A new paradigm in our understanding of the aging process is that we age because our hormones decline; our hormones don’t decline because we age.  From conception, hormones, which are produced by the endocrine glands, serve as messengers from your brain telling your internal organs how to function.  A decrease in the production of hormones begins in middle age and continues to diminish in a linear fashion until old age.

Insufficiency of hormones has been discovered to be a major element in the process of aging.  We can now look at aging as a significant factor in disease formation and attempt to prevent the symptoms of aging by treating as a disease itself.  We 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.  Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy stimulates a multitude of life-giving processes throughout the body which maintain health, harmony, growth, healing and repair.  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. 

Hormones are not drugs.  They are natural substances that have existed in our bodies since conception.  The doses of hormones taken in bio-identical hormone replacement therapy should never exceed what our body has been accustomed to in its younger years.  They caused no harm in the body at that 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 the physician and monitored closely they produce no negative side effects.  When all the declining hormones are taken together in the correct doses, they work with each other to restore declining immunity which in turn helps protect the body against disease. 

Physical deterioration is not a requirement of growing older.  It is now possible to stop much of these undesirable aspects of aging as well as the symptoms and diseases associated with aging.  Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy is an updated science which has been shown to prolong the quality of one’s life. The basis for optimal health and longevity are proper diet, exercise, nutritional supplementation, stress management and bio-identical hormone replacement therapy.  This slows cellular degeneration and allows regeneration of tissue, healing and a slowing down of the aging process.  After a complete physical examination and laboratory testing, hormone supplementation will be prescribed and monitored until optimal levels have been achieved.