Why calorie restriction may cause aging

The all too familiar theory that one can live longer through calorie restriction is often touted by the media as the only scientifically-based way to increase one’s lifespan. The main proponent and the one who came up with this theory, Roy Walford, died in 2004 at the age of 79, although he had expected to live well past 100. Due to malnutrition, he looked physically wasted and chronically ill. The same applies to his daughter, who also espouses her father’s theory and as a result looks like a chronically ill 60-year-old, even though she is only around 40.

And they’re claiming that such a diet is healthy? Anybody who looks ill isn’t healthy! Among other things, a protein-deficient diet leads to insufficient quantities of hormones being produced. This not only causes the body to age faster, but also to die sooner due to lower resistance.

Many supposedly “natural” cosmetic and functional problems of aging are in fact symptoms of chronic deficiencies of certain hormones. A diet intended to slow down aging must therefore provide the nutrients, calories, and proteins needed for optimum hormone production. Furthermore, there is more and more evidence that intermittent fasting – as practiced in medicinal and religious traditions worldwide – may be advisable.

In New Cosmetic Surgery, we use bioidentical hormones to raise aging-induced low hormone levels back up to their individual optimum values, which frequently leads to a remarkable rejuvenation effect. Hence the widely-held assumption that rejuvenation is still an impossibility is not true – through the balanced use of bioidentical hormones, it can be achieved and experienced today! However, in some cases liposuction with microcannulas can help to get rid of the signs of aging. Aside from rejuvenation of the body, bioidentical hormones are one of the pillars of Weight Loss by DDr. Heinrich.

DDr. Heinrich, MD

Q & A on breast augmentation with stem cell-enriched autologous fat

Q: How long have you been using stem cells for breast augmentation?

A: Since 2006.

Q: What kind of stem cell do you use?

A: Only adult stem cells extracted from the patient’s own fat.

Q: Could you explain how is done?

A: First we harvest fat with microcannulas that do not leave scars from fat deposits on the patient’s body. From the harvested fat we take one portion and isolate stem cells from it using special patented laboratory technology. Then we mix these stem cells with the other portion of fat that has been already specially prepared for injection and implant it with fine cannulas into the breast. The surgery is done completely under local anaesthesia and the patient is then ready to go home.

Q: What kind of results are you obtaining?

A: Excellent, durable results. 90 % long-term satisfaction rate, completely natural augmented breasts that look natural in every position and in movement, exercising, etc.

Q: How long does it take to see the first changes? Can they be seen immediately?

A: The augmentation of the breast can be seen immediately; after the swelling resolves three weeks after the surgery the final result is visible. Minor changes (small increase or small decrease) are possible in the first months.

Q: How many women have been treated using stem cell-enriched autologous fat.

A: Since 2003 worldwide many thousand women have undergone this procedure, especially in Japan.

Q: What are the main indications? Can this method be used for any case or not?

A: We can use it in any indication of cosmetic breast augmentation or breast reconstruction with excellent results instead of silicon. An augmentation of one cup size per surgery is typically achieved. Augmentation bigger than 1.5 or 2 cup sizes in just one procedure are only achieved in women with a little bit flabby breasts (like after breastfeeding and childbirth), because the flexibility allows for more volume of stem cell-enriched fat to be injected than in tighter breasts. Also slim women can be treated successfully. Very slim women who desire very big and unnatural augmentations still need to rely on silicon.

Q: What are the advantages of the technique?

A: A smooth, minimally invasive surgical technique, silicon-free, scar-free, completely natural augmented breasts – the technique is especially recommendable for women who do want a little bit body sculpting at the same time. The technique also visibly rejuvenates the breasts of women over 40 due to the high content of stem cells in the implanted fat. The technique is also used for facial rejuvenation and – being an important tool of “New Cosmetic Surgery” – for facelift without scalpel as well as rejuvenation of hands, décolleté, etc.

Q: Could you give me the name of other researchers in this area around the world?

A: Dr. Yoshimura of Cellport Clinic would be one of them, Dr. Kamakura of Kyushu Hospital another one. Both work in Tokyo.

DDr. Heinrich, MD

Testosterone hormone therapy for men

Whether men should be given testosterone after a certain age or whether doing so would be considered as malpractice is still a hotly debated issue among medical specialists in Austria. At leading professional conferences in other countries, however, the discussion tends to focus more on “when to start” and what the dose should be when it comes to hormonal regeneration.

It has been a known fact for some time that many esthetic and health problems related to aging are directly linked to hormone deficiencies and hence should logically be treated with well-thought-out substitution. This also applies to the spectrum of “burnout” disorders in persons over 30 years old, because “burnout” is merely a term describing a condition in which the endocrine glands become overworked and worn out from chronic stress.

The use of bioidentical hormones with molecular structures identical to those of the “real” hormones is important in a well-thought-out hormonal regeneration; as is the balancing of the substituted hormones with all other hormones in the body, as the latter are cybernetically linked with each other. For example, administering only testosterone to men or only estrogen to women can lead to hormonal imbalances, which can cause all kinds of side effects.

