DrBlighMD.Com: St. Louis Preventive Medicine & Age Management

Age autographs face and body. A line here. A sag there. On the inside, hormone levels and energy diminish. The body stores more fat and less muscle mass. Some people experience insomnia. For others, sexual desire tapers off. Age Management Medicine views the constellation of diseases and maladies associated with "old age" as treatable and often preventable. This evolving concept seeks to refine and extend the time you live in optimum mental, physical, sexual and emotional health.

Age management therapy employs advanced diagnostic technologies to aggressively screen for health risks that lead to the majority of age-related illnesses. In the U.S., for example, more men and women succumb to heart disease than any other killer. While high cholesterol is a known instigator in cardiovascular disease, many are unaware 50% of heart attack victims have normal cholesterol levels. Recent studies highlight inflammation, elevated homocysteine, fibrinogen and Cardio-CRP as independent risk factors that should be screened and treated as vigorously as elevated cholesterol.

With age, a gradual drop in the hormones pertinent to growth, thyroid ranges, and sexual function may prompt energy and libido losses, decreased muscle mass, increased body fat, and a general decline in wellness. We can measure and augment depleted hormones to regain more youthful levels. Age management's use of natural, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (HRT) improves flexibility, muscle retention, vigor, and overall quality of life.

Our body, mind and spirit rely on us to eat appropriately, exercise, minimize our stress levels and get a good night sleep. If this is true our adequate intake of nutrition, balanced with exercise, will stimulate and produce antioxidants, energy metabolism and the release of neurotransmitters. Reality: in the U.S. we work longer hours, increase our daily stressors, don't take time to eat healthy, and as a result we experience restless sleeping patterns. Nutraceutical supplements are incorportated into our age management program to stimulate and balance the release of antioxidants, energy metabolism and neurotransmitters needed to maintain mental, physical, sexual and emotional health.

Transformation Rx combines the disciplines of science, medicine, and nutrition to deliver a proven, non-surgical weight loss program. This is a physician-designed and monitored program, specifically created to treat the growing problem of weight management. We will be your partner in achieving your weight loss goals and help you learn how to keep the weight off.

The weight loss program includes:

	Comprehensive initial exam, medical history and screening
	Lab analysis: CBC, CMP, cholesterol panel, T4, TSH, T3 free
	EKG
	Body fat analysis
	Injection of B-12
	Individualized custom diet; meal supplements or replacements
	Diet medications; prescriptions
	Follow-up visits

We believe that obesity is a chronic medical condition and needs to be treated with a combination of medication, exercise, and behavior modification.
Our goal is to reshape you, on the inside as well as the outside, into a healthier, happier person.