Anti-Aging Medicine

The prevention of disease and the maintenance of high function is what we all want. All the old standards – a healthy diet, exercise, and sleep still apply. Anti-Aging medicine consists of many different strategies or tools to improve cell function and thereby system function, and thus improve the health and well being of the individual. The prevention of the deteriorating effects of aging and their associated diseases can vastly improve and change the course of patient’s lives leading to other positive and productive effects rippling outward toward families, friends, and their communities.

The aging process is relentless – we live in time. But if we were to accumulate fewer chronic diseases our lives would retain their youthfulness and productivity. An unhealthy 40 year old can have a life which is more restrictive than a healthy 80 year old. Aging gracefully really means not acquiring chronic diseases or at least treating them in the least invasive, least toxic ways, which is most often the least costly as well. Scientific advances are happening in every area of medicine all around you. Which of these discoveries provides useful clinical treatment requires constant reading, research, and evaluating patient outcomes. Clinical trials happen with every treatment with every patient. The most difficult persistent problems require searching for deeper/other solutions. Each field in medicine has its most challenging cases and diseases. Sometimes the treatment successes will come from these different fields. For example; Their are certain patients who are excessively allergic, or who become allergic as they age. In many of these cases their hyper-reactive allergenic immune system was triggered by a lowered metabolism due either to the slowing occurring from aging, or from other trauma (infectious, surgical, emotional, accidental, etc.).

By raising the metabolism of these patients, this immune dysfunction is alleviated or decreased. Other typical hypothyroid symptoms like excessive tiredness, excessive coldness, dry skin, itching, hair loss, brittle nails, constipation often disappear as well. My method of raising thyroid metabolism differs from most endocrinologists or internists who gauge metabolism just from a TSH and T4 perspective. My goal is to get the free circulating main thyroid hormone - FT3 into the upper 20% of the normal range while getting the ratio of the total T3/ reverse T3 between 10 and 15. This technique raises the metabolism optimally. I’ve had great success at treating many difficult medical problems using this technique including Meniere’s disease, chronic stomatitis, neuralgias, autoimmune disease, excessive tiredness, excessive coldness, constipation, and hair loss, dry skin, and hives. Improvements in cognition, memory, and mood can result as well. Raising other hormone levels can also have other health benefits. Raising Testosterone levels has improved libido, mood, and energy levels in men. Raising Estrogen levels in women has also been helpful but one must take into account how the estrogen is metabolized and emphasize the benign pathway. More recently there has been a link between low aldosterone (an adrenal hormone) and presbyacusis (aging related sensorineural hearing loss) and Meniere’s disease as well. Raising aldosterone levels in patients whose levels are low may improve their hearing loss. The pituitary’s hGH - human growth (and repair) hormone can now be elevated without the use of expensive injections using advanced technology to facilitate sublingual absorption.

There are other bodily substances that also decline with aging. For instance, Glutathione (the body’s premiere antioxidant) levels decrease by 10% per decade after age 20. This 3 amino acid peptide, which you cannot increase by its ingestion, is necessary to reduce intracellular oxidative stress – free radical formation and damage, which is a natural consequence of oxidative processes inside the cell in the production of energy.

Decreased glutathione levels are a major reason why aging people have much more inflammation contributing to chronic diseases and arthritis. I increase this with the supplement – Maxgxl, which has been proven to increase intracellular levels of glutathione by 200-400% and thereby received a compositional patent. It reduces intracellular oxidative stress, which improves cell energy and function. See www. max.com/doctordon for more information. Clinically, I’ve seen a reduction in general osteoarthritis 30-60% and a reduction in autoimmune inflammatory diseases sometimes by as much as 75%, along with the beneficial ‘side’ effects of increased energy and mental clarity – routinely! I’ve seen significant control of skin inflammatory diseases with maxgxl as well. Maxgxl together with three other supplements are used to treat and prevent presbyacusis - age related sensorineural hearing loss. See the Nyack Hearing Center page for further details.

Another supplement I’ve recently become acquainted with is ASEA (see www.teamasea.com/doctordon for more information), which claims to increase the reductants and oxidants available intracellularly to more effectively neutralize the intracellular oxidative stress (along with glutathione). This intracellular inflammation damages the cells abilities to function normally. When increased, the damage will trigger the immune system resulting in inflammation. This may also cause the cells to become cancerous. When the cell is so compromised that it cannot return to normal function, then a series of steps ensue which results in that cells death (called apoptosis). This mechanism is important so that poorly functioning cells can be eliminated which otherwise would destroy health. Smaller amounts of inflammation will cause cells to dysfunction and, if chronic, will contribute to many diseases including cancer.

Because obesity is so widespread and responsible for many chronic diseases, I've also added the HCG Diet Protocol for weight loss. This is very effective even in stubborn cases. Obesity is also aging related and is associated with many, many chronic diseases.

Another supplement Silversol has also been very helpful in controlling stubborn infectious and inflammatory diseases. There are other supplements which effect/improve the genetic expression of the cells like resveretrol and benegene. These compounds may prove invaluable in sustaining health. They can increase health and longevity. Autologus (your own) stem cells hold tremendous promise for the treatment and cure of numerous ailments with minimal side effects. I’m sure as knowledge increases, there will be more outcomes data leading to more effective opportunities to intervene and prevent disease and expand health. It is a great joy to be able to provide this kind of intervention knowing fully that preventing disease is far less costly on many levels, than treating it once it’s occurred.