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1 Body Solutions Rx Incorporated | ||
2 The Benefits and Safety of Treatment with Testosterone | ||
3 Feature Article: Understanding Adrenal Function | ||
| 4 NEW Physician Training Program - Advanced Professional Education | ||
| 5 NEW On-Line Store: Supplement Sale for Clients. 25% off! | ||
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NEWS: * Body Solutions Rx is now featured in Spa Magazine, September 2005, featuring our official grand opening for our rejuvenation Retreats and Clinics in Colorado Springs, CO. * Advanced Professional Education is offered through our personalized Physician Training Program. Retail On-Line Store
| Body Solutions Rx, Inc. A new corporation Body Solutions Rx, Inc together with Dr. James Abernathy, offers unparalleled rejuvenation & disease prevention programs through the key areas of hormone replacement therapy for men and women, clinical nutrition, stress management, and exercise and athletic training. The critical issues of midlife in both men (andropause) and women (menopause) are managed through 4 critical points of service. Quality of life can be maintained by preserving health, happiness, and mobility.
Dr. James Abernathy has over 22 years of diverse and holistic clinical experience. Multi degreed and credentialed in psychology, nutrition, exercise, and health education, additional graduate education in theology, with a proven track record within the private sector as high as the US Olympics (1990) and within the corporate sector working with fortune 500 companies. Dr. Abernathy is a consultant and treatment provider to physicians and medical specialists world-wide. He has been an rejuvenation patient for over 12 years. Because he has been an rejuvenation patient himself for over 12 years, he passes along the benefit of his personal experience directly to his clients, including access to his unique network of alliances and service providers that help him create a complete age-management program customized to each clients' individual needs, no matter where they live. Geography is not an obstacle! The most comprehensive system in the aging solutions arena. | Benefits And Safety Of Treatment With Testosterone
TRT has had a bad press due largely to concerns about abuse and over-dosage in athletes, and alleged dangerous effects on the prostate gland, heart and liver. The answer to these concerns in brief is that though different forms of testosterone treatment have been widely used for over 60 years, all the most up to date research is confirming the basic safety and effectiveness of testosterone treatment when correctly applied in the medical setting. The essential full work-up before any man starts on testosterone treatment is designed specifically to exclude prostate problems. This on-going screening means that the patient on testosterone knows that he does not have prostate cancer. The latest evidence shows not only no increase in his chances of getting it with testosterone treatment, but that death rates from the condition are reduced by regular screening with the PSA and other tests. Similarly, like female HRT, male HRT with testosterone is actually being shown to protect the heart and circulation, and reduce the risk factors for arterial degeneration. Also, provided the toxic form of Methyl Testosterone is avoided like the plague it is, other forms of carefully monitored testosterone treatment are safe for both heart and liver. |
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Recipe of the Month - Traditional Chili: low sodium, low fat, high fiber, high protein. Makes about 8 servings, appx. 300 calories each. 1 1/2 C. garbanzo beans (1 can) Preparation: This method cooks quickly, and retains more of the natural integrity and nutrients of the beans and meat. You may mix all ingredients into a crock pot and cook for 10 to 14 hours for a slow cooked, creamier chili. 1 Cup is about 300 calories. | ||
James Abernathy, MS., PhD., has developed a program designed to transition your office from primarily an insurance-based practice to a cash paying practice. The rejuvenation field is becoming one of the fastest growing specialties in the medical field today providing great results for your patients as well as steady cash income for you as a physician. Your office will be provided with all of the content that you will need to educate your patients in this exciting field. Educational Features:
From the beginning of time, people have searched for a "Fountain of Youth." Although some explorers physically searched for a magical water source, modem science seeks its answers through sound research and good medicine. A significant philosophical paradigm shift from reactionary, disease-diagnosis- and-treatment based medicine to preventive and wellness-based medicine has allowed the field of healthy aging medicine to grow. This rapidly expanding area offers much promise. As an advanced wellness practitioner, I strive to provide ethical & effective rejuvenation treatment. The training program features little known treatment strategies that combine the latest information with nutrition, exercise physiology, and HRT. Information has been collected from over 15 years of practice, renderings from leading scientists and doctors, and research from the original founders of legitimate longevity medicine. Literally, millions of dollars of valuable research and ‘trial & error’ experiences have gone into the material and education passed along to participants of this program. You do not have to put yourself at risk by attempting to implement ineffective ideas or getting mislead by others. The program is presented in an amiable and casual style that is brought directly to you at your office or you can participate in our base city of Colorado Springs, CO. All the material is practical, concise, pro-active, and based on real experience. This same program has generated millions of dollars of revenue and world class status for other practitioners. Much of this depends on your budget for marketing and sales along with an effective plan for expanding your practice. Dr. Abernathy works closely with you and your staff to implement all the