Many people gain a small amount of weight every year. But did you know most people gain that extra weight over the holidays? To be fair, the average holiday weight gain is usually just one pound. Those pounds add up year after year if you continuously brush them off. Here at Horizon Internal Medicine, we…
BOTOX® is a neurotoxin prepared from the bacterial compound onabotulinumtoxinA. It’s used for medical purposes to treat specific muscular disorders, and in the cosmetics industry to remove wrinkles by briefly paralyzing the facial muscles. While BOTOX® has been around since the 1970s, it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as…
Nearly 40% of men 45 and older have low testosterone, and an estimated two million women experience a decline in estrogen as they transition through menopause each year. While a decline in sex hormones is natural as you age, levels that are low can cause significant symptoms. You may have heard that hormone replacement therapy…