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Are you tired of yo-yo dieting? Do you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning without lots of coffee? Are you suffering from chronic fatigue or decreased memory? Are you feeling stressed out, depressed or excessively anxious? Does it take you a long time to recover from a cold or are you plagued with recurrent allergies? Do you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome? The fact is that these are all symptoms of accelerated aging or sub-optimal health. With early intervention you can prevent yourself from slipping on to the wrong path, the path of disease.
The 2008 stock market crash and housing market bust wiped out many retirement plans and is forcing people to difer their retirement ever longer. In Europe, most countries have revised the age of retirement from 65 to 70. We cannot as a society keep spending so much on treating disease and so little on preventing it. The truth is that a comprehensive program requires the presence of a physician who is well trained in anti-aging medicine and is supported by the proper lab tests and the proper help from the other medical specialists and a few practitioners of oriental medicine who may have something to offer the aging person. This can be accomplished by employing a team of specialists in nutrition, sports medicine, toxicology and anti-aging who are assisted, where appropriate, by experts such as endocrinologists, psychiatrists, gastroenterologists, neurologists, cardiologists and gynecologists. There are many lab tests today that are geared to uncover that a patient is on a perilous yet reversible path to sickness well before irreversible disease strikes. What is anti-aging medicine? Patients rarely present to a doctor with more than one or two complaints. Fragmentation of care is a serious issue in traditional medicine where each physician focuses on his or her sub-specialty, be it the brain, the low back, the prostate, the gut or the liver, as the source of a specific complaint. However, a good unhurried anti-aging specialist can frequently identify in a patient presenting to him with weight gain, an irritable bowel, migraines, diminished sex drive or irregular periods more than a dozen problems of which the patient is unaware, many of which may be interrelated. The future of medicine is not in jumping to fill an order to treat the symptoms of disease with prescription or over the counter drugs, a practice covered by standard insurance plans and involving little time. The future of medicine is the anti-aging approach which is time consuming and not currently recognized as a separate specialty, nor is it covered by insurance. In this approach, the trained practitioner seeks to find symptoms of accelerated aging of different organs and diagnose their root cause, advising the patient on how and why to change their lifestyle in order to alleviate or slow these symptoms instead of medicating them. When appropriate, we use therapeutic high dose vitamins, minerals and food supplements to stay healthy in the first place, thereby minimizing the use or the dose of any prescription drug. Drugs are useful and often life saving but should be mostly used as a last resort. ACE inhibitors for example are great medications to control high blood pressure and unload the heavy burden facing a failing heart. But instead of accepting that the patient will eventually need additional drugs, such as beta blockers, diuretics and calcium channel blockers, we can attempt to push the patient to exercise and lose weight and thereby limit and reduce the dose of these drugs. We frequently take our patients who are on a debilitating dose of 40 mg of Lipitor a day to a regimen of 10 mg a day by adding certain cholesterol-lowering supplements and vitamins, encouraging lifestyle changes and if needed, correcting their deficiency in male or female hormones. 
The best medicine is often less medicine, while food choices can be the best or worst medicine of all. We need to relearn the art of cooking. It is very challenging to eat out all the time and still avoid gaining weight and increasing inflammation through possible food intolerances. Cooking at home is making a big come back around the world. Our nutrition section provides the essential rules of healthy cooking along with an assortment of delicious yet nourishing recipes. We also need to lower our external and internal stress and live a less sedentary lifestyle.