solutions. Follow up and support is offered for a couple of months afterward without additional fees. The whole experience is designed to be helpful and create long-lasting relationships with our associates. We invite you to consider a long term relationship with our organization by becoming a Practitioner Associate with an agreement that allows you to utilize our base of operations, marketing venues, and on-going clinical or operations support. We have a huge network of opportunities that will help you build your business. Everything that makes our business successful is available to you. The usual arrangement is that you can rely on our fulfillment of most nutritional products, medicines for a period of time, perhaps a year, and in return, your training fees are reduced. This allows each of us to build a strong network of support as the field of rejuvenation continues to grow. If you would be interested in this option, please let us know. Our professional projects include several important developments: an exclusive pharmacy, manufacturing of cosmeceuticals, development of practice and patient management software, as well as a credentialing organization between the US, Canada, and the UK. We currently offer over 1000 clinical products with superior standards. Our current network is being developed in bustling markets like Toronto, Scottsdale, Myrtle Beach, Las Vegas, San Diego, Los Angeles, Dallas, and the United Kingdom. Our goal is to set a new standard of practice and education for professionals while making rejuvenation medicine more accessible to the mainstream. We hope you will find this exciting and work with us. Please let me know how I can be of service to you. You will find this to be a very rewarding experience, guaranteed. James Abernathy, PhD. For more information, please fill out the form below,
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Pregnenolone -- The Basics Pregnenolone, like DHEA, is a steroidal hormone manufactured in the body. Pregnenolone is a precursor hormone synthesized from cholesterol, principally in the adrenal glands, but also in the liver, skin, brain, testicles, ovaries, and retina of the eyes. Steroids are a large family of structurally similar biochemicals that have sex-determining, anti-inflammatory, and growth-regulatory roles. Indeed, pregnenolone is the grand precursor from which almost all of the other steroid hormones are made; including DHEA, progesterone, testosterone, the estrogens, and cortisol. Despite its powerful metabolites, pregnenolone is acknowledged to be without significant side effects, with minimal or no anabolic, estrogenic or androgenic activity. Pregnenolone has been found to be 100 times more effective for memory enhancement than other steroids or steroid-precursors in laboratory mice. Pregnenolone appears to be the most potent memory enhancer yet reported in animals. Pregnenolone has been reported to not only make people smarter but happier and enhance ones ability to perform on the job while heightening feelings of well-being. Pregnenolone has also been reported to reduce high stress induced fatigue. As is the case with the steroid-hormone precursor DHEA, pregnenolone levels decline with age. Many physicians and scientists believe that replacement of pregnenolone to youthful levels is an important step in the treatment of aging and symptoms of aging. Pregnenolone may be one of the most important hormones because it seems to have a balancing effect. It is a precursor to many other hormones and may be able to bring the levels of other hormones up or down as needed. Other benefits of pregnenolone may include stress reduction and increased resistance to effects of stress, improvement of mood and energy, reduced symptoms of PMS and menopause, improved immunity, and repair of myelin sheaths. Pregnenolone also operates as a powerful neurosteroid in the brain, modulating the transmission of messages from neuron to neuron and strongly influencing learning and memory processes. As with DHEA, pregnenolone levels naturally peak during youth and begin a long, slow decline with age. By the age of 75 our bodies produce 60% less pregnenolone than the levels produced in our mid-thirties. For this reason pregnenolone is one of the biomarkers of aging. Like counting the rings of a tree, by measuring the level of pregnenolone at any given point of a person's life, it is often possible to make an educated guess as to his or her age. Some other hormones that decline with age are DHEA, the estrogens, testosterone, progesterone and growth hormone.These are considered biomarkers of aging as well. Since pregnenolone provides the initial raw material from which all the other steroid hormones are made, some of our other hormones will decline in a parallel fashion. While our youth-giving hormones are diminishing, loss of quality-of-life progressively settles in. We slowly begin to experience physical and mental decline; loss of energy, memory loss, visual and hearing impairment, arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and sexual decline, just to name a few. Supplementing small amounts of these neuro-hormones may slow these age-related processes, improving one's quality of life by rejuvenating the body to more youthful functioning. Pregnenolone -- A Little History Research on pregnenolone, as well as usage of pregnenolone, dates back as far as the 1930's. Human studies were conducted in the 1940's on factory workers to test the effect of pregnenolone on anti-fatigability and autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis. The results were successful and improvements were noted. Even though pregnenolone was proving to be not only effective, but safe as well, it was discarded when Merck's newly introduced pharmaceutical agent, cortisone, was announced to be a cure-all for rheumatoid arthritis in 1949. Soon after cortisone and cortisol came into use, the synthetic steroid hormones dexamethasone, and later prednisone, were introduced. Remember that these steroids are hundreds of times more powerful than pregnenolone (or DHEA for that matter). Because they could be patented, it was more politically and economically advantageous for pharmaceutical