“Boomers Will Be Pumping Billions Into Anti-Aging Industry” reads the headline from the Huffington Post article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/20/boomers-anti-aging-industry_n_932109.html

Is the anti-aging movement  just a fad to take advantage of the money and health concerns of the baby boomer generation? Or is it a new way of looking at how we age and what can be done to naturally slow down or stabilize the effects of aging. We are in the dawn of a wonderful new era of health. So many new and profound discoveries have been made about health and aging that are being turned into new ways to treat and prevent the declines in health that in the past have always been considered inevitable. 

But it is important to be skeptical of someone trying to sell you a dream in a potion or magic  pill. It is important to realize the difference between unbelievable claims of anti-aging treatments versus the ideas of health promotion and wellness extension based on science. With the replacement and support of natural hormones and supplements, wellness, health, energy and fitness can be maintained beyond what is normally expected from the gradual and continual decline of your own body’s hormones.

Doctors who are serious about health and wellness are not going to promise a magic cure to aging. What should be important for the patient is working with a physician that is committed to each individual patient, their own health needs and concerns, and giving them the treatments that are natural to their own bodies in a manner that will promote the most beneficial effects to maintain the natural physiology  of youthfulness, which may give one increased levels of health and wellness.

We don’t promise a fountain of youth, but we can pretty well expect a fountain of increased youthfulness.
This is where health and anti-aging medicine merge.

www.pfrankmd.com/yd

 

 

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Telomerase, the next big thing in the field of anti-aging. What is it, what does it do, and why does it represent a major breakthrough in the field of anti-aging medicine? The topic of telomeres and the telomerase enzyme has been getting hotter and hotter, including the latest article in Elle Magazine, “Hey-Wanna Live Forever?” Research in this field was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009. So what is the hype about? Telomeres are pieces of DNA at the ends of every one of your chromosomes that protect  the DNA and allows it to continue to replicate and divide into new cells. Each time your cells divide and the chromosomes are replicated, the very ends of the chromosome, the telomere, gets shortened a bit. Eventually, the telomere gets too short and the chromosome is no longer able to replicate. This means the cell can no longer divide to make new cells. Our body’s aging is a direct result of this ending of cell division in all of our organs.

What does this mean for you and me? There is now a blood test that can measure the length of the telomeres in your cells, which gradually declines with age, but can also decline even further when one suffers from chronic diseases, unhealthy lifestyles, and stress. This measurement can give you a good idea about whether your body is aging at a healthy rate or not, in which case health recommendations can be made. This is where it gets even more exciting. Besides health recommendations including good nutrition, exercise, reducing stress and smoking, there is a hot new nutritional supplement called TA-65, which is the only proven telomerase activator available. TA-65 is created from a single molecule in the astragalus plant and works to increase the activity of the telomerase enzyme in your cells, thus increase the length of the telomeres and prolong the lives of the cells. And that is how we may be finding the fountain of youth, or the next step towards it, in a pill. More information as well as the availability of this blood test and TA-65 supplement is available through Youth Diagnostics at www.pfrankmd.com/yd/.

 

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Welcome to the Anti-Aging blog of Youth Diagnostics with Dr. Grant Macaulay and Dr. Paul Frank.
The future of health and wellness is here and it is available to you. We are offering the most advanced technologies and treatments now available to enable you to achieve the highest level of health, vitality, and longevity. The first step in achieving your optimal level of wellness is to assess the current state of health of your body by using sophisticated tests and measures that evaluate the relative ages of your various body systems. Such biomarker tests, such as the CardioAge, PulmoAge, and NeuroAge, are able to quite accurately give you the relative aging health of your body systems. In addition, multiple examinations of hormone levels, vitamins and blood chemistries show your current state of physiological function. These evaluations allow us to be able to make specialized treatment protocols that improve the health and wellness of every patient individually to enable you to reach your own level of optimal health. We invite you to take this exciting step into the possibilities of your own level of renewed energy, vitality and optimal wellness.

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