Our Body's Hormones

How to Get Back What You Already Lost

You've heard the word "hormones", but do you really know what they are and what they do?  Dr. Thierry Hertoghe, considered in Europe as the "father" of bioidentical hormones says this:

"Your body contains more than one hundred different types of hormones, and they pour into your bloodstream at the rate of thousands of billions on units a day.  Hormones regulate your heartbeat and your breathing.  Hormones make men men and women women.  Hormones put you to sleep at night and they wake you up in the morning.  They control your blood pressure, build up bone, maintain muscle tone and lubricate joints.  Hormones govern growth; they make the body produce energy and heat.  Hormones burn fat.  Hormones govern the menstrul cycle and allow pregnancy (and birth) to occur.  They fight stress, prevent fatigue, calm anxiety and relieve depression.  Hormones make and keep memories.  Hormones maintain the correct level of sugar in the blood and tissues.  They resist allergic reactions and infections.  They soothe pain.  Hormones control your sex drive, virility and fertility.  They stimulate your brain and your immune system." 
(From Breakthrough, by Suzanne Somers, p. 130).

Sometime during our 20's, our hormones begin a process of degeneration.  This degeneration eventually produces the signs and symptoms of premature aging.  Hormones are really quite complex, but if you understand that they are critical to growth of cells and system processes, then you can imagine their importance in the Age Management Treatment program.

Our Hormones and What They Do

During youth, hormones are key in our “growing up” process:  we build strong bones, increase lean muscle, build strength and endurance and combat disease.  Essentially, hormones help us mature to adulthood.

What exactly are these hormones?  A few of our essential hormones:

Estrogen
While it’s known as particularly important for women, men also utilize a small portion of estrogen.  This hormone’s primary function in women is to strengthen bones, maintain sexual and reproductive health, burn fat and many other complex processes.
Testosterone
An essential hormone for both men and women; regulates energy levels, promotes muscle growth and fat burning, healthy sex drive and bone health.
Melatonin
Key in proper maintenance of the natural sleep cycle; also a beneficial antioxidant.
Human Growth Hormone
Secreted by the pituitary gland and absolutely key to physical growth of all kinds; increases lean muscle, brain activity, overall energy, strength and endurance, and promotes a healthy immune system, among a host of other tasks.
DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone)
Protects the body against a range of diseases, controls weight gain, controls memory loss.
Progesterone
Important hormone for both men and women and as a regulator for estrogen and testosterone.
Cortisol
A corticosteroid hormone produced by the Zona fasciculata of the adrenal cortex (in the adrenal gland).  This vital hormone is often referred to as the "stress hormone".  Cortisol is involved in the response to stress.  It increases blood pressure, blood sugar levels and has an immunosuppressive action.

Hormones complete hundreds of interrelated tasks that help ensure our health and survival.

Benefits of Hormone Therapy in the Anti-Aging Process

When hormone levels decline, you age.  But thanks to breakthrough science-based anti-aging medicine, you can control how you age.  Men and women over the age of 35: I can almost guarantee you have already had significant hormone changes.  I bet you can pinpoint specific changes: skin quality changes, disruptive sleep cycles, mood swings, interruptions in sex drive, loss of mental acuity, forgetfulness, drastic decline in energy levels and stamina.  Sound familiar?

The identical hormones you had when you were in your 20's can help you conquer premature age processes.  You’ll burn fat, build lean muscle, strengthen bones, improve your skin and complexion, elevate your mood, ramp up your sex drive, and experience incredible energy levels and stamina.