companies to promote these drugs rather than pregnenolone. Additionally, these steroids were very fast acting compared to pregnenolone. Users and doctors preferred the quick fix. However, these steroidal compounds proved to have serious downsides, including compromising the immune system and inducing osteoporosis, among other serious complications. Even though cortisone and cortisol are stress hormones that are natural to the body, they have historically been and continue to be administered in pharmacological doses rather than at physiological amounts natural to the body. The pharmacological levels at which cortisone and cortisol are generally administered give them a risk profile not unlike that of the synthetic hormones. Scientists have been studying the impact of hormones on learning and memory for many years. Various studies have found that pregnenolone enhances motivation, the ability to acquire knowledge, and long-term memory. A research group of industrial psychologists conducted studies in the 1940's to test pregnenolone on students and workers for the ability to enhance job performance. They found that the students/workers had a markedly improved ability to learn and remember difficult tasks. It is also amazing that pregnenolone not only enhanced job performance of the students/workers; but they additionally experienced heightened feelings of well-being. The same research group performed a study on factory workers to see if pregnenolone could improve their work productivity. Productivity increased most notably in the workers whose situations were considered the most stressful; for example, the workers who got paid per piece and whose living depended on their productivity. Improvement was noted, but less so, in workers who got paid a fixed wage regardless of their productivity levels. Not only did pregnenolone improve productivity for both groups, but the workers also reported enhanced mood. As previously mentioned, despite successful results, research on pregnenolone halted in the 1950's when cortisone became available as an immediate cure-all. Because pregnenolone, unlike cortisone, couldn't be patented, pharmaceutical companies had no financial incentive to pursue the research. It is unfortunate that pharmaceutical companies are governed by a financial system and healthcare systemthat imposes the requirement that for a molecule to be profitable it must be patentable. If there were half as many studies done on pregnenolone as the patented drugs, pregnenolone's therapeutic potential would be expected to be far reaching. Where is pregnenolone found? Human studies show that there are much higher concentrations of pregnenolone in the nervous tissue than in the bloodstream. Animal studies indicate that pregnenolone is found in the brain in ten-fold larger concentrations than the other stress-related hormones (including DHEA). Common Causes Of Adrenal Stress
Associated Symptoms And Consequences Of Impaired Adrenals
Functions of DHEA
What Cortisol Does
Excess Cortisol
Balancing Your Meals For Blood Sugar Control To maintain proper adrenal function it is imperative to control your blood sugar levels and the following guidelines will help you do that:
An excessive ratio of carbohydrates to protein results in excess secretion of insulin, which often leads to intervals of hypoglycemia. The body, in an attempt to normalize blood sugar, initiates a counter-regulatory process during which the adrenals are stimulated to secrete increased levels of cortisol and adrenalin. It follows that an excessive intake of carbohydrates often leads to excessive secretion of cortisol. This contributes to chronic cortisol depletion and consequently, adrenal exhaustion. Reduced DHEA is an early sign of adrenal exhaustion. In order to stabilize blood sugar, you must maintain a balance between two hormones, glucagon and insulin, which are produced by the pancreas. Protein in the diet induces the production of glucagon Carbohydrates in the diet induce the production of insulin. Insulin promotes fat (energy) storage. When excess carbohydrates are eaten, the body produces large quantities of insulin and little glucagon. This high level of insulin results in more fat being formed and stored. When insulin is high and glucagon is low, the adrenals are called upon to produce excess cortisol (see later on in the document what cortisol is all about) as a back-up response to help raise blood sugar in the absence of adequate glucagon. This occurs at the expense of the adrenal glands, contributing to adrenal exhaustion. Balance Your Meals The optimal level of insulin to glucagon is achieved by a diet that contains carbohydrates balanced with proteins in a ratio of approximately two to one, that is, approximately two grams of carbohydrate per gram of protein and gram of fat per meal or snack. The Role of Fat A small amount [3/4 tsp. to 1 tsp.] of fat (butter) or cold pressed vegetable or seed oil should be a part of each meal in order to help control the rate of entry of glucose (blood sugar) into the bloodstream. In order to make balancing this glycemic control diet easier, you can purchase books containing nutritive value charts, as well as ones containing a glycemic index These charts will enable you to quickly locate foods you would like to eat, and help determine whether they are in appropriate balance for your meals. Making the Most of Meal Balancing As there is no exact dietary balance that applies to all people, it is critical to understand each person's role in the development of an ideal eating plan. In order to determine how well a blood sugar balanced diet is working, one must pay attention to one's own body. For example, if you feel mentally and physically alert throughout the day, this is generally a good sign that you are eating frequently enough and in the right balance. Eating small, carefully balanced meals every 4-5 hours will preclude hunger and fatigue in most people. It is up to each person to become aware of how they respond to the meals they eat. A properly balanced meal with good digestion and absorption should sustain mental and physical energy for 4-6 hours.
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