Age management medicine is the science of optimizing the body’s nutritional, physical, and hormonal status.  The idea is not necessarily to extend life but rather to prolong the youthfulness of the human physiology.

An important aspect of age management is hormonal therapy. In our clinic only bioidentical hormones are used. These include estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and human growth hormone.

Age management is focused on maintaining and improving quality of life while aging.  This is a field of science that has grown exponentially over the past 15 years and has extensive research behind it.

There are three basic components of age management lifestyle;

    Nutrition

    Exercise

    Hormonal optimization

All three of these must be addressed in order to be fully successful in slowing, stopping, or even reversing the bodies aging process.  Disease and aging comes down to one thing; inflammation. The three components of the age management program are designed to lower total body inflammation.

Nutrition

Nutrition is the base of the pyramid that we build upon to create a successful age management program. The diet is a combination of low-glycemic and low energy density foods. This type of diet has been shown to promote health improvements by lowering blood sugar and insulin requirements, decreasing inflammation, improving cholesterol, and improving energy and wellbeing.  The diet is based primarily on making good food choices. The diet can be tailored to focus primarily on weight loss, cholesterol or blood sugar improvement, or general wellness.

A healthy diet will also help to optimize hormonal replacement therapy.

Hormone Replacement

After a lifestyle assessment and thorough review of the blood work, recommendations are made regarding hormone replacement. Hormone levels, growth hormone and testosterone, tend to deteriorate as we age, this program is designed to replace deficiencies not to put you into a supra-physiologic state.

The target ranges are generally a range that you would have been in at the age of 25. Replacement is founded in evidence-based medicine and supported by multiple studies in peer reviewed journals.

Exercise

Exercise is the foundation for healthy living; a person that works out regularly has a lot more energy and capacity to endure life's situations in a healthier way, plus it releases endorphins also known as hormone of happiness.

Along with the Hormonal optimization it helps achieve better energy levels and improve sleep patterns and libido.

Benefits of Age Management

Increased lean body mass

Decreased body fat

Improved bone density

Improved sexual function

Improved memory

Improved cholesterol

Improved mood

Improved ability to handle stress

Improved immune function

Increased energy

Improved exercise capacity

Reduced risk of Alzheimer's

Improved cognitive function

How the Program Works