[MoeVonB61]

Dr. Luna Beck in Summerfield. Right across from the Walmart on 441. She does saliva tests initially to test for levels. Bioidenticals are compounded creams...
17820 SE 109th Ave, Summerfield, FL 34491

Phone352) 307-7940

[Abster]

Originally Posted by courtyard

Dr. Kalpana Desai (352) 259-6949 in The Villages prescribes BioIdentical Hormones. However, she's a Primary Care Physician, not a GYN. I have had no experience with her...just saw her ad in The Sun newspaper.

I'm a patient of Dr. Desai and absolutely love her. She's got a lovely personality, takes as much time as you need, and her job is obviously her passion. I have previously done Bioidentical Hormones and stopped when we moved. She is working with me on a couple other minor health issues and then I will resume the hormone replacement through her. She and her staff are great and I would recommend them to anyone.

[Abster]

Originally Posted by MicheleE

Can someone tell me the advantages of Bio Identical Hormones. I've heard so much about it and wonder if it's right for me?

My past doctor, Kim Zipper has a great website that explains a lot of anti aging issues - male and female. Her website is titled "Fountain of You". She's excellent but sadly not in this area.

[Dancing Queen]

In the Villages, OB-GYN Associates of Mid-Florida, P.A. (352) 259-5649
In June I will be going to a Sotto Pelé trained Female Nurse Practitioner who works for GYN's.
The office is over literally next to the the Villages Regional Hospital. Don't follow a gps it will get you lost, just go to the hospital, and follow the signs for the doctors suites on the property.
I was quoted $200.00 for the estrogen/testosterone implants. I take oral generic Progesterone which is covered by insurance with a small copay, and my labs are covered for checking my levels several times a year so far. I have been doing this 4 years up north and couldn't be happier.

[MoeVonB61]

Dancing Queen, can you pleased give me more information. I just had my FINAL visit with Dr. Luna Beck. She went over my test results but never listened to my lungs or examined me (I have allergic asthma!!) This is the 3rd consecutive time.

Are you getting bioidentical hormones OR synthetic?? Is this also a Internal Medicine Specialist? ANYBODY WHO HAS RECOMMENDATIONS please advise. I may try Dr. Desai but would prefer a Dr. who can also do yearly PAPS. THANKS

[Abster]

Originally Posted by courtyard

Dr. Kalpana Desai (352) 259-6949 in The Villages prescribes BioIdentical Hormones. However, she's a Primary Care Physician, not a GYN. I have had no experience with her...just saw her ad in The Sun newspaper.

You don't have to be a GYN to prescribe Hormone Treatments. My past Hormone Treatments weren't prescribed by a GYN (Dr. Kim Zipper/Melbourne, FL). Dr. Desai is actually one of the best doctors I've found. Both of these doctors do a complete lab work up for Hormone Replacements not a mouth swab and are most capable.

[Dancing Queen]

mrich61,
Sent you a private message.

[Dancing Queen]

MicheleE
and
massapequagirl
I sent you both private messages

[Debfrommaine]

I have been working with Dr. Desai as my primary doc and she is good in that capacity. I elected to try hormone replacement. 3 tubes for $200, not covered by insurance. I did not finish the last tube because honestly there was absolutely NO difference anyway, anyhow so the last tube will be thrown in the trash!

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

See Commentary below on Somers' book

By David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, FACS,
a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute specializing in breast cancer surgery, where he also serves as the Medical Director of the Alexander J. Walt Comprehensive Breast Center and Cancer Liaison Physician for the American College of Surgeons Committee on Cancer.

Academically, he is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, where he serves as Chief of the Section of Breast Surgery, and is a member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Cancer Biology. Additionally, he serves as Treasurer for the Institute for Science in Medicine. An investigator whose primary research interests include tumor angiogenesis and the role of glutamate receptors in promoting the growth and metastasis of breast cancer, Dr. Gorski also runs an active research laboratory and has recently taken an active interest in the problems of breast cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

Dr. Gorski first became interested in pseudoscience and “alternative” medicine around 2000, when quite by accident he wandered into the Usenet newsgroup misc.health.alternative and began critically examining the claims there. Since then, he has accumulated considerable experience refuting quackery and pseudoscience online."

