Age Management Panama practices 21st century medicine focused on optimal health and disease risk prevention. Our mission is to keep patients mentally sharp, physically fit and disease resistant. Age Management Panama was founded in 2007 and is located in Panama City at the Consultorios Medicos Punta Pacifica, attached to the Johns Hopkins-Punta Pacifica Hospital.
We are proud to be the only center offering physician training in age management medicine in Latin America. Along with advancing state-of-the-art health and upholding the most rigorous health plan available in proactive evidenced based medicine, Age Management Panama offers prices at 60 to 70 percent of prices in the United States.
The practice of age management medicine is best defined as the practice of preventive medicine through a synergy of hormone modulation, optimal nutrition (including supplementation) and sustained exercise. Hormone modulation involves adjusting downward those hormones that accelerate the aging process and adjusting upward those hormones that reverse the symptoms of aging.
You can count on progressive, evidence-based solutions for your health, delivered by dedicated doctors who are specifically trained and certified. Each has completed mandatory physician training in age management medicine, which provides our physicians with the expertise to practice age management medicine. We start with facts: our specialty, age management medicine, incorporates well-known and widely-accepted markers of disease risk into an analysis that serves as the foundation for proactive medical management.
Your age management physician begins with a comprehensive evaluation to determine your specific metabolism, your endocrine system's functionality and your overall physiology. Next, we take corrective actions to help your body function at the highest-possible level. We'll focus on a program of sound nutrition, nutraceutical supplementation, specific exercise and, if our intensive evaluation reveals diminished levels, hormone optimization.
Our goals in age management medicine are simply to enhance quality of life and to extend the potential life span of each of our patients. Some of the things we try to accomplish for our patients are to increase muscle mass, bone density, strength, energy and aerobic capacity, to elevate mood, improve sleep, reduce blood sugar, cure diabetes, reduce body fat, enhance immunity and decrease the frequency of illness, improve the cholesterol profile, accelerate wound healing, protect against cancer and heart disease and improve skin tone.
To accomplish these measures, we use a number of methods but our primary tool is education. An informed patient is able to make better decisions about his or her care, so he or she is also given wide-ranging material to read about hormone therapy, nutrition and the importance of lifestyle issues.
All protocols are based on thorough and comprehensive evaluations, part of which are begun prior to the patient's visit with an extensive medical, nutritional and exercise history, a psychological profile and a listing of all products that the patient is taking, both over-the-counter and prescription. Also included is a Comprehensive Base Line Laboratory Examination, the blood draw for which is done conveniently at the patient's home or office.
The patient's actual visit is approximately a 6-8 hour process devoted entirely to completing the evaluations. The patient is given VIP service from the airport and when arrives to the center is offered healthy snacks and, if requested, a healthy gourmet lunch.
Diagnostic testing is performed in the following areas:
Between the physician and the nutritionist, we spend over four hours face-to-face, one-on-one with patients, educating them specifically about their health and how to improve it. Patients leave with a better knowledge of how and why certain foods in their particular diet accelerate the aging process, invite illness, shorten life span and hinder quality of life. On the other hand, they also learn which foods slow aging, prevent disease and enhance quality of life.
They learn how exercise plays a role in these events as well, and what particular type of exercise is best for them. We teach them which nutritional supplements are important and why and back that up with citations from medical literature. We also explain hormone modulation in depth, so they have an understanding of which hormones are harmful and should be reduced, and which hormones are helpful and should be raised back to or near the level of a healthy young adult. A great deal of time is spent stressing the importance of following a low glycemic diet and teaching the patient how to incorporate such a diet in his or her lifestyle, how to consume more healthy fats that prevent disease and how to avoid unhealthy fats that promote disease. We also teach them what the right amount of protein is for their size and activity level and how best to obtain it.
With regard to hormone modulation, our primary goal is to reduce insulin and reduce cortisol levels. These are two hormones that promote aging and promote degenerative disease. We then focus on the hormones for men and women that enhance quality of life and help prevent disease. For women, based on their individual needs, these may involve Natural Bio-Identical Estrogen, Natural Bio-Identical Progesterone, DHEA, Natural Bio-Identical Testosterone, Thyroid Hormone, Recombinant Human Growth Hormone and/or Melatonin. For men, also based on individual needs, it may involve DHEA, Testosterone, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, Melatonin, Thyroid Hormone and/or Recombinant Human Growth Hormone.
Until slightly over a decade ago, there was no medical specialty to deal with slowing down and reversing many of the signs of aging from the inside out. While human Growth Hormone (hGH) had been used for over 50 years in the treatment of hormone deficient children, the New England Journal of Medicine published a groundbreaking clinical study on July 5, 1990, by Dr. Daniel Rudman. The study involved 12 sedentary men (ages 61 to 81) and demonstrated that human Growth Hormone (hGH) supplementation for mature, sedentary adults – even without lifestyle changes – could result in improved health and potentially reverse the signs and symptoms of aging. Follow-up studies led Rudman and other pioneers in the field to conclude that physical deterioration associated with aging is not inevitable and that "some aspects of [the aging process] can be prevented or reversed."
We are in the early stages of understanding the benefits of endocrine balance and the possible role of growth hormone supplementation in adult onset deficiency. Although we cannot yet affect aging at the cellular level, the possibility of a higher-quality life – through improving the signs and symptoms of aging – is now upon us.
Good health is not an accident; it requires your active participation. Even geneticists agree that over 60 percent of what happens to us is within our own control. And since your health is a most-treasured asset, it should never be put on the "backburner." That's why our focus at Age Management Panama is to help you avoid premature disability and death.
The stressful lives we lead increase our need to stay in optimal physical and mental condition. I'm sure you recognize the most serious thing that could possibly happen in your lifetime is the loss of your own productivity – which ultimately affects not only you, but your family and loved ones. We believe making health a top priority ultimately gives you the opportunity to fulfill your goals and dreams.
We encourage you to learn the state of your health so you can strive to maintain the highest-quality life. The evaluation process helps you do that. In fact, it is critical to understanding your current state of health, as well as to detecting and treating the deficiencies and problems existing before a serious negative clinical event occurs.
You are at the age where the decisions you make today will determine the future of your health. We would like to partner with you to guarantee you the best opportunity for a long and vigorous life. Age Management Panama helps its patients realize remarkable health goals: boosting energy and sexuality, reducing body fat and increasing lean muscle, improving cholesterol scores, strengthening immune systems, lifting moods, managing stress and improving cognitive function.
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