Dr. Charles Kalstone, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida, tells their patients to take the hormone therapy as long as they want the benefits. Dr. Kalstone affirms the benefits of the therapy will start to lose 3 years after stopping the treatment. He prefers to discuss the risks and benefits of the hormone…...

Dr. Manuel Torres, Family Medicine Physician at Baptist Health Primary Care, explains different types of calories (from fat, from carbohydrates, from protein) have different hormonal influence. "If you predominantly eat a carbohydrate heavy diet, we're 90, 80, 60, 70 percent of the calories that are coming in from carbohydrates. That favors our hormonal profile where…...

Women who think they’re pregnant, have problems with vaginal bleeding, have had certain kinds of cancers, have had a stroke or heart attacks, have had blood clots or have liver disease should not take hormone therapy. Dr. Debra Kenward, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida, considers the treatment should be individualized and discussed…...

Frankie Powell, Patient Care Supervisor of Labor & Delivery at Homestead Hospital, explains the hormonal changes in postpartum depression: "When you become pregnant, you have an increase in the hormones progesterone and estrogen, and when you deliver the baby, you have a dramatic drop in those hormones, and that can cause a chemical imbalance in…...

More than one million people in Florida are affected by asthma. Joseph Scott, Chief of Emergency Medicine at West Kendall Baptist Hospital, says if you are an asthmatic, you probably know what your triggers are. "The weather is changing, there is dirt out there, leaves, dust, people with chainsaws, burning issues, so asthma is a…...

Dr. Javier Perez-Fernandez, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine Physician with Baptist Hospital and West Kendall Baptist Hospital, explains pulmonary hypertension happens because of the lack of oxygen in your blood. He also says other cause of pulmonary hypertension is when the vessels are thicker than normal and the area where the blood goes through becomes…...

Dr. Rodney Benjamin, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine Physician with South Miami Hospital, says Bronchial Thermoplasty is a way to induce high degrees of thermal energy into the bronchial tubes and shrink the smooth muscle that constricts in the airways. "We use a bronchoscope to go through the nose under some anesthesia. We blow out…...

Dr. Javier Perez-Fernandez, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine Physician with Baptist Hospital and West Kendall Baptist Hospital, explains pulmonary fibrosis is a spectrum of diseases and it means your lungs have advanced aging significantly. "They are older than what they should be and with more wrinkles. They get less elasticity, less ability to get the…...