The goal of the hormone optimization is to improve one's quality of life and to create an internal healthy environment that provides the lowest possible risk for the various diseases associated with aging and declining hormones. This is accomplished through early detection, identification of risk factors, and proactive strategies designed to prevent disease as much as possible, rather than treating disease once it is established.
Correction of metabolic and hormonal deficiencies as medically indicated.
The correction of hormonal deficiencies, specifically testosterone, is a topic that draws the most attention and controversy. Is taking hormones safe? Do hormones cause cancer? Do hormones really help or do they just make us feel better? Many physicians who are not familiar with the recent medical literature on the topic feel that correcting hormone deficiencies is not particularly important, and that it may be potentially harmful.
The fact is that hormones decline with age. Most men run into their archenemy in their late thirties, forties and fifties. A slow and gradual decline that is hardly perceptible for most men. Contrarily, for women their nemesis confronts them rather abruptly over a three to five year period. Recently, I had a 32 year old symptomatic patient who's free testosterone was 37, which is incredibly low and a 70 year old who's Free T was 210, fantastic! The point here is that hormones decline according to their own schedule. You can submit to this unnecessary, treatable disease or you can Take Action when it is your time!
This inevitably decline in hormones is associated with many disease processes including heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's dementia, abdominal obesity, loss of lean muscle, and osteoporosis. Correction of these deficiencies does not stop aging. However, it can delay the onset of many of the diseases associated with aging and slow their progression, as well as improve an individuals overall quality of life. And for me personally, what is life, if there is no quality.
Low blood levels of testosterone do not protect against prostate cancer.
Low testosterone and age are the greatest risk factors for prostate cancer.
High blood levels of testosterone do not increase the risk of prostate cancer.
Treatment with testosterone does not increase the risk of prostate cancer, even among men who are at high risk.
The aforementioned excerpts are only a small selection of the medical literature that supports the safety and efficacy of replacing and optimizing hormone deficiencies. My goal is to provide patients with the most up to date medical evidence to help them make informed decisions that guide them to their optimum health and wellbeing.
The monumental issue in addressing the optimization of hormones, especially low testosterone, is that it is a legitimate treatment for a medical condition that affects all persons at various times in their life. Quite different than the illicit and hazardous use by amateur and professional athletes that is portrayed almost daily by the uneducated and misinformed media dramatizing stories for viewer ratings. The notion that testosterone is evil, the cause of male aggression, or dangerous needs to be surrendered. The optimization of testosterone and all hormones under the supervision of a physician is treatment for a medical disease. Restoring hormones to optimum levels corrects deficiencies, is proactive and preventative for many disease processes, and helps the individual regain their full, normal potential and the highest quality of life. And a high quality of life is what we all strive to achieve.