What is Age Management Medicine?

Age Management  Medicine focuses on optimizing your health and enhancing your quality of life while simultaneously reducing the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, bone fractures and dementia.

There is a powerful, scientifically confirmed connection between metabolism and aging. In its broadest sense, “metabolism” is a network of numerous processes that take place within the body. Your metabolism is at the heart of every chemical change that occurs in your system. All major cellular activity, every vital chemical process, every organ function – all are impacted by metabolic processes. Our bodies are walking, talking laboratories operating twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, keeping us ticking and moving and alive. Hormones are the “change agents” of metabolism, directing the activities of cells, chemicals and organs.

Aging brings with it a decline in hormone effectiveness and hormonal decline, in turn, weakens the body’s metabolic functioning. The result? Metabolic “slow down” including weight gain (the spare tire), thinning hair, loss of muscle, poor recovery from exercise, decreased strength, energy, sexual function and cognition. Most people are familiar with the markers of aging but do not appreciate how hormonal decline, which begins in the 30's, undermine optimal metabolic function and lead to disorders of aging such as diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and more.

Age Management Medicine aims to reverse this decline which leads to unhealthy aging. It is the science of “metabolic optimization,” proactively addressing hormones and other elements which, in turn, reinvigorate the body’s metabolic processes. Disorders of aging are NOT inevitable. They can be prevented or, if detected, reversed before health is significantly affected.