Obviously a hormonal regeneration must always take place under a medical specialist’s supervision, in order to ensure that there is no testicular shrinkage!

DDr. Heinrich, MD

Breast augmentation with autologous fat stem cells

Clinic DDr. Heinrich® leads in breast augmentation with autologous stem cells

Vienna (2010-04-06) — Whereas US and European medical centers are still beginners in breast augmentation with stem cell-enriched autologous fat, Viennese New Cosmetic Surgery and anti-aging expert DDr. Karl-Georg Heinrich is well-versed in this revolutionary method. In his Clinic DDr. Heinrich®, he has been successfully offering breast augmentations with autologous stem cells to a broad public since early 2007.

“Experiences in recent years have shown that stem cell-enriched autologous fat enables gentle and long-lasting breast augmentation, in most cases without scalpels and silicone,” says DDr. Heinrich, who with his team is researching ways of refining breast augmentation with autologous stem cells. His work builds on Japanese studies that also confirm the longlastingness of the result and the safety of the procedure.

In silicone-free breast augmentation, fat is first gently liposuctioned from the patient with patented microcannulas. The fat is enriched with stem cells isolated by a combination of ultra-modern techniques such as Celution®. The stem cell-enriched autologous fat is then injected in the breast. Living fat cells develop from the implanted stem cells and incorporate themselves in the breast tissue. The naturalness of the results is convincing: the augmented breasts look “real” in every position and in motion. The procedure is performed under local anesthesia. Afterwards the patient is fully mobile and sent home.

Stem cells from autologous fat have considerable therapeutic potential: Along with breast augmentation, DDr. Heinrich uses them for shaping other body regions such as the buttocks, for skin rejuvenation, for scalpel-less facelifts, and for correcting depressions left after unsuccessful liposuctions performed elsewhere. Treating and regenerating internal organs is an application for the near future.

Further information: www.breastaugmentation-without-silicone.com

Contact:
Clinic DDr. Heinrich®
Contact: Herfried Wagner
E-mail: info@ddrheinrich.com
Web: http://ddrheinrich.com/
Phone: +43 1 532 18 01

Autologous tissue is safer than silicone and more durable than Macrolane!

In addition to being foreign objects and looking unnatural, silicone implants have several other serious disadvantages: Did you know that women with silicone implants often have pains for years if they go swimming in cool water or take cold showers? Visible scars are unavoidable with implants, and worst of all the breast wears out after a few years from the weight of the implant, requiring breast tightening operations with implant replacement. At the present time no doctor knows what effect the minute amounts of silicone released from the implant over decades may have on the body. Even if there is no proof that it causes cancer or may be toxic, caution is advisable! Autologous tissue is safer than foreign objects!

With Macrolane, hyaluronic acid is injected in nut-sized deposits through small incisions below the breast. This means that new incisions have to be made for each new injection, which obviously leave visible scars. The nut-sized deposits can be felt as hard spots in the breasts, hence Macrolane is not suitable for every breast.

As to the cost of the procedure: With the manufacturer, Qmed, charging doctors € 350 (!) for 10 ml of Macrolane, it is easy to calculate that the price for a standard augmentation of 200 ml per side would be ca. € 14,000, plus surgeon’s fees, anesthesiologist’s fees, operating room fees, etc. Who wants to pay that much every 2 years?

The New Cosmetic Surgery, which I advocate and for which patients come to me in Vienna from all over the world, even Beverly Hills, spares women undergoing breast and facial procedures from scalpels, plastic, and silicone and means a considerable improvement of health and quality of life!

No medical procedure is entirely risk-free, but any women can intuitively see that there is more potential danger from a foreign object than from autologous tissue.

Gentle breast augmentation with stem cell-enriched autologous fat is an alternative to silicone and hyaluronic acid: Clinical studies from Japan and the USA have since shown that stem cell-enriched autologous fat is an ideal, durable, and safe filler material not only for breast reconstruction, for exmple after cancer operations, but also for cosmetic breast augmentation!

Among the several thousand patients worldwide treated thus far, not a single case of “tissue proliferation” or “non-healing” has been documented, as is sometimes postulated without study results to back it up. It sounds suspicious that these “risks” are merely defensive statements on the part of those plastic surgeons who know nothing of the stem cell method and see it as a threat to their “quick incision” (operation time for silicone implants: 15 minutes) business.

This procedure is very time consuming and hence does not allow the surgeon a “quick incision”. Nevertheless, it produces the best possible results for the patient – the autologous stem cell-augmented breasts look and feel completely natural in any position and in movement because living fat tissue develops from the injected stem cells. This method leaves no visible scars.

DDr. Heinrich, MD

Silicone “careers” and the consequences

I was recently consulted by a patient whose breasts were worn and stretched out of shape after several implants, and she was suffering as a result. As by their very nature the implants covered very few soft parts and their weight had caused her breasts to stretch more and more, increasingly larger implants were needed after the initial implants, which made the thinning and stretching problem worse.

This is a constantly recurring problem with silicone implants. Just a few days ago the director of a German clinic contacted me regarding a similar case. He asked me whether stem cell-enriched autologous fat transfer could help here.

