Hormones and Breast Cancer

For Jeannette when your doctor says: You have breast cancer, so you have to stop taking hormones………. Jeannette: What’s a hormone? Dr. Odom’s Answer: A chemical substance, formed in one organ or part of the body and carried in the blood to another...

Growth Hormone

What is Growth Hormone (hGH)? Growth Hormone is a protein, a string of 191 amino acids [1], that is produced in the pituitary gland of the brain. It is not a steroid.hGH is released from the pituitary in pulsatile waves lasting minutes throughout the day, but the...

Doctor Supervised Weight Loss ​That Works

​Historical Perspective The following essay will give you my experience and approach concerning weight loss that I have developed since I first began this type of therapy in May of 1995. At that time, Fen-Phen was all the rage, with people reporting dropping massive...

DHEA

Dehydroepiandrosterone, or DHEA for short, is a steroid hormone, and one considered basic or elemental in human physiology.What is a steroid? A steroid is a relatively simple molecule that has a chicken wire appearing basic skeleton of connected carbon atoms with...

Current Use Of Phentermine In A Multi-Modal Weight Loss Program

​Purpose Of Weight Management One corollary to dealing with patient desires to become more healthy is the treatment of the current epidemic of obesity [5]. I have practiced bariatric medicine [8] since 1995 including wide experience in the use of various weight loss...

COVID-19 Virus: Prevention of Illness

Almost all the effort that you hear daily regarding this virus is to prevent its spread. And, yes, it is highly contagious.​But, I believe that regardless of slowing its spread, eventually, everyone will receive this virus.So, below I have information about the virus,...