Control Your Hormones – Control Your Life We’ll show you how.

The ultimate in preventive medicine technology has finally been realized.

Insufficiency of hormones has been discovered to be a major element in the process of aging.

Fortunately, the NIA (National Institute on Aging) has instructed several major U.S. universities to study this phenomenon. Research from around the world during the last five years has led the NIA to realize the tremendous benefits of hormone replacement therapy.

The emphases of allopathic medicine have always been to diagnosis and treat a disease process. Unfortunately, many of the disease processes, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, have been blamed on the aging process. However, conventional medicine has never treated again as a disease process nor has it tried to prevent this disease process. Now we can look at aging as a significant factor in disease formation and attempt to prevent the symptoms of aging by treating aging as a disease itself. We now have begun to change our thinking that it is normal to deteriorate with age and therefore acceptable. Fortunately, we now know that much of the deterioration of aging is preventable.

This new gestalt of treating age as a disease process first started in 1991 by a famous endocrinologist at the Medical Center of Wisconsin named Dr. Daniel Rudman. Dr. Rudman studied hormone replacement in older men, the results of which were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Rudman stated in an interview, “We reversed 10 to 20 years of the aging process in older men. Fat diminished, muscle tissue and strength increased.” There was also increased lean body mass, decreased body fat, increased vertebral bone density, increased skin thickness, increased exercise tolerance and exercise endurance, improved healing and immunity, and tremendous increase in overall well-being. This was all accomplished by the simple administration of human growth hormone. Thus Dr. Rudman’s study revealed solid research supporting the fact that hormonal decline itself is a major cause of our aging. Providing the body with additional human growth hormone can reverse symptoms of the aging process.

Other scientists have realized the importance of supplementation of other hormones. Scientists at the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute of Health in Baltimore, Maryland, are working with other researchers to examine the role that reduced plasma sex hormones play in age-related disturbances, including musculoskeletal function, body composition and metabolic function. Combined hormone replacement therapy, by returning growth hormone and sex hormone levels typical for younger people, has shown additive or synergistic effects.  Physical and psychological function is improved, including improvement in cardiovascular function, improved cholesterol levels, increased lean body mass, and improved muscle strength and fitness. Let’s take a look at the various hormones and their roles.

Hormones are tiny, chemical messengers continuously secreted into the bloodstream by endocrine glands to regulate activities of vital organs. Hormones stimulate a multitude of life-giving processes throughout the body which maintain health, harmony, growth, healing and repair. Probably the best known hormone is insulin, which is secreted by the pancreas. Before the development of the production and the administration of insulin, many people died as a result of diabetes or had severe debilitating illnesses. Once scientists were able to synthesize insulin, the sever changes associated with diabetes were reversed.

Genetic engineering has now enabled endocrinologists to synthesize all natural hormones found in our bodies. This significant advancement in the ability to synthesize our hormones has to lead to endocrinology research into the correction of the deficiency of hormones that contributes to our aging decline. It is the operation of the endocrine system that is responsible for the regulation of the body’s temperature, sexual desires, growth, healing, again and immune system. IT is the endocrine system that allows the central nervous system to communicate with every cell in the body. Hormone deficiencies affect every cell in the body and results in the degenerative changes and the aging process as well as the aging process as well as symptoms of again. However, bringing hormone levels back to a level we had when we were younger reverses many of the unfavorable effects that begin to appear as we age.

The basics for optimal health and longevity are proper diet, exercise, nutritional supplementation and hormone replacement therapy. This stops cellular degeneration and allows regeneration of tissue, healing and a slowing down of the aging process.

Hormones are not drugs. They are natural substances that have existed in our bodies since conception. The doses of hormones taken in hormones replacement therapy should never exceed what your body has already been accustomed to in its younger years. They caused no harm in the body at the time and when restored to youthful levels continue to provide the health and vigor that one loses as they age. When hormones are taken as prescribed by physicians and monitored closely they produce no negative side effects. When all the declining hormones are taken together in the correct does, they work with each other to restore declining immunity which in turn helps protect the body against cancer.

Physical deterioration is not a requirement of growing older. It is now possible to stop much of this undesirable aspect of aging as well as the symptoms and diseases associated with aging. Hormone replacement therapy is and updated science which has been shown to not only prolong life, but prolong the quality of one’s life. At Premier Health and Wellness, we specialize in total hormone replacement regimens as well as exercise, diet and nutritional supplementation to achieve maximum benefits and deter the aging process. After a complete physical examination and laboratory evaluation, a personalized hormone supplementation program will be prescribed for you and monitored until optimal hormone levels have been achieved.

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Acupuncture

Inside of you is an intelligent, energetic system that maintains health and balance.  Acupuncture balances the body and stimulates it to heal itself on a profound level and has been studied extensively for thousands of years.  In Traditional Chinese Medicine the body is an energetic system first.  The vital energy that flows through this system is called, ‘qi’ and the paths in which they flow are called, ‘meridians’. The substance of the body and all of its functions are dependent on this flow of ‘qi’.  When there is a blockage in the flow of ‘qi’, disease develops.

Acupuncture treatments can therefore help the body’s internal organs to correct imbalances in their digestion, absorption, and energy production activities, and in the circulation of their energy through the meridians.  The modern scientific explanation is that needling the acupuncture points stimulates the nervous system to release chemicals in the muscles, spinal cord and brain.  These chemicals will either change the experience of pain, or they will trigger the release of other chemicals and hormones which influence the body’s own internal regulating system.

The improved energy and biochemical balance produced by acupuncture

Acupuncture is an alternative medicine methodology originating in ancient China that treats patients by manipulating thin, solid needles that have been inserted into acupuncture points in the skin. According to Traditional Chinese medicine, stimulating these points can correct imbalances in the flow of qi through channels known as meridians.

Current scientific research supports acupuncture’s efficacy in the relief of certain types of pain and post-operative nausea. The use of acupuncture for certain conditions has been tentatively endorsed by the United States National Institutes of Health, the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, the World Health Organization, and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.  There is general agreement that acupuncture is safe when administered by well-trained practitioners using sterile needles but does carry a small (five in one million) risk of serious adverse effects.

The mechanisms underlying pain relief from insertion of needles are unknown, but it has been suggested that it may involve recruitment of the body’s own pain reduction system, possibly attended by an increased release of endorphins, serotonin, norepinephrine, or gamma-aminobutyric acid.

Acupuncturists in the United States are required to attend a four-year graduate level, accredited program to be licensed. Each state has their own licensure agencies and confer different titles ranging from the Acupuncture Physician in Florida to Licensed Acupuncturist in Texas. The abbreviation “Dipl. Ac.” stands for “Diplomate of Acupuncture” and signifies that the holder is board-certified by the NCCAOM.

In 1996, the United States Food and Drug Administration changed the status of acupuncture needles from Class III to Class II medical devices, meaning that needles are regarded as safe and effective when used appropriately by licensed practitioners.

As of 2004, nearly 50% of Americans who were enrolled in employer health insurance plans were covered for acupuncture treatments.