Posts Tagged ‘executive health’

One Day Can Change Your Life – A New Perspective on the Annual Physical

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

Take your “Annual Physical” to a whole new level and learn how to prevent or reverse the chronic degenerative diseases of aging and restore the energy and vitality of your youth. Once you have had the traditional or technological “Annual Physical” and have been “scoped and scanned” to detect early cancers, heart disease, and aneurysms, you are left with a gap about how you are functioning. You can fill in the gaps left from “traditional” or “high tech” exams that focus on screening and instead focus on function.

There is a value in getting the high tech screening exams and it is a convenient and an effective time saver to get everything in a single day at “Executive Clinics” across the country. However many patients who have gone through these extensive examinations, have issues that go undetected and may need ongoing support and follow up. Much of the time is spent waiting for a test or performing a test.

Every year is too much to have the same scans and scopes. In between these, would be a good time to fill in the gaps of what is left out and to get another perspective. The Living Younger Program performed by Lorraine Maita MD in Short Hills, NJ looks at your physical and mental biomarkers of aging and determines how you compare to your age group and evaluates your nutrition, metabolism, hormones, lifestyle, stressors and preventive strategies. The scope of your examination and the amount of practical information you are given is more comprehensive and revealing than a standard physical exam or consultation and different from traditional Executive Physicals.

The approach is proactive to identify your risk of future disease and create a personalized program to improve your health and maintain an active lifestyle. You’ll discover how to make simple and easy changes in nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle and be given a customized prescription for natural dietary supplements as well as bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, if needed. This can effectively prevent or reverse the chronic degenerative diseases of aging. Many people can eliminate or reduce the amount of medication they are on and report renewed energy and vitality, strength, improved body composition, immune function, clarity and more.

Take control of your life and your health. Investing in your health can pay dividends in optimizing your health, performance and productivity in both your personal and professional life. Get a life enhancing, life extending physical exam today.

Annual Physical – Is It Obsolete

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Health care reform may encourage more preventive health, however, I ask, are we looking for the right thing in an Annual Physical? Albert Einstein said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Having done annual physicals and Executive Physicals for my entire career, as well as employee wellness and corporate wellness programs, I still find them to be cookie cutter. You get a Metabolic Profile, Lipid Panel, CBC, Urinalysis and EKG as well as a cursory physical. However, there is hardly any time to go deeper or counsel the patient in depth. Patients are left with platitudes: “Eat right, exercise and come back if you have any new symptoms.”

There is a lot of value in these and you can pick up new findings in some people. What is not addressed, are the vague complaints of having less energy and clarity as well as aches and pains. The answer to everything is a drug or being told you are getting old. My patients come to me after going to their doctor or high priced Executive Physicals, having been told that everything is normal and they are getting old, yet they want a new perspective.

Since 75% of chronic disease is due to lifestyle, the annual physical can show us where to look further yet there is never enough time to get to the crux of the matter when people complain of lack of energy, clarity, strength, libido, muscle aches and pains or have anxiety or depression.

Anti aging and Regenerative Medicine is a field that addresses these issues at the source and seeks to slow the aging process and prevent or reverse the chronic degenerative diseases of aging and restore the energy and vitality of youth. An in depth analysis of diet, lifestyle and personalized metabolic, hormonal and/or genetic testing and a customized prescription of nutrition, supplements, hormone replacement or modulation, exercise and changes in lifestyle based on science and an individual’s unique circumstances can go a long way to address the common ailments attributed to aging.

Give yourself the gift of health and schedule an in-depth Executive Physical with an Anti-Aging Medical Professional who will spend time and leave you with a detailed plan.