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According to the latest buzz on the Internet, Gweneth Paltrow teamed up with her doctor, Frank Lipman, writing, "Everyone I know is knackered (tired), me included. But I didn't imagine that there could be health problems associated with not getting a good night’s rest. I recently read a book called Light’s Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival by T.S. Wiley, which talks about the negative cumulative effects of sleep deprivation (ageing, hormonal imbalances, etc.) I asked one of my doctors, Frank Lipman, for his opinion."

Doctor Lipman then offers suggestions on ways to sleep better, and writes, doctor writes, "In addition to a healthy diet and regular exercise, getting enough restful sleep is the most important thing you can do for your health. Proper sleep is one of the keys to looking and feeling your best, yet it’s estimated that up to 70 per cent of Americans are chronically sleep deprived."

He goes on to give much advice on how, "Chronic sleep problems interfere with your body’s natural rhythms and rob it of the time it needs to restore itself. The incidence of many diseases including diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks and depression increases with a lack of sleep. Recent research has even shown a connection between poor sleep and weight gain. We simply weren’t built to just go, go, go."

If you would like to purchase the book click on Lights Out at Amazon.

You can also find another reference to her comments at the following link:

http://www.hollywood.com/news/Paltrow_urges_fans_and_friends_to_get_some_sleep/6830029

Link: http://www.thewileyprotocol.com/Hormone-Replacement-Therapy/

Fibromyalgia syndrome affects an estimated 10 million people in the U.S. Around 75 to 90 percent of the people who have fibromyalgia are women, who are affected physically, mentally and socially. It is not a disease, but a syndrome - a collection of signs, symptoms, and medical issues that usually occur together, but are not related to one identifiable cause. Severe fibromyalgia can be debilitating as it interferes with basic activities of everyday life.

Often women in menopause confuse the many symptoms of hormone imbalance with those of conditions like fibromyalgia or even chronic fatigue. But the good news is that women with fibromyalgia who are taking the Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormone replacement therapy are finding relief.

Fibromyalgia is often seen in families, among siblings, or mothers and their children. Diagnosis is usually made between the ages of 20 to 50 years, but the incidence rises with age so that by age 80, approximately 8 percent of adults meet the American College of Rheumatology classification of fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic widespread pain, abnormal pain processing, multiple tender points, fatigue, psychological distress and sleep disturbances. Whereas hormone imbalance symptoms are primarily caused by the incorrect relationship between progesterone and estrogen levels in the body, and can have a dramatic effect on health, resulting in a number of the symptoms of hormone imbalance that are similar to those of fibromyalgia.

The primary symptom of fibromyalgia is chronic widespread body pain, and most people with fibromyalgia also experience sleep disturbances, moderate to extreme fatigue, cognitive difficulties, and sensitivity to touch, light, or sound. Many individuals also experience a number of other symptoms and overlapping conditions, such as lupus, arthritis and irritable bowel syndrome. Symptoms also include poor stamina and profound exhaustion. However it is important to note that fibromyalgia symptoms may vary widely from one person to the next.

T.S. Wiley says, “It’s actually diminishing hormones that are the cause of the classic lower back pain common in middle-age people. The backache of old age is really just a case of threadbare sciatic nerves. Scientists found that natural progesterone increased in the expression of the gene that remyelinates the nerves in the rats lower back. At the main nerve junctions of communication, like the heart and brain stem, wires start to fray when hormones levels fall off. Without estrogen to peak and cause ovulation, there’s no progesterone. Without progesterone to remyelinate nerves, peripheral nerve bundles that are farthest from the brain fray first. The biggest ones, farthest down, after the one in the base of your neck, is at your tail bone area in the lower back.”

Interestingly many of the women on bioidentical hormones have experienced relief from symptoms like insomnia, muscle aches and pains, chronic fatigue, depression, and many other typical fibromyalgia symptoms.

Once such example is from Linda, talking about her sister Kathryn, who takes the Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormones. She said, “She has recently run out and has been suffering the consequences of not having the hormones in her system. (Her fibromyalgia is acting up; she has osteopenia in all her joints – her pain levels are highly escalated when she’s not on the Wiley Protocol).”

Alternative therapies, such as massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, herbal supplements, myofasical release and even yoga, can also be effective tools in managing fibromyalgia symptoms and helping improve quality of life. But even more recently, the doctors of women taking bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, the Wiley Protcol, see relief among patients. Dr. Delmi Behr, a general surgeon in Pottstown, PA, explains how the Wiley Protocol is different from other hormone replacement therapies and how it helps even uncommon menopausal symptoms and fibromyalgia.

Sources: National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA) and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR); Sex, Lies, and Menopause.

Link: http://www.thewileyprotocol.com

Here's something to think about now that winter has settled in... it is from Lights out, by T.S. Wiley, a book well worth the read fr better health and well being.

If you stay up too late, your hormones shift and cause your appetite to change. The sugars you crave send your insulin up to create the insulin resistance you need to get fat. On your way to tubby, you convert all teh carbohydrates you've eaten into cholesterol as VLDLs, and you retain water, which alters your blood pressure. At this point, any doctor would tell you there's heart disease on the horizon. We agree.

But we're going to tell you the first symptom of heart disease isn't high blood pressure and high cholesterol, it's depression.

When you live in prehybernartion mode, but never get to go dormant, you go crazy. You go crazy because you have stayed up so long. You see, in nature, staying up that long would mean you've eaten half of the planet, which is way more than your share. And you are most likely no longer fertile from swimming in all that insulin. Therefore you have no business living. so nature takes you out by altering yoru reality so you won't want to live anymore. You actually go crazy so you will take you out.

