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 Wonder (Bra) Woman!  First there was tattooed-on eyeliner, now there's a surgically implanted bra! If your breasts are traveling south (and whose aren't?) Ziya Saylan, an Argentinean doctor practicing in Dusseldorf, Germany, can fit you with titanium mesh breast implants. Dr. Saylan says this magical mesh with keep your boobs from sagging. Though the operation can be performed on anyone 60 or younger, he says that he "reaches better results for women with small, sagging breasts."The cost of the operation: $2,300. Mesh material for the titanium bra: $400. Looking like you're wearing a Wonder Bra while strolling topless: priceless. Is it All Testosterone's Fault? Low levels of testosterone were once assumed to be linked to low libido in women simply because the same was true in men. Don't people know that men are from Mars and women are from, well, they just aren't men? After further research into the topic, Dr. Susan Davis of Australia's Jean Hailes Foundation presented her findings to the Endocrine Society's annual meeting. Dr. Davis studied 1,423 women between 18 and 75 and found no relationship between low testosterone levels and low libido in women. However, she did find that women under 45 who were experiencing a low libido did have low levels of dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate, or DHEA, a hormone produced naturally in both men and women. So next time you aren't in the mood, you can blame it on DHEA, but don't blame it on testosterone.  But perhaps you men out there can blame something on testosterone. If you stub your toe and it hurts more than it should, perhaps you're experiencing low levels of the hormone. Princeton University's Professor Michaela Hau and a research team conducted a series of experiments on male sparrows. They gave the birds testosterone implants and measured their reaction times to pain. Those with the implants tolerated pain for longer periods. [We can just imagine all PETA readers immediately dispatching their own team to Princeton!]Hau believes that an increase in testosterone levels may result in an increase in enkephalins, which are they body's natural painkillers. These findings could be promising for dealing with chronic pain...in men AND in sparrows! Exercise Away Pesky Erectile Dysfunction If you're having trouble getting it up, perhaps you should just GET up. A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that overweight men experiencing erectile dysfunction can reduce their risk by exercising enough to burn at least an additional 200 calories a day. We'd say this is a no-brainer, but we know where men's brains are purported to be located, eh?  Second University of Naples's Katherine Esposito, M.D. also discovered that after two years of regular exercise-and the weight loss that accompanied it-33% of obese men who'd experienced ED actually regained full sexual function. Last year, Harvard researchers published a study suggesting exercise as a sure-fire way to help prevent erectile dysfunction. This extensive study followed 31,000 men between ages 55 to 90, and found that men who exercised regularly typically enjoyed an extra decade of healthy erectile "function" compared with men who exercised less-or not at all."We must say that the program which the obese subjects agreed to enter into was based on an integrated approach, so we don't know if adopting one aspect only (diet or exercise) could be effective," says Esposito. "Our feeling is that diet and exercise are both important. Our advice to such a man would be, eat well and move more." Holy love handles, Limp Dick Man, get some blood pumping and maybe you'll, um, get some blood pumping! Unless you're looking forward to a never-ending diet of Viagra and Haagen Dazs. Bastards in Peril?  According to a study published in June's Obstetrics & Gynecology, whether you're married or just living together has an affect on the outcome of your pregnancy. It appears that unmarried couples may experience more pregnancy complications than their married counterparts.The study, conducted in Quebec, Canada between 1990 and 1997, looked at more then 720,000 births. "Researchers found that so-called common-law couples had 'modestly higher' risks of premature delivery, low birth weight and infant death compared with married couples." [Reuter's Health] There has been a surprising increase in births to common-law couples in the province of Quebec over the past few years. In fact, according to Dr. Michael S. Kramer of Montreal's McGill University, in 1998, babies born to common-law mothers surpassed those born to married women living in Quebec. "The reason for the disparity is unclear, but its persistence throughout the 1990s is surprising," Kramer said. "The disparities persisted when the researchers accounted for factors such as the mother's age and education, and whether she'd given birth before. However, the findings do not necessarily point to a 'therapeutic' effect of legal marriage." Kramer and his colleagues speculate, "Women in common-law unions may face greater stress during pregnancy due to the relative lack of stability in their relationship-or they may differ from women who opt to walk down the aisle in some other way that affects their pregnancy." We won't hypothesize about the differences between people who choose to get married and then reproduce or those who simply reproduce. But we WILL anxiously await a similar study of homosexual parental unions and the health of THEIR biological offspring. And we perhaps suggest a bit of introspection on the word "commitment"-and all it entails.
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