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"Hormones and Aging" The Doctors'
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| Provided you have made the right lifestyle,
dietary and nutrient adjustments, and outside of the genetic changes which
happen with age, the gradual decline of the hormone systems of the body
determines the rate at which we age more than any other factor. |
| We have known about hormones in medicine
for over 100 years. However, because of the philosophical foundation of
life, which has rested on the certainty of death, medicine has been very
slow to adapt this knowledge to prevent and reverse aging. The unconscious
assumption has been that it would be somehow sacrilegious to life itself
to interfere with the inevitable decline leading to death. Those bonds
of being and thinking are now being broken. |
| Ask yourself this question: at what
age in your life did you feel best, most vital, most optimistic? For most
people the answer will be somewhere between 20 and 25. Therefore, why not
do a survey of the hormone systems of the body and, by supplementation
of orthomolecular human hormones, return each one to the levels you enjoyed
at age 20-25. When you do this, within a few days you begin to feel better.
Within a few months you feel as you did when you were that age. And within
a few years your appearance begins to reflect how young you feel. |
| Now, no-one is saying that you will
appear to be 20 years old again, but the removal of 10-20 years of what
you thought were the irreversible changes in appearance of aging is a very
attainable goal. |
| The hormones DHEA, melatonin, pregnenolone,
the estrogens, testosterone, and HGH (human growth hormone) all help regulate
the rate at which we age along with the physical and mental expressions
of aging, and each of these items are now available. The best use of these
items is not being made however, because they are sold over the counter
and people have no idea what their levels of these hormones are before
or after they start on them. The idea is to supplement exactly to ideal
levels enjoyed at age 20, not to simply load up on some hormones you may
or may not need. Other hormones, such as the natural human estrogens (estrone,
estriol, and estradiol) and testosterone are now available by prescription.
However, to get the best results, all of these hormones should be tested
before supplementation and supplementation should be aimed at providing
optimal levels, not simply high levels. When it comes to hormones, not
enough is bad, but too much can be worse. |
| Hormone replacement therapy is coming
fully into its own and by itself can cut morbidity and mortality statistics
in half. If you have not requested to be tested for the adrenal, sex, and
thyroid hormones, you are missing the boat and a powerful ticket to good
health. |
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| Human Growth Hormone |
| In addition to the adrenal, sex, and
thyroid hormones, there is one more hormone which is extremely important—the
most important one—in that it has more to do with the changes of aging
than any other, namely human growth hormone, or HGH.. HGH is secreted by
the pituitary gland of the brain, the master gland which regulates the
entire hormone system. In fact, 40% of the anterior pituitary cells are
“somatocytes,” cells which make HGH. Based on the number of cells devoted
to the job, nature seems to think the production of HGH is critically important. |
| In childhood, HGH causes the growth
of long bones and this brings a person to his or her final height. Traditionally,
this was all HGH was thought to do. New research shows that every cell
in the body has HGH receptors and that HGH is doing a host of jobs in human
metabolism in every organ in the body. There are even receptors in the
brain, the activation of which results in the production of endorphins
molecules, which keep one’s mood even and upbeat. Skin cells respond to
HGH with even growth producing the smooth appearance of children’s skin.
Cells in the brain respond by literally coming back to life (about 10%
of the brain cells become non-functional each decade of life). Thus, HGH
is the latest and most effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, although
the large double blind clinical trials have not yet been done. |
| One consistent effect of HGH deficiency
is irritability and when a person receives replacement therapy this reverts
to a profound sense of well being. Bone cells respond by making new bone
and osteoporosis reverses, although this effect requires two or more years
for completion. Fat cells respond by giving up their little lives as they
are burned for energy. The weight gain around the middle, which is so characteristic
of HGH deficiency, melts away in a few months. Muscle cells respond by
becoming larger and stronger, especially in the upper body. The strength
and endurance of youth reappears. Many people are able to read without
reading glasses again as the diary muscle of the eye becomes stronger again. |
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Given
the many function of HGH, it, more than any other hormone, determines the
physical changes which are an expression of aging. Predictably, levels
of HGH fall off progressively with age. With what we know about HGH, it
really should be renamed to HVH: human vitality hormone.
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| Total Hormone Rejuvenation Therapy |
| The idea is to bring all your hormone
levels back to the level you enjoyed when you were in your early twenties.
After that, your hormone levels have been, almost surely, on a downhill
course. You may have called it “normal aging,” but another term for it
would be “multiple system degenerative disease.” |
| If it is not necessary to have the
problems brought on by the symptoms of the disease called aging, then why
put up with it? |
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