It's the "less work for the hostess" principle manifested in Mother Nature... The way nature effects this mechanism in your body is by ultimately creating a bipolar state of mind. Nature doubles the odds of your suicide with a bipolar state, inasmuch as your mania means a complete loss of impulse control.

There are major players and trendy buzzwords - serotonin, dopamine, GABA, and melatonin - to identify the loops in the machinery, but the bottom line is still the same. Sleep controls food supply and reproduction, which controls your mental state.

Link: http://www.thewileyprotocol.com/

The hidden truth burried at the bottom of the syndrome of antidepressant use is that the "sleepless" phenomenon that creates a higher-than-normal serotonin brain levels responsible for the depression we're all experiencing simultaneously causes heart disease.

The media, doctors, and researchers will all tell you that fat people are more likely to have heart attacks because they have high cholesterol and high blood pressure - from ebing fat. And everybody knows that fat people are fat because they eat fatty foods.Fat people do have high cholesterol and high blood pressure that lead to heart attacks, but eating high-fat food has nothing to do with it. That's the lie they're hiding.

Fat people just get too tired to live.

Sleep controls your appetite for carbohydrates, the consumption of which controls water retention (to change your blood pressure) and insulin production (which facilitates cholesterol production). No sleep, no control. And seratonin builds up. When you don't sleep and you eat carbohydrates all day, week, month, year, decade, you swim in chroinically high serotonin because it never gets to turn into melatonin. That's where the depression comes in, and the actual heart disease.

Source: Lights Out, by T.S. Wiley

Link: http://www.thewileyprotocol.com/content/view/434/288/

Loss of hormones begins in your late 20s, if you are a man. As men age, they experience an increased loss of male hormones including testosterone and may experience lack of energy, restless sleep and night sweats. In men this condition is called andropause, similar to what women experience as menopause. Today, there are plenty of benefits of testosterone restoration.

“Overall, those men who are experiencing andropause often notice a decline in competitive interests, sex drive and overall enthusiasm for life,” said Author T.S. Wiley, who has spent a lifetime studying and researching hormones, and three years ago began teaching environmental endocrinology to medical practitioners. "Some men also have an increase in allergies, heart palpitations, loss of muscle strength and their gate - the way they walk - changes to shuffling, like an old man."

Perhaps even more importantly are the overall health benefits of supplementing testosterone. In an extensive January 17th article in the New York Times Magazine about the topic of andropause in men by by Tom Dunkel, the reporter quotes Dr. Florence Comite, a Manhattan endocrinologist.

"Numerous studies, Comite says, show that low testosterone contributes to a loss of lean muscle mass, bone density, energy and libido, thereby making older men more susceptible to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, sexual dysfunction and, possibly, depression."

That's one reason why T.S. Wiley developed the Wiley Protocol for Men™ – Biomimetic DHEA and Testosterone Restoration. When men age, they often acquire androgen and testosterone deficiency that goes unrecognized.

Some men in their forties, and sometimes younger, begin to lose their libido, or sex drive. A man's testosterone levels begin to decline from the age of about 25 and continue to decline until death. To hear what happens as you age, listen to author and hormone expert T.S. Wiley on andropause.

Testosterone is an androgenic, or male-orientated hormone, produced in the testicles with a masculinising influence in the development of puberty, as well as associated secondary sexual characteristics such as the change of his voice, a beard, aggression and sexual libido, or sexual appetite. In health it circulates at high concentration in the blood of males from puberty onwards.

Medical research has shown that restoring androgens to optimum levels can provide significant improvement in mood, increased energy and sexual function. A multi-year study shows mean total testosterone levels down 30 percent in men ages between 25 and 75 and free-testosterone decreased 50 percent.

The New York Times article also states, "Testosterone is a naturally produced anabolic steroid, best known as the male sex hormone. But Comite and a growing minority of physicians regard it as motor oil that keeps bodies running smoothly. For testosterone to trigger a cellular response, receptors must be present to receive its coded messages. Surprisingly, testosterone receptors are highly concentrated inside the heart, indicating its larger biochemical role."

The problem has become so much a part of our aging baby boomer population, that one of the latest trends includes couples hormone therapy, as evidenced by two 25-year veteran medical practitioners, Dr. Barbie Barrett and Dr. Andrew Jurow of Burlingame California. As their video says, this includes treating men. Hear what they have to say about the Wiley Protocol for Men with testosterone.

Jurow said, "The Wiley Protocol for Men does a good job, so it lends itself to couples therapy quite well. The couples part of our practice is five or ten years old... you get them balanced with the Wiley Protocol and they just respond so well."

The Wiley Protocol for Men is based on the premise employed in the original Wiley Protocol (28WP) biomimetic hormone restoration therapy (BHRT), the Wiley Protocol for Men replicates additional hormone rhythms. As with the original Wiley Protocols, we recognize that the body’s rhythms work in tandem with nature.

Benefits of testosterone and using the Wiley Protocol for Men are better sleep patterns, increased energy, increase in libido and overall zest for life. Restoring the body's normal balance of hormones can make a man feel strong, healthy, energized and happy again.

The Wiley Protocol for Men restores lust, sleep, muscle mass, and bone health, and helps to reduce depression. Overall, restoring a man's normal balance of hormones can make men feel strong, energized, happy and healthy.

Male hormone restoration is spreading by word of mouth among friends as well as couples in their 40's and fifties.

For more information about male hormones including the Wiley Protocol for Men with testosterone, email caren@thewileyprotocol.com.