Nearly all anti-aging experts agree that the key to vitality, performance, and juvenility into old age is that all endocrine glands in the human body must release the correct amount of hormones. But, while we are still discussing in Austria and Germany whether hormone replacement is justifiable at a certain age, the debate at leading scientific anti-aging conferences in the U.S. and Asia is no longer about “if”, but only about “when to start” and “at which dosage”.
However, the important issue of hormone therapies is that bioidentical hormones are administrated. Unfortunately, bioidentical hormones are not commonly used in menopausal therapy, but rather artificial hormone-like medication, whose negative side effects have meanwhile been proven in large-scale studies. Therefore, if one is talking about an “increased risk of breast cancer”, it has to be emphasized that there is an increased risk once artificial “pseudo estrogens” are administered in a high-dose monotherapy, which is a non-physiological practice.
An effective anti-aging treatment always begins with a comprehensive analysis of all relevant hormones, determination of hormone deficiencies and a subsequent therapy with bioidentical hormones that are as natural as possible. Naturally, human growth hormone (HGH) can also be administered, if there is a deficiency. Contrary to the frequently spread, scientifically overhauled opinion that HGH obviously can promote cancer, it is exactly the opposite, due to the fact that it even protects against cancer if used properly.
In every hormone therapy, the balance between the different hormones must be taken into particular consideration. If hormones are in balance with one another, everything seems to be easier, even losing weight. Our patients feel and notice impressive rejuvenation by up to 15 years once they are treated with bioidentical hormones. And the good news is – through these treatments, many of the alternative anti-aging measures, which mostly involve self-mortification, can be totally avoided!
Together with the cutting edge area of anti-aging and cosmetic medicine, the autologous stem cells that are obtained from autologous fat by means of special procedures using microcannular liposuction, bioidentical hormones are an important pillar of New Cosmetic Surgery which enables impressive aesthetic treatments: Rejuvenation as well as tightening of face and eyelids make facelifts and eyelid surgeries unnecessary even now, and also body contouring and breast augmentations with stem cell-enriched autologous fat without silicone!
DDr. Heinrich, MD