Each year, more than 79,000 Americans die from preventable illnesses. For most patients, however, medicine continues to be focused more on treating illnesses, rather than emphasizing prevention, early detection and wellness.

Internists in traditional practices see in excess of 2,500 patients per year. As a result, an average visit with an internist in this country lasts on average of only nine minutes. That may be enough time to treat a minor illness, but, in-depth medical problems and preventive medicine counseling requires lengthy assessment and evaluation.

Adult Hormone Deficiencies: Adult Hormone Deficiencies can lead to clinical syndromes, medical illnesses and diseases that can enhance the aging phenomenon. We age because our hormones decline and become unbalanced. When hormones are restored to their youthful levels, balance is reinstated. Age is inevitable, aging is not.

Adult hormones can: Determine emotion, influence perception, and shape behavior.
Hormone deficiencies are not just a problem of aging, they generate emotional symptoms, create perceptual distortions and affect the ability to think.

Stress Facts: We all have excessive stress every day. We are mostly unaware of these experiences. Stress is not a circumstance, but a response to a circumstance.

Excessive stress causes impaired performance, physical symptoms, and diseases:
Stress is manageable, but, if you do nothing to alleviate your stress, it can markedly impair your health!! Stress can accelerate disease processes and negatively affect adult hormone levels. Chronic stress with associated depression rapidly accelerates aging and functional capacity.

'The asset most closely tied to wealth is health'