Thursday, August 6, 2009

Renew Your Youthfulness

By Anju Mathur, M.D.

It would be unusual to find a person in middle or old age who does not long for the fitness and vitality of a youthful body. You may enjoy the "wisdom of age," but nobody enjoys the body wearing out and just not working like it did when you were 20 or even 30. While there are many wonderful things that come with getting older - such as grandchildren - it's a shame to not be able to enjoy life as much because of being dragged down by the old body.

"Getting old" is something that naturally happens to everyone. Time has physical effects on a body. Drugs are used to mask the physical symptoms but do not alleviate them. However, the physical distress, the ravages of time, can be slowed or halted or even reversed by making physical changes to the body.

For example, because hormone production slows down as a person gets older, and hormones are needed to keep a body in shape, accurate testing and diagnosis to determine hormone levels can be done to determine what bioidentical hormones are needed as supplements to slow or reverse aging. Bioidentical hormones are just that - they are not substitutes for horomones, but are identical to the hormones the body produces. With accurate tests, these hormones can be supplied to the body in the correct amount needed to bring back a younger-feeling body and even zest for life.

The processes of BHRT are three:

1. Observation by a doctor of things wrong with the body. These can be symptoms from anxiety to overweight to feeling muddled.

2. Medical tests to show which hormones are in insufficient supply in the body.

3. Supplying the body with sufficient amounts of the hormones that are lacking.

Excess body weight, low energy, bad memory, hot flashes, "the jitters," and many other symptoms are not something that one wants to carry from age 40 or 50 or 60 for the rest of one's life. By following the medical plan for hormone replacement, these symptoms gradually lessen over time and often disappear completely.

You can gain a healthy, vital and active "old age," whether it be 10 or 50 more years.

Combining BHRT with good eating habits, nutritional supplements and proper exercise gives the best results. Don't sit on the sidelines of life feeling old. Something can be done about it and you can have a happy, productive old age! - 14130

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