Aging is a disease that cannot be completely eliminated, but like many chronic diseases, it can be controlled, prevented, and even reversed. This can be accomplished with inflammation control, good nutrition, and hormone optimization.

Anti-aging medicine is all about lifestyle. As a society, we have become accustomed to good health coming from a pill or injection. Good health comes from nutrition, exercise and stress reduction. These lifestyle changes decrease inflammation, and inflammation is the source of everything bad. Anti-inflammation equals wellness.

Inflammation in the body causes degenerative diseases, which in turn trigger more inflammation, feeding a vicious cycle. Acute inflammation, on the other hand, saves your life. It is the body's response to serious illness, injury, or stress. Inflammation in these circumstances is a defense mechanism. In short, acute inflammation keeps us alive, but chronic inflammation slowly kills us.

Along with lifestyle changes, hormone optimization is the finishing touch to an anti-aging program. If hormone replacement is needed to correct deficiencies, a bio-identical hormone should be used and titrated to a youthful level.

Adequate nutrition and calorie restriction has been the most consistently proven anti-aging intervention. Calorie restriction has been shown to dramatically decrease levels of inflammatory cytokines. However, very few of us could stick to an 800-calorie-a-day diet every day. Omega-3 can help turn off these cytokines making you healthier.

CRP is a marker for inflammation; an elevated CRP is associated with everything bad from atherosclerosis to cancer. Improving cardiovascular fitness and utilizing the Mediterranean Diet are helpful in lowering inflammation and thus CRP.

Aging itself causes inflammation, but hormones optimized correctly will decrease inflammation. Testosterone replacement for example, reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, improves body composition, improves T2 diabetes, reduces risk of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, and increases levels of the good cytokines. Bio-identical estrogen, DHEA and thyroid hormones, when optimized correctly, all work to decrease inflammation.

My goal as an anti-aging provider is to enable you to live longer and healthier lives through the reduction of inflammation. Helping you to make lifestyle changes to include nutrition, exercise, stress reduction and correctly optimized hormones, will help you to achieve your desired results. Anti-inflammation equals wellness!

For more information, contact Jan Nelson at Balanced Wellness Medical Clinic, (509) 919-4575, jnelson@balancedwellnessmed.com, http://www.balancedwellnessmed.com.

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Inflammation and your health and longevity

As people get older, they are are more at risk for the major causes of death, like heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, and Alzheimers. But some researchers are looking at ways to take the age factor out of the picture, at least a little bit.

A new study, according to IFLScience, is looking at a genetic pathway to boost immune function for the elderly. The study, put forth by lead author Joan Mannick of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Massachusetts, which was published in Science Translational Medicine, focuses on the pathway of mechanistic target of rapamycin (MTOR).

This genetic pathway is important for the healthy growth of cells and protein production, but abnormal function has been linked to several age-related diseases. Function of the MTOR pathway can beinhibited with rapamycin, which stops normal cell growth in the T-cells responsible for programmed cell death. These cells become abundant in older age.

The study itself used over 200 participants over the age of 65; an age group that makes up the bulk of influenza-related deaths each year. The test group received rapamycin, while the other was given a placebo weeks before the seasonal flu vaccine was given to all of the study participants.

People who had received the rapamycin and had the MTOR pathway inhibited showed improvement in immune function. In fact, they produced 20 percent more antibodies after getting the flu vaccine.

While inhibiting MTOR has been known for years to extend the life of mice and other test animals, researchers need to tread carefully when translating the possible effect the drug may have with humans. Rapamycin did appear to bolster the immune system in order to stave off disease, but considerably more research is needed to understand how this plays into other effects of aging before this can be called a true anti-aging drug. The researchers caution against overstating the results of their study.

Its very important to point out that the risk/benefit of MTOR inhibitors should be established in clinical trials before anybody thinks this could be used to treat aging-related conditions, Mannick told Dennis Thompson ofHealthDay.

This isnt a sure way to prevent aging, thats for sure, but it could potentially make a huge difference in a lot of peoples lives once it gets past clinical trials.

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Sometimes, you just dont feel well even though you arent sick. If you arent quite healthy but dont have a disease, the medical system can leave you feeling like youve fallen through the cracks.

But a doctor in La Grange, Ky., specializes in helping patients to go from feeling OK to feeling fantastic and really thriving.

What is health? asks Dr. Carl Paige. Its not just the absence of disease; its optimal function.

Dr. Carl Paige.

Board certified as both a pediatrician and internist, Paige has been practicing medicine for 25 years. But in 2011, seeking a more proactive approach than the way hed always done medicine, Paige decided to get some extra training.

So he completed a fellowship in anti-aging, regenerative and functional medicine. He became board certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine. And in 2013, he opened the Medical Transformation Center.

He continues to operate his traditional practice, Paige Primary Care Center. Both practices are located in Suite 201 at Baptist Healths medical plaza in La Grange, 1023 New Moody Lane.

Medicine is very good at dealing with crises, he says. But it doesnt do very well with the in-between-the-lines type patient maybe someone who just doesnt feel well, or someone who maybe feels well but would like to perform at a higher level.

The transformation center offers a broad range of services including obesity management, athletic performance optimization and hormone replacement therapy.

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