Low hormone levels: - One female reader writes in wanting to know if there are any others like her who suffers from too-low levels of oestrogen and progesterone. According...

Andropause: the male menopause - I am very interested in osteoporosis and the andropause. I read that antiresorptive drugs, such as palmidronate, are actually counter-productive for b...

Hope for Alzheimer's? - The pharmaceutical companies have spectacularly failed to move beyond the ‘chemical imbalance’ view of Alzheimer’s disease. But new evidence points to...

Is memory loss inevitable? - No, memory loss is not inevitable as we age, but we’d be very fortunate to avoid it happening. Memory starts to decline imperceptibly in early adultho...

The best alternative treatment for alzheimer’s disease - As every other unruly or spirited child is today labelled as having ‘ADHD’ (attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder), so many older people who start to...

Staving off old age memory decline - * Don’t isolate yourself. A MacArthur Foundation study found that keeping close contacts with others and remaining involved in other people’s lives pr...

The best alternative treatment for . . . male pattern baldness - Around 95 per cent of all hair loss is caused by androgenetic alopecia, or ‘male pattern baldness’. This form of hair loss, which can also affect wome...

Alzheimer's disease - Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most misdiagnosed of modern diseases. True AD causes specific brain damage: microscopic senile plaques, brain...