".....I first found out about Somers’ book about a month and a half ago and was fortunate enough (I think) that one of my readers who had a review copy of the book sent me a chapter list. The reason I wanted a chapter list was because I was really curious just who these doctors were whom Somers had interviewed. In particular, back then I predicted (and hoped) that one of the doctors would be one whom we’ve met before. It was. Can you guess which one? Think about it. What major study did I blog about in the middle of September? What form of cancer quackery has been covered so ably by Kimball Atwood since the very beginning of this blog? No, no, you don’t have to go back to the archives and search. I’ll tell you:

Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez. He’s the second featured doctor who is “curing cancer,” right there in Somers’ book in Chapter 6!

That’s right, one of these doctors who are “curing cancer” is a quack (in my opinion, of course) whose “protocol,” which includes 150 supplement pills a day topped off by a couple of coffee enemas per day, was recently shown to be worse than useless for pancreatic cancer and, indeed, based on a recent study, far worse than conventional treatment...."

Suzanne Somers’ Knockout: Dangerous misinformation about cancer (part 1) « Science-Based Medicine

See Credentials of Other Editorial Board Members of Science-Based Medicine here:

Steven P. Novella, MD – Founder and Executive Editor « Science-Based Medicine

Great post.

Everyone knows that Susanne Somers is a "space cadet".......whose books are so shallow and filled with worthless information which will only make these cutting edge "doctors" abundantly rich at the expense of the women's future health. Use your God given brains.

Good nutrition is a great idea. Hormone replacement is not.

Consider the latest batch of age defying drugs shown on the nightly news commercials.........

Just listen to all of the side effects listed by the pharmaceutical companies , mostly which involve cancer, heart and stroke.......while displaying these idiotic photos of women with long silver locks merrily posing on the screen. It looks like they escaped from the mental ward.

"Madison Avenue" at its best , meaning marketing and advertising.

They are marketing a "dream" of eternal youth. Ditto for the ones with the woman "skipping" on one foot. My husband and I crack up at that one each evening. We are married almost 50 years and I guarantee if I acted anything like those women, it would not be our anniversary coming up.

Obviously, we live in the REAL WORLD where each generation subsequently ages.

Actually, none of my lady friends know anyone who fits the category of the women depicted in any of these "commercials"......nor men.

A few years ago it was the same bunch "skipping" along the golf course.....like schoolgirls. The only place I have ever seen such behaviour was in the dementia ward and they were unfortunate women in their second childhoods with alzheimers...........these t.v. commercials seem to depict older women (and men) as a bunch of idiots.

Sad. They will not be posing suggestively once the abundance of hormones leads tragically to a cancer diagnosis. We can control what should not put into our bodies. We can think for ourselves..........and not follow like sheep.

It's not secret that the medical community has known for a very long time that birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, etc. can contribute to cancer in women. Now, they have all the men on it too.

Is everyone afraid to age gracefully and naturally these days?

Some of the most beautiful women (and men) that we have known were not afraid to age........they found the quintessential "fountain of youth" simply by being young at heart and certainly not on a continuous quest to recapture their fleeting youth.

Whether it be botox, plastic surgery, hormones or whatnot.........many like Suzanne Sommers end up looking petrified. Like in petrified forest.

Or emaciated like Suzanne Lucci on Devious Maids (a spinoff of Desperate Housewives by same writer/producer.) She's a great actress but could use a hot pastrami sandwich or two.

The secret of eternal youth is within.........a sense of humor, a good heart and soul, compassion for the needy and the ability to remain young at heart while still being , acting and looking "mature".

We get our "fix" and joy from seeing the next generation of babies, toddlers, school aged children and young adult grandchildren act "youthful". Friends our own age and older, we enjoy the mature variety.

To everything there is a season........why not just embrace it and age naturally?

[Patty55]

I don't know, in my country "aging naturally" is known as letting yourself go.

[PR1234]

Just read in the Daily Sun this morning, that there will be a Bio-Identical Hormone Specialist holding a seminar tomorrow morning June 6th. It will be held at the Waterfront Inn @ 10AM. The ad says to RSVP 561-537-0537.

[graciegirl]

Bioidentical hormones: Are they safer? - Mayo Clinic

[graciegirl]

that Hormone replacement therapy was considered one of the triggers for breast cancer.


Hormone Replacement Therapy Breast Cancer - WebMD

[PR1234]

Just read in the Daily Sun this morning, that there will be a Bio-Identical Hormone Specialist holding a seminar tomorrow morning June 6th. It will be held at the Waterfront Inn @ 10AM. The ad says to RSVP 561-537-0537.