What is Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) - Hormone Replacement
Therapy, or HRT, is beneficial to both men and women. It is the
process of replacing the hormones that your body needs to function
optimally and which decline in all of us as we age. Natural Hormones,
such as our human growth hormone and our testosterone are molecule by
molecule exactly the same hormones present in the human body which can
be replaced as your own hormones begin to decline. At Maxim Clinic,
your physician will assess your individual needs and work to restore
these hormones during times when it is needed.
Human Growth Hormone (hGH) "50 is now 40!" - The only age-reversing
drug to pass FDA approval, placebo-controlled, double-blind
experiments is hGH. More than 43,000 medical studies have been
published on hGH. Once so rare it cost over $10,000 per dose, it
wasn’t until the 1980’s that a synthetic version was made which
exactly duplicates human production of GH. Finally in 1990 hGH was
medically demonstrated to literally reverse the aging process.
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine (July 5, 1990) Dr.
Daniel Rudman, MD summarized, “The effects of six months of human
growth hormone on lean body mass and adipose-tissue mass were
equivalent in magnitude to the changes incurred during 10-20 years of
aging.”
Testosterone - As men age, their ability to produce testosterone
declines. As this stage is similar to female menopause it is less
subtle. Also, some men's production of LH decreases with aging, which
lowers testosterone production. Moreover, a protein that binds up and
holds onto testosterone called sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG)
increases in older men. This reduces the amount of free (unbound)
testosterone in the blood that is available to tissues, such as
muscles. Aging also causes changes in the daily cycle of testosterone
production. For example, younger men show a peak of testosterone in
the morning, but this finding is blunted in older men. The decrease in
testosterone production as men age and symptoms associated with
testosterone deficiency are sometimes referred to as andropause.
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