Health & Wellness

New guildlines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first pap smear until they're 21 years old. Hasn't anyone heard of HPV?

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reaffirmed that women SHOULD get mammograms at 40 defying those BS recommendations of that bogus task force. The American Cancer Society must be pleased.

Kate Moss takes the heat for saying, "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels". Betty, Christina and I debated this last night and we get her point.

The US Department of Health and Human Services commissioned a task force to study mammograms.  Their findings: women don't need mammograms until their 50s and even then we only need a mammogram every two years.  The cherry on top: we don't need to do self breast exams either.  Why would you discourage people from examining their own bodies - something that takes no time and no money - when it could mean the difference between life and death?

And they're promoting their findings all over the place - The Today Show down the line.  The argument is that for every 1900 women who undergo a mammogram only 3-4 will have breast cancer.  In other words, 3-4 female lives aren't worth the expense.

What do people think is sexy?  A rosy complexion.  What gives you a rosy complexion?  Eating fruits and vegetables.  I just heard Eric say a "hell yeah". 

In a study were people were asked to rate an individuals level of attractiveness, researchers have found it was all about skin tone (another study confirmed these findings -"glow" and "radiance" were the key indicators of "beauty" even over symmetry).  An individual with a rosy complexion was rated as the most attractive even over those with a "golden" complexion so you can save some money on spray-on tans. 

Once again, I write blog posts like these to show that there's more to incredible sex than how to do it better. All the hot skills and sophistication in the universe won't matter if you have health issues that put a stop to your sex life, or make it not what it could be.

Here is a link to a thorough article on how your gut (small intestine) and its state of healthy bacterial vs unhealthy has a big effect on your sex life. From things that make you lose your sex drive, like Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS, chronic urinary tract infections in women, and vaginitis.

I could not wait to get my pole dance project under way. This is truly an understudied environment and I'm all about being the pioneer! I began a month long conversation with the studio manager at the New York City location about if and how the school would want to be involved in my project. It was during much phone tag with my contact at the school that I discovered they were having a Halloween party for their students. I decided this was a perfect opportunity for observation of the students at this school and a full on sub-cultural experience.  After I put out a few more unreturned phone calls in order to get on the guest list for the event I did what any intrepid investigator would do, I went ahead and crashed the party.

As a sex life consultant, I gather reasearch in more avenues than just how to have more powerful orgasms and better sex. Hypothyroidism makes a negative impact on your life as a whole and especially your sex life. From anxiety production that makes it harder to focus on our partners and enjoying them, loss of libido totally or intermittently, on to physical issues like cold hands and undesirable weight gain. For me, I walk this detailed path on wellness because I want a body and mind that are capable of the sex and living that I can do now well into my senior years. Also, when you take amazing care of yourself and take it seriously, your loved ones are not burdened unnecessarily by a family member or friend in failing health.

In continuation of my previous blog on my vitamin supplements.

Short version, I came up as having low-grade hypothyroidism last year, and it turns out that O-type blood tends toward that already. Doctor told me to eat lots of sea weed to get iodine in me. That's the richest source we have available to us for iodine. However, it's not the most palatable or concentrated. It is the most bio-available. I wanted my thyroid fixed eariler, so I found this supplement:three drops of Homecure brand's "Thyactive" bioavailable iodine supplement.

Three drops a day, and it doens't taste bad either! Taken with a meal. Here's what happens when you dont have iodine, short version ;-)

This is one of the best fitness quotes I've ever heard. Spoken by Jack Lalanne. He's the juicer guy who's 93 and still doing pushups with his arms over his head. I can't lift myself into the starting position for that!

I decided a while back that I want Jack's model for my future. I want 32 to be a snot nose brat compared to what I'll be at 72 and beyond. Here's another article from mercola.com that focused on this extraordinary individual and paths to wellness.

Here is the info and signup page for my co-presentation on food and sex with Meredith Sobel of www.sobelwellness.com. She's a recent friend who approached me for part two to her first well-received workshop on how sex and food go together. The only issue was a fair number of people got back to her and said the sex info could have been richer, more robust. Like a Sicilian marinara. So Meredith called me. ;)

I've been harping about how badly people eat since the seventies when I began to tune into eating fresh whole foods and to avoid packaged or frozen foods. I was a vegetarian for a while, did juice fasts, got colonics and came off sugar, white flour and all dairy products. I'm far from perfect these days but so far, I've never eaten at a McDonalds or any other fast food restaurants. It's no accident that at 80, I am not taking any meds.

At last, I've found the perfect work out class where I can put in the least amount of time and get the best results: Physique 57.  Betty will totally want me to take this post down but I think that it should remain under the "staying sexual" argument.

If you want to have great sex your entire life, then you have to exercise.  I can't imagine sex without my back muscles.    Physique 57 is designed to lengthen your muscles for a leaner look and, let's face it, when you're toned your sexual energy is right there.  Kelly Ripa is a huge fan of Physique 57 and I'm a total convert.  If you're in nyc, it's a must.

Please support Planned Parenthood's effort to overturn the Bush Rule limiting access to health care information by clicking this link and submitting your email comment.

Just before leaving office, the Bush administration released a rule that limits the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate reproductive health information and services. The rule allows doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to simply withhold information about, for example, birth control and HIV testing and treatment. It also allows health care workers to deny any basic health care service based on their personal biases.

In order to overturn the Bush administration rule, President Obama had to write a new rule that must undergo a period of public review. Take the next step and urge everyone you know to submit their own comments: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/issues-action/birth-control/title-x-family-planning-funding/bushs-attack-womens-health-still-bad-medicine-23106.htm

It's more than just hot climates that produce more baby girls (so click on the title & read the entire article).  Evolution is still alive and well.  Researchers have found that in bad times, ie hot climate, war, famine etc., you're more likely to give birth to a baby girl because you want to insure at least 1 grandchild and a girl is optimal.  Conversely, in good times a boy is optimal because he may give you more grandchildren.  In the current global environment, I see alot of baby girls running around.

People who live in the tropics have more baby girls compared with those living in other parts of the world, work reveals. It may be down to the hotter weather or the longer days, says US researcher Dr Kristen Navara in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

She says this climate may change miscarriage rates and sperm quality. Or there may be some evolutionary advantage to having more girls than boys if you live by the equator. Experts already know that the birth rates of boys and girls vary across the globe. The results could indicate an adaptive strategy employed by humans.

Here's a quick yet valuable post for my brothers out there, and mayhaps sisters too. I'm swamped with office work right now but will get back to my regularly scheduled programming after I'm finished doing taxes.

Some people have been asking me for my workout program it and here it is below. I didnt pull off the development claims he makes, but I have made development progress above and beyond my previous plan:

http://amaranth.lebrunfit.hop.clickbank.net/