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Age Management MedicineAge Management Medicine is defined as preventive medicine focused on regaining and maintaining optimal health and vigor. This medical specialty incorporates well-known and accepted markers of disease-risk into proactive patient management and uses hormone modulation for the endocrinologically normal by identifying hormone levels that yield superior health outcomes. For most hormones, this is simply the upper 33% of the normal range for a patients age. The exceptions are insulin and cortisol that should be modulated to the lower 33% of the normal range. Age Management Medicine recognizes that successful therapies necessitate healthy lifestyle including optimal low glycemic index nutrition, appropriate nutrient supplementation, and the absolute need for physical exercise. Age Management Medicine focuses on the synergy of all of these elements in order to enhance vitality and extend our health span. While we may or may not we are able to prevent premature disability and death and enhance quality of life. extension or of reversing the aging process. Contrary to Age Management Medicine, the term Anti-Aging Medicine has gained a great amount of negative notoriety while making uncorroborated implications. The Anti-Aging industry continues to promote products that are useless and in some cases fraudulent in nature. Anti-Aging Medicine claims that aging is a disease. It is not a disease, but rather a process that we all experience. The most important element necessary for the success of any medical therapy is the expertise and experience of the physicians in whom you place your trust for your health care. Our physicians are certified in Age Management Medicine and have a wealth of experience in hormone modulation therapies, nutritional strategies and exercise science. |