The Pacemakers of Youth
Posted on 2003-11-10 11:40:06 in
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"The Pacemakers of Youth"Remember when you were in college and stayed up all night drinking beer, eating pizza, and partying, yet you still were able to attend class in the morning? How many of you could do that now? What is the big difference between youth and age? To a large degree, it is defined by hormonal balance and receptor site sensitivity. Hormones are chemical messengers; receptors to these hormones reside on the surface of cells and are the recipients of these chemical messages. Aging is in part due to a process of metabolic miscommunication in which the endocrinological messages from our master regulator glands, for one reason or another, don't reach their recipients - the organs and cells of our body.
When hormones are restored to their youthful levels, balance is reinstated and receptor site sensitivity is improved. The largest single ongoing experiment in anti-aging is estrogen replacement therapy (ERT). When it was first used 40 years ago, it was for the relief of hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause. But four decades of treatment has shown that it reduces death from cardiovascular disease and stroke by 50%. Estrogen prevents osteoporosis, lowers the risk of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and diabetes, smoothes and firms the skin, sharpens memory and lifts the spirit. But the benefits do not stop there. We now know that by enhancing the quality of life, we can increase the quantity of life as well. Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates an increased life span of 0.3 to 2.3 years for the beneficiaries of ERT.
Replacing the hormones which decline with age, such as estrogen, testosterone, DHEA, melatonin, and now HGH, is as important to the treatment of aging as is replacing normal levels of insulin is to an insulin-dependent diabetic. Tens of thousands of studies in the world medical literature have documented the benefits of HRT and HGH therapy. At this same time, over 10 million American women are benefiting from HRT with estrogen and millions more are taking HGH, melatonin, DHEA, testosterone and other hormones of youth, as well as their nutritional precursors. HGH now sets the pace for all the other anti-aging hormones, not simply slowing the degeneration of aging, but actually reversing it! HGH is the locomotive that pulls all the hormones in the aging process.
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- Although there are now 300 physicians Board Certified in the new clinical science of anti-aging medicine, and thousands more who are now learning, chances are that your personal physician is not yet up to speed in this emerging new specialty. Unfortunately, you don't have another 10 years or so to wait for this lifesaving information to trickle down to the medical profession at large.
- You are dying of a terminal disease called aging so the time to begin your life extension anti-aging program is NOW!
- Visit our Anti-Aging Physician and Practitioner Directory to find who can help you in your geographical area!
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