Growing old is inevitable. It happens to all of us. It's what we do about it that will make a huge difference to our lives.
The philosophy is simple. Ageing is a disease, and there's a whole raft of things we can do to fight its symptoms. That's radical thinking in a very conservative medical world, but to us, it just makes sense.
For years, conventional medical doctrine has dictated that as we grow old, our hormone levels decline. In anti-ageing medicine, we know that as our hormone levels decline, we grow old. We just look at the problem in a different way, choosing to treat declining hormone levels as a deficiency disease rather than as a natural degeneration process.
Yet the debate still rages in the medical world about what's 'natural' and what's not. Conservative practitioners continue to believe that hormone decline is just a natural part of ageing, and they don't think about doing anything about it. Yet these same doctor's wouldn't think twice about writing a 'script for a diabetic's insulin.
Well insulin isn't the only hormone that can get out of balance. Human Growth Hormone, Pregnenalone, DHEA, Melatonin... these are all hormones just like insulin, and just like insulin, they have a role to play in keeping you fit and healthy.
The problem is that as we age, our body's natural production of these hormones declines at a rate of about 15% per decade. This decline triggers so many health problems that it's too difficult to list them here. The solution? To supplement them, of course, and both the short and long term health benefits are startling.
Of course, we don't just look at hormones. That's just a very small part of a much bigger picture. Take nutrition. Yes... there's no substitute for a healthy diet, but did you know that a year or so back, researchers in the USA looked at nutrition levels in common 'garden' vegetables, comparing crops grown in the 1950's with crops grown in 1999. In some cases, there had been a 35% decline in nutritional value.
That's why we recommend dietary supplements... specific dietary supplements that can have an immediate effect on your health. Fish Oil tops the list, and in our next issue, we'll be devoting a whole article to it.
There's also a couple that are vital to your heart's health. Co-Enzyme Q10 (or CoQ10) and L-Carnatine deliver energy to the individual cells in your body, and most of us don't get enough from our diets.
Exercise, too, plays a role. It might sound like tired old advice and you might not want to hear it, but if you did nothing but get regular exercise, eat healthy food and add a few supplements, you're going to live a healthier, more active, and probably longer life.
Rejuvenation Medicine is all about bringing together medical, nutritional and lifestyle intervention to keep your body's systems functioning at optimum performance levels for as long as we can.
It's an agressively pro-active approach to your health.