Age-Related Muscle Loss: A Serious Health Problem with Simple Solutions
As we age, we often accept changes in our body and health as being part of the aging process. The fact is though, we don’t have to accept these changes. For men, the amount of muscle we have, or our strength is often connected to our virility and stamina. This being said, the condition sarcopenia... CONTINUE READING→
Six Important Ways to Let a Man Know He’s Sexually Desired
I have a secret I need to confess, up front. For most of my life I believed that there was something wrong with me because I wasn’t always interested in sex and ready to jump at every opportunity to have it. Like many boys reaching adolescence, I was very interested in sex and talking to... CONTINUE READING→
Boys and Girls: Nature vs. Nurture
Dear Mr. Dad: My husband and I have a boy and a girl and we try as much as we can to treat them the same way. We don’t limit our daughter’s wardrobe to pink and our son’s to blue and we’ve banned gender-stereotyped toys from the house. But our daughter still behaves like a... CONTINUE READING→
Sperm Counts: How Low Is Too Low if You Want To Be a Dad?
We humans like to count and label things. We order the stars above us into constellations. We organize time into hours, minutes and seconds. We name the colors of the rainbow. We track how many steps we take with widgets on our wrists. Maybe it gives us a sense of control over our big, wide... CONTINUE READING→
What Men Need to Know to Find and Keep the Woman of Our Dreams
It’s been said that “women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So, each is inevitably disappointed.” I’ve been a marriage and family counselor and therapist for more than 40 years and one of the most common concerns I hear from men is this: “Why can’t I find the... CONTINUE READING→
Bonding with Tweens
Dear Mr. Dad: I am having difficulty communicating with my 11-year-old son. When I ask him questions, he barely answers with one syllable grunts and is completely uninterested in spending any more time with me than he has to. What can I do to build a better relationship with a child who thinks his father... CONTINUE READING→
Having Intimacy Issues?
Is your game a bit off? Sex Therapy Sex therapy was born in the 1960s, with the work of pioneering researchers Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson. They showed us that many intimacy problems could be cured with a combination of education, whole-body massage and applying specific techniques. They understood that some issues with sex are relationship... CONTINUE READING→
The Evolution of Sex, Power, and Passion: Why Men and Women Are the Way They Are
I grew up in a home with an angry father and a fearful mother. To survive and thrive I had to figure out why they felt what they felt, did what they did, and how I could get the protection and love I needed. At age five I became an amateur psychologist and with a... CONTINUE READING→
What Children Need
Dear Mr. Dad: I’ve been dating a wonderful man and think he’s “the one.” The only issue is that he has a two-year-old child. I never wanted to be a parent (I’m not sure I even liked kids), but that’s changed. I think I’m ready to be a stepmother and even have a child of... CONTINUE READING→
Can Stem Cells be Used to Create People?
We’ve known about stem cells for half a century. They are cells that not only make copies of themselves but can also become other types of cells and tissues. This kind of biological feat is unique in science and has the potential to cure disease. So why haven’t we seen more scientific success and stem... CONTINUE READING→