club on September 24, 2018 – 1:34 pm -By Dr. Dana Myatt An estimated 40,000 pints of donor blood are needed each day in the U.S. for patients with cancer, those undergoing orthopedic surgeries, marrow transplants and cardio vascular surgeries, people being treated for inherited blood disorders and those with acute injuries resulting in blood loss. There are other reasons why a blood […]
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Testosterone For Men – It’s Really Safe After All!
Written by Wellness Club on April 7, 2016 – 1:57 pm -By Nurse Mark Poor testosterone – it has been so misunderstood, maligned, and feared for so many years now that any attempt by a doctor to use testosterone therapy is met with regulation and resistance from the powers-that-be and most doctors just won’t bother. Who needs the hassle? It is easier and less trouble […]
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Seven Not-Surprising Health Updates From 2015
Written by Wellness Club on January 13, 2016 – 4:45 pm -As many of you know, Nurse Mark and I read the medical news every single day. There isn’t much in the way of a “breakthrough” that we’d ever miss. We even know about the “pseudo-breakthroughs” — those lab rat studies that are over-hyped in importance. Because of this, some of these hot-off-the-press findings you have […]
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Vitamin D And Prostate Cancer: A New Connection
Written by Wellness Club on September 29, 2015 – 3:52 pm -By Nurse Mark We’ve written about Vitamin D so much that you might have become jaded about the subject. But Vitamin D is an amazing vitamin – hormone that almost daily has new studies showing its value in treatment of an ever-widening array of diseases. For all you men out there “of a certain […]
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Does Testosterone Therapy Increase Heart Attack And Stroke Risk?
Written by Wellness Club on November 8, 2013 – 1:58 pm -By Nurse Mark A recently published study in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association) has caused no end of worry among men. It seems that the study is quite clear in it’s conclusions that testosterone therapy does indeed cause an increased risk of death from all causes, including heart attacks and strokes. […]
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