Anti-Aging     

Nutrient deficiencies accelerate the aging process!

In order to slow down your aging process your body needs a complex array of nutrients. These nutrients must be able to work at cellular level repairing your DNA and RNA. In an ideal world you would be able to obtain all these essential nutrients from your diet. Sadly however, that has not been possible for many years.                    

   Essential Nutrients

The essential nutrients that you need are extensive and complex... the common vitamins and minerals are only the 'tip of the nutrient iceberg'. You also need a full array of amino acids, anti-oxidants, bioflavanoids, neuronutrients, certain herbal extracts, enzymes and specialized substances such as L-Carnosine, alpha lipoic acid, acetyl L-Carnitine, ATP precursors and so on. Not only does your body need all these nutrients but they have to be in the correct proportions to each other. In other words synergistic! If they are out of balance some of these substances can combine to produce other unwanted compounds that can do you harm. This is why buying a variety of supplements off the shelf and taking them together can sometimes be dangerous.

Hormones sometimes need to be considered in an anti-aging program. However, this is an area which must be approached with considerable caution and should ONLY be addressed when you have your 'general' health under control by ensuring your body is properly nourished with all the essential nutrients. By ensuring that your body is receiving the correct nutrients, hormone replacement should not be necessary as the correct nutrients will stimulate your own production of essential hormones.

Taking any form of hormones without first establishing the need for them by laboratory blood tests can be RISKY. This is because you may 'upset' your hormonal cascade which is the process in which one hormone converts to another, etc. If you create an imbalance of any hormone your system may send signals to the gland that produces that particular hormone and shut down the natural production of the hormone.

NEVER self prescribe any form of hormone. Only agree or initiate a 'hormone replacement program' AFTER you are totally convinced that it is needed and then only under the supervision of a physician who specializes in hormone replacement and is an expert in the subject…not to be confused with your family physician who dispenses HRT under the protocols as set by pharmaceutical companies.

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