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Anti-Aging Medicine

Both Anti-Aging medicine and current medical practice are attempting to increase life span and improve the quality of human life. Anti-Aging medicine tends to be more proactive and utilizes cutting edge approaches

As we age multiple hormone abnormalities develop and can be diagnosed clinically and through extensive lab work (evidence-based medicine). These abnormalities can cause weakness, fatigue, loss of libido, and decreased ambition and productivity. Growth hormone deficiencies are diagnosed through blood work. If there is a true deficiency, various natural supplements are prescribed (without injections) and subsequent clinical and lab reassessment is done.

Specific emphasis is placed on male and female menopause. Inwomen.natural therapeutics andbio-identical hormonesare used to increase the good estrogen and decrease the potentially carcinogenic (cancer-causing) bad estrogens. Inmen, clinical deficiencies in testosterone or its precursors or situations in which testosterone deficiencies arise from age-related conversion of testosterone to estrogen are treated with natural therapeutics. Only when all natural attempts to correct laboratory abnormalities have not obtained optimal results will other therapies will be utilized, eg. injections, gels, creams, etc.

Hormonal Causes of Aging Science has now documented that several important anabolic (body building type) hormones decrease in a predictable fashion,.

Bioidentical Hormonereplacement therapy (synthetic or nonsynthetic hormones that are identical in chemical structure to hormones produced naturally.) has many advantages such as:

(Wepfer, S. RPH, Int. J. Pharm. Compounding, vol. 5 No. 6, Dec 2001, pp 10-12)

Womans Health Initiative Study Why did a study on estrogen derived from pregnant horse urine and synthetic progesterone reveal negative results? Source: estrogen was derived from the urine of pregnant horses and included unnecessary forms of estrogen found only in horses. The progesterone utilized was a synthetic compound.

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Anti-Aging Medicine