I.M.120 Helping you to BE YOUR BEST SELF

Nothing can kill the buzz of a romantic get away quicker than a medical problem. If your travel plans incorporate an expectation of carnal bliss, be prepared to amplify your joy by avoiding some of the ...

In the world of conventional pharmacological medicine, there are two broad categories of medications; generics and brand-name drugs.

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Dr. Stephen Petteruti explains how understanding menopause can help prevent couples from simply toddling off into old age but instead, embracing it.

Any man who makes the bold attempt to spend the arc of his life with a woman would be wise to understand menopause. This event is second only to childbirth in its...

Dr. Stephen Petteruti lays out the plain facts about testosterone therapy. When it's appropriate, how it works, what it does, and what it doesn't do. 

The promise is nothing short of a better life. Confident, fit, handsome men are depicted in the commercials along with their satisfied and equally fit female partners. Message; if you don’t see yourself in the figures on your TV...

Dr. Stephen Petteruti lays out the facts, and lays to rest a few fallacies, about getting a flu shot.

Does it really make any sense for a perfectly healthy, young person to subject themselves to the discomfort, expense, and potential risk of being immunized against the flu? Frequently in my office a patient will say to me “I haven’t been sick in 10 years, why should I bother?” to which I usually answer “I’ve never been in a head-on collision, but I always buckle my seatbelt.” You just need to run into one bad case of the flu to make you wish you had done more to protect...

The first step is seeing it for what it is.

It’s the dead of winter. You wake up in darkness and go home in darkness. You find yourself more irritable, short tempered. Your energy and enthusiasm for things you typically enjoy starts to fade. Food selection gets skewed, in some cases comfort eating takes place, and others a tendency to miss meals may occur.

You may find yourself feeling a sense of existential angst. Maybe, you even find yourself becoming tearful with mild provocation. Your interest in sex may diminish. Your ability to fall asleep and stay asleep may...

Dr. Stephen Petteruti talks about some non-pill-based ways to address erectile problems.

If you’re a man past age 30, you’re probably wondering “is this as good as it gets”?

Remember the good old days when merely thinking about Susie’s sweater would be enough to put you in a froth? Remember when the bell to end the class would ring and you couldn’t stand up because you had a pole in your pants?

Okay, so you’ll never be 18 again, but you can still enjoy a rich, vital and frisky sex life until you breathe your last breath. Even if you’ve had problems in that...

From the time we are born we are in a battle against bacteria. Shortly after birth, our oral cavities becomes covered with a veneer of bacteria that remains for a lifespan. Much of this bacteria is helpful and when well-balanced can keep us more healthy, but a combination of some bad luck and dental neglect can unleash severe consequences.

It  been established that low-grade inflammation from oral and gingival disease can increase the risk of heart disease. Inflammation instigated by the exposure to bacteria can harm the heart and arteries leading to hardening of the arteries and...

At I.M.129 we have developed The Zaino Protocol for taking type II diabetics off insulin. I first conceived of this approach while treating obese type II diabetics. It is named after one of first patients to benefit from this treatment to come off his insulin completely. 

Over the years we have been trained by conventional medicine to think of blood sugar as being the single most important variable to good health when it comes to diabetes management. Ignored over the years has been the impact of weight gain in the overall health of our diabetic...

Think of protein like the 2 X 4 of the house. Is the structural material that our bodies need to build all the components that make for healthy life. Protein is the raw material that we use to construct our muscles, bones, enzymes and other molecules that make body run. Without adequate protein intake our body simply cannot function. 

Now consider that several of the required proteins cannot be manufactured by our body and must be ingested orally, and that protein cannot be stored to be used later. Therefore we require regular ingestion of protein throughout the course of the day to...