Who hasn’t seen those ads for “Low T” and others suggesting that low testosterone is the biggest problem in men’s lives. What is the truth? How can women better communicate with men about their health? We are going to Take on this Testosterone issue and get to the Truth. Thankfully, we have an expert on this topic in Dr. John La Puma. Homework for this week’s #DadChat is Dr. La Puma’s article in The New York Times, Don’t Ask Your Doctor About “Low T.” Win a copy of Dr. La Puma’s new book Refuel.
John La Puma M.D. is a board-certified internist and a professionally trained chef. Dr. La Puma is co-founder of ChefMD®, inventor of GlutenFreeQuiz.com, and director of CHEF Clinic®. Dr. La Puma is a NY Times best-selling author twice, for ChefMDʼs Big Book of Culinary Medicine (Crown, 2008) and RealAge Diet (HarperCollins, 2001). He wrote the latter with Michael Roizen, M.D, with whom he taught the first cooking and nutrition course in a U.S. medical school, at SUNY-Upstate.
Dr. La Puma also wrote the recipes for Dr. Ozʻ New York Times #1 YOU the Ownerʼs Manual; has written and hosted two PBS Specials; and co-hosted the national cable weekly series Health Corner for Lifetime TV for over 100 episodes, with Leeza Gibbons and Joan Lunden. He currently hosts ChefMD Shorts with Dr John La Puma on PBS, broadcast nationwide.
His new book is REFUEL® (Crown/Harmony, 2014), a simple, effective 24 day eating plan to boost menʼs testosterone drug-free, and to help women who want to help a man get healthy, because men donʼt diet, men refuel. He sees patients and is based in Santa Barbara, California. Visit Dr. La Puma’s website.
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#DadChat Takes ON Testosterone with @johnlapuma Thursday at 6pmPT/9ET
Do you wonder/worry about Low T – Low testosterone? That’s our #DadChat topic Thursday 6pmPT/9ET
@johnlapuma helps us understand Testosterone at #DadChat Thursday – join us!