Anti-Aging medicine looks at the influence of the environment on your genetic makeup and the impact your awareness, habits and lifestyle choices have on your health. We value interventions that focus on treating the underlying fire (cause) and not simply addressing the smoke (symptoms). When we fix the inflamed gut or inflamed brain, we not only address the abdominal pain or the migraines but we end up addressing many other problems at the same time. It is rare for example that a hormone has one specific function. Just about every cell in the body has receptors for thyroid, testosterone, or estrogen hormones so that fixing one hormone deficiency treats multiple symptoms related to all organs affected by that deficiency. The human genome project revealed that our inherited genes are behind about 25% of our health problems while the remaining 75% stem from the influences of our life style choices and environment. Having the genetic predisposition for breast cancer, diabetes or Alzheimer’s does not mean that we are automatically prisoners of our genes, unless we violate the laws of good nutrition, sensible hormone replacement and stress reduction. Being born with bad genes is no different than driving on a highway full of traffic police. We are more likely to be caught driving under the influence, speeding, tail gating or jumping traffic signals, but if we routinely follow the rules of safe driving, we needn’t concern ourselves with being stopped. 
Our program starts with completing a comprehensive on line questionnaire reviewing all nutritional, emotional, sleep and stress aspects of the patient, their clinical symptoms, medications and non-prescription supplement use. We then recommend the proper laboratory tests to check sex, thyroid and stress-related hormones, food intolerances, toxicity levels such as the body’s lead and mercury stores, osteoporosis and cardiac risk indicators, and the fitness of your liver to carry out its detoxification job.
The body sends warning signals ten to twenty years ahead of most disease conditions; however, traditional physicians were not trained to pick them up or to think of aging as the first stage of disease. The days when a complete physical check up consisted merely of checking blood pressure; blood sugar, an EKG and cholesterol are over. A good check up is now individualized and much more comprehensive and is the best investment that you can ever make. We do not go from a state of perfect health to a disease state without going through a stage of sub-optimal health where our normally wonderful body repair mechanism cannot keep up with the onslaught of poor nutrition, hormone imbalance, and heavy metal toxicity, and, after futile attempts finally gives up to disease. The future of medicine is about intervening at the sub-optimal or “ill-being” state to prevent the progression to an irreversible disease state. Do Vitamins Really Work? A to Z Centrum® is the # 1 multivitamin pill in the world in terms of sales, primarily due to clever marketing. However, by simply reading the label, it is easy to realize that it has very low dosage levels of the ingredients listed compared to other multivitamins in the marketplace. It would be impossible to put into one tablet or capsule much more than the Recommended Daily Value of each vitamin and mineral because it simply would not fit. Thus patients are lured into a false sense of security that they are getting their health insurance by taking one multivitamin pill every day. While it may contain 100% of the Required Daily Allowance (RDA), these FDA recommendations were first published more than forty years ago at a time when we ate wholesome food from farms instead of processed foods that have three times more sugar than our parents ate as well as plenty of trans-fats that our parents never knew. Vitamins may contain gelatin out of pork, which may be a problem for vegetarians, Muslims or Jews, since it is not Halal or Koshar and alternatives are available. This fact can be verified by visiting companies’ websites. Farmers in the past used animal manure, lime and compost as organic fertilizers to produce the mineral rich food that our parents consumed. Our food today lacks a lot of vitamins and minerals no longer found in depleted, over-farmed, and pesticide filled soil mixed with synthetic inorganic fertilizers. Insecticides sprayed on crops wash into the agricultural soil, killing the crucial earthworms needed to aerate the soil and finding their way to ground water causing more cancers. We live today with polluted air, polluted water and polluted homes and endure three times more stress than our parents had. Disease states and the medications used to control them deplete the body of essential nutrients. With this in mind, we can no longer accept the RDA recommendations until it is seriously adjusted for the above factors. The RDA recommendations are meant to represent the minimum dose required to prevent overt disease, not the amount we actually need to have optimal health and vitality. Take a Short Quiz to Find How You Feel I have created a short and simple quiz that quantifies your total wellbeing. The quiz is based on my experience with taking care of thousands of patients. Take a few minutes to measure how you feel.
Total score: (0-15) you are in a state of excellent wellbeing (15-30) you are coping well but can improve (30-45) you are aging your organs fast (Above 45) you need a serious check up and life style changes Click here for VitaSuge Products |
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