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And Other Writings by Dan Purser MD

Dan Purser MD 2/27/18 Dan Purser MD 2/27/18

Is a Vitamin Deficiency the Root Cause of Your Problems?

Low testosterone and may other symptoms could simply be caused by a vitamin deficiency - Dan Purser MD

I have several #1 books on Amazon™ bringing new patients into my practice as I use a step-wise approach. What do I mean by ‘step-wise’? I recently attended an education conference on testosterone pellets and their surgical placement since we occasionally use them with certain patients.

This conference was interesting because vendors were selling pellets from various pharmacies and to them everyone needed pellets. After a while I just started to chuckle and tell my partner, Dr. Kimball Crofts, that when you’re selling hammers, everything’s a nail.

The How to cross a river test

I once took a test on intelligence and they asked us to come up with ways to cross a river. I came up with 54. The average person came up with 14. For some reason I had the highest number – which surprised me. The professor explained that is showed brain flexibility and intelligence.

But now I watch my fellow physician’s thought processes becoming seemingly calcified and robotic. Honestly, they are as smart as me, if not smarter, but they are so swamped and overwhelmed they don’t have the luxury of time and patience that I do to look for root causes. I can, and do, take hours to look at each patient and consider what’s really happening with each patient.

In addition to more time, I am not at the mercy of insurance company rules and policies. The constraints of my Utah medical license and my own internal ethics control what I do (and my patient’s willingness to spend on tests) allow me to dig a little deeper.

How do men find a vitamin deficiency

I love looking at SpectraCell™ Comprehensive Nutritional panels to gather more data – to tell me if a vitamin deficiency can be a root cause. Numerous men come in with low testosterone and I ask them, “Why do you have low testosterone?”

They always look surprised, then I see a light dawn in their eyes. No one’s tried to figure this out or asked this question of them or for them before. Generally, I take a one- or two-hour long history, then check labs.

If a clear cause for their low testosterone (Hypogonadism) does not become apparent from their lab results or history, I suggest a SpectraCell™ Nutritional panel. It is not cheap and takes 3-4 weeks to get results back, but it is well worth it.

A number of young men with terrible SpectraCell™ results (significant vitamin deficiencies) came into my practice. The vitamin deficiencies ended up being the cause of their low testosterone. I took them off of their testosterone injections and their levels recovered naturally.

I see this with really bad osteoporosis cases (both male and female), too. If this isn’t dealt with appropriately, their osteoporosis will never go away. Patients think this is miraculous because usually a lot of doctors have tried to help them to no avail.

If in doubt, order a SpectraCell™ Comprehensive Nutritional panel as it could answer your questions.

Dan Purser MD 2/27/18 Dan Purser MD 2/27/18

Testosterone for Vaginal Dryness & Muscle Wasting in Women

Testosterone is an amazing hormone for women. In women, it's produced in the ovaries and helps with vaginal dryness

Testosterone is an amazing hormone for women. In men, testosterone is produced mainly in the testes, and in women, it's produced in the ovaries (when working properly) with a small amount made in the adrenal glands. Testosterone is a hormone found commonly in men and less so in women. Testosterone is a sex hormone that plays an important role in the health of both men and women.

In females, half of the testosterone is produced by the ovaries and adrenal glands. A healthy level of testosterone is also protective against bone disorders such as osteoporosis and HSDD (Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder) or low libido in women. Although testosterone is a male sex hormone important for sexual and reproductive development, it does much the same in women. Female testosterone can be increased or decreased depending on the needs of the women.

Menopause is a normal, natural event defined as the final menstrual period and usually confirmed when a woman has missed her periods for 12 consecutive months (in the absence of other obvious causes). Menopause is when the function of the ovaries ceases and she can no longer become pregnant. Hormonal headaches typically stop when menopause is reached and hormone levels are consistently low.

Perimenopause (the time around menopause) is different for each woman but usually, the progesterone levels drop first followed by testosterone levels. Libido drops and dryness of the eyes, mouth, and vagina occur shortly thereafter.

Female muscle strength comes from an ample amount of female testosterone. Muscles can hold up for a while longer but begin to decline and shrink in women.

The only option for replacing testosterone at the age of natural menopause or surgical menopause is a compounded cream (not made by big pharma companies). Oral testosterone, long used by women, increases risk of breast cancer more than 200%. A compounded testosterone lipodermal cream (by a compounding pharmacy) can be applied between thighs and sometimes intravaginally to reduce vaginal dryness, recover the libido, and end HSDD.