Women suffering from extreme PMS or, clinically known as PMDD (premenstrual dysmorphic disorder), will find comfort in knowing that there are solutions to all the discomfort. I chatted with Dr. Manny of FoxNews.com Q&A to discuss the natural alternatives to this challenging and uncomfortable condition. View the solutions to PMDD by clicking

March is National Nutrition Month so I am resending out a few thoughts about nutrition.  Many health problems are caused by poor nutrition and many of them can be treated with proper nutrition.  It is amazing how little emphasis is given to nutrition in traditional medical education.  Although nutrition is a complex

Medical Mondays – You ask the questions and our highly trained bioidentical hormones experts will post your answer LIVE! Q: I am 42 and have taken birth control for the majority of my life. I stopped taking it when I was 35 and trying to have children. I am starting to feel

Suzanne Somers’ new book, Sexy Forever: How to Fight Fat After Forty is the modern-day guide for discovering your personal and perfect diet for weight management and anti-aging.  Somers describes how toxins and the widespread use of processed foods have contributed to the obesity epidemic, heart disease, diabetes and a host of

The diva of looking and living ageless, Suzanne Somers, has released her new book, Sexy Forever: How to Fight Fat After Forty. The pages are filled with the top reasons to live a preventive lifestyle – she discusses the toxins hiding in our food supply, why eating clean is not just about

February 24, 2012

Suzanne Somers does it Again!

Suzanne Somers’ new book, Sexy Forever: How to Fight Fat After Forty is another wonderful tribute to her quest to spread the word about the benefits of preventive medicine. This book offers tips for balancing your hormones, recharging your metabolism and detoxifying your life! Prevention is the name of the game and

Suzanne Somers launched her new book today, Sexy Forever: How to Fight Fat after Forty. She is also offering a valuable supplement to this book – a collection of recipes to get you started and keep you on track!  This is a definite must-read for anyone who is looking for  the best

The Food and Drug Administration is an agency of the US department of Health and Human Services.  The approval of pharmaceutical drugs is one of the agency’s many duties.  A drug that has met the Agency’s criteria via testing and review, is stamped “FDA-Approved.”  Those drugs which have not met criteria, sadly,

February 13, 2012

About My Practice

I want to welcome you to BodyLogicMD of Columbus. I am Dr. David Garcia. As A hormone expert, I will work with you to optimize your well being with Bio-identical hormone therapy and nutrition. My goal is to help you become the best you can in regards to mood, energy, libido, sleep,

This is harder than I thought it would be for me. Unfortunately I passed a couple of kidney stones on Friday which has me a little slowed down still. Eating raw is somewhat difficult when you are used to cooked, hot food. In addition, I have been used to eating more processed

February 3, 2012

Raw food

Marilee and I are now on the second day of our twice yearly detox. We decided to “go raw” this time and so we are eating only raw food till the end of the month. Lots of juicing and vegetables and fruit and raw protein powder. In addition we are purchasing some

January 21, 2012

Sleep issues revisited

A very common recurring problem with our patients at BodylogicMD of Sacramento is that of sleep disturbances. Many times this is improved by repleting progesterone that is often diminished in women during menopause or peri-menopause. Sometimes, however, the patient might have problems with nighttime mind chatter, and might need extra melatonin, magnesium,

January 20, 2012

The Golden Years

“If these are the golden years you can have them.” How many times have I heard that phrase while seeing a patient in the Emergency Department? It’s a common theme: a person works hard most of their life, sacrifices, gets a nice nest egg going for retirement, then gets to the point

January 17, 2012

Diabetes Mellitus

Today I read about about a famous person who has had Diabetes for several years. It got me to thinking why Diabetics are treated with the meds they are. There is a class of medicines which works the most naturally of any of the medicines, i.e., like bioidentical hormones do. One, in

Back in November I wrote a blog about the ‘big three’ supplements I recommend being a quality multivitamin/mineral, fish out and Vitamin D3. Let me expand upon that to push for ONLY PHARMACEUTICAL GRADE supplements. What does that mean? Pharmaceutical grade means at that all the nutrients and minerals are CHELATED, or

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