Longevity and Brain Function: A New-Age Approach to Aging
The number of older Americans is growing every year. The number of people who lived to be 100 years old doubled in the 1990s, while the average lifespan has steadily increased.  However, age is just a number, while aging describes the process of looking and feeling old. Unfortunately, older persons may be living longer without retaining the quality of life experienced by younger people. Many experience low energy and decreased libido, develop sagging, wrinkled skin, and have difficulty with concentration and memory. Chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease (heart attack and stroke), and Alzheimer's leave 30-50% of such people permanently disabled. Fortunately, the physicians at the Magaziner Center for Wellness are skilled in treating -- and even preventing -- these common diseases using natural, nontoxic therapies.

Regaining and Retaining Youthful Vigor
At the Magaziner Center for Wellness, our strategy is to mobilize, maintain, and strengthen your body's normal enzymatic and hormonal mechanisms through natural methods. Numerous medical studies have shown that our natural production of hormones falls drastically with age, a condition believed to be caused by chronic stress, genetics, and oxidative damage to the neuroendocrine system. By restoring these hormones, such as estrogen, testosterone, pregnenolone, DHEA, and growth hormone, we have helped many patients to regain their youthful vigor. We also closely monitor your levels of vitamins and minerals in order to optimize them, thereby reducing the body's toxic burden of free radicals.

What kinds of patients do we treat in our program?
The patients in our longevity and brain-function program are:

• Patients who are generally in good health and would like to maximize their prospects for longevity, optimal health and reduced risk of chronic disease.
• Patients who feel older than their numerical age and would like to regain the vigor they once enjoyed.
• Patients who are afflicted with a chronic disease and don't feel well much of the time. For such patients, we are often able to reduce the need for pharmaceuticals by using supplements, natural hormones, and lifestyle and dietary modifications.
• Patients who are experiencing an early loss of memory, such as forgetting names, and would like to recover their mental sharpness.
• Patients suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. For such patients, we offer a program which can reverse the early symptoms of Alzheimer's while preventing the onset of late-stage symptoms.

Our approach to helping you achieve longevity and reduce brain aging is to strengthen mind and body by using a combination of nutritional therapies, exercise and lifestyle changes, as well as specific brain exercises we  recommend to maintain and improve cognitive power. We encourage our patients to avoid caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, processed foods, and artificial chemicals. Our nutritionist and lifestyle counselor can guide you in making healthy food choices and initiating a stress-reduction program. We prescribe dietary supplements to protect you from free-radical damage on an individualized basis, often using specialized laboratory testing to determine areas of weakness. We also perform tests of blood, urine, and hair to check for toxins and heavy metals which can inhibit the brain from releasing hormones as well as directly damaging  it. (One such metal, aluminum, has been scientifically linked to Alzheimer's disease.) One of the most powerful  tools we use to remove toxins, free radicals, and heavy metals from the body is chelation therapy -- that is, direct intravenous infusion of antioxidants and other cleansing substances such as EDTA.

At the Magaziner Center for Wellness, our objectives are to improve the quality of life, relieve fatigue, increase mental function, return the biochemical markers of aging to youthful levels, and to maximize longevity and minimize brain aging through the development of individualized, integrated treatment plans. Our role is to serve as our patients' primary resource in their quest for optimal health and longevity.