Implants are obviously always palpable, in most cases also visible, and they stretch the breast tissue; it is necessary to explain to every patient that after a few years implants need to be replaced for the sake of appearance because of stretching of the breast tissue, and that follow-up operations must therefore be reckoned with. This means that if one doesn’t want oversized, soccer ball-like breasts, they must be tightened by reduction surgery in order to make them (restore them to) a reasonable size.

I believe that after surgical tightening there are two options for achieving a better appearance:

Breast augmentation using only stem cell-enriched autologous fat. Obviously the augmentation won’t be as impressive, but it will look a lot more natural. This would be the way to go if the patient is generally unhappy with her implants and wants to get rid of them at all costs.

Inserting new implants and attempting to fill out/round out the edges of the implants as well as the subcutaneous tissue in the breast/chest region with stem cell-enriched autologous fat. The augmentation by the implant is maintained without having to displace as much volume.

Because the only way to solve the problem of further tissue stretching by the implant is to refrain from more implants, I prefer the first option, even though the augmentation is less striking than with silicone. However, the breasts stay in shape and the patient can enjoy them for years to come without having to plan on expensive follow-up operations that are fraught with complications.

Shouldn’t silicone implants be dispensed with altogether? That is precisely the question.

DDr. Heinrich, MD

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The doctor’s experience also counts when it comes to breast augmentation with stem cells

I get a lot of e-mails from interested women around the world with questions on the subject of breast augmentation with stem cells. This method has since become established as a pillar of New Cosmetic Surgery and spares many patients from silicone and plastic surgery. Today I received a letter from an interested English lady, in which she wrote that she had a consultation in a clinic that offered CAL (Cell-Assisted Lipotransfer) for breast augmentation. The doctors at that clinic told her that although they recently started offering CAL (= the stem cell method), they would not recommend it because they weren’t that satisfied with the results.

In most cases such statements come from plastic surgeons who prefer silicone implants and do not like to admit that they are not familiar with breast augmentation with stem cell-enriched autologous fat. Again and again patients are referred to me by foreign clinics, where they also use the stem cell method, but still do not have as much experience with it as we do here in Vienna. Because doctors know that I have operated on more patients in Europe with this method than anyone else, they are always advising patients to fly to Vienna to see me.

Many details are critical to success with this method – including, for example, obtaining fat the right way: standard liposuction with regular cannulas only works with patients who are well-endowed with fat pads. For more slender patients, it is necessary to resort to narrower diameter microcannulas for obtaining fat, as it is not possible to obtain enough fat using regular cannulas without leaving unsightly dents. Liposuction with microcannulas is the only way to obtain enough fat in a minimally invasive manner, also in regions that would be prohibitive for liposuction with regular cannulas.

A critical factor for success with the stem cell method is the doctor having sufficient interdisciplinary training in order to truly understand the process and ramifications of stem cell isolation and stem cell implantation. Purely surgical training focuses on manual reconstructive-operating skills with the scalpel. There is no place for training in the area of liposuction, autologous fat transplantation, or even stem cell technology and tissue engineering.

Only the training as a general practitioner (specializing in cosmetic surgery, anti-aging, and stem cell medicine) guarantees you that your doctor is up-to-date technologically and will not automatically resort to the scalpel and silicone, in spite of the fact that better, more modern, and less invasive methods have been around for some time!

DDr. Heinrich, MD

Instant Chi® – Anti-aging and burnout protection in a box?

As every reader of my blog knows, I have been working for a long time with Hormonal Regeneration and hence I know how effective an individualized holistic treatment with bioidentical hormones can be in most cases. The effect of this individualized therapy, in which the levels of all hormones are raised to the optimum values of young adults, is superb! In many cases plastic surgery and cosmetic operations such as face lifts and eyelid correction can be avoided, and when combined with microcannular liposuction, it quite often eases the otherwise difficult process of weight loss!

As an important component of New Cosmetic Surgery, Hormonal Regeneration indeed visibly, tangibly, and sustainably rejuvenates. However, it also requires numerous administrations of hormones in the form of capsules, creams, shots, and powders. Furthermore, it is a rather elaborate and also expensive process, which is why it is not an option as a long-term therapy for the vast majority of patients at the present time.

In my mind anyway, a practical solution would be a biodentical hormone therapy, which would cost less and could be administered in the form of a single pill! My research resulted in just such a compact, inexpensive, low-dose therapy with bioidentical hormones: it is produced in a few variants that are suitable for most patients. To put it another way, anti-aging in a box! I came up with the name Instant Chi for this therapy!

Instant Chi is taken in the form of a capsule a day, generally in the morning. Instant Chi contains bioidentical hormones in perfect balance, and when taken regularly it regenerates and strengthens the body! Obviously the regenerative action of Instant Chi is neither as intensive nor as all-encompassing as an individualized Hormonal Regeneration, but it does work so well that anybody can notice the difference in themselves in terms of resiliency, stress tolerance, and good health after taking it for just a few weeks! Furthermore, the success with Instant Chi motivates many of my patients to take the next step and invest more in a complete Hormonal Regeneration rest cure!

In the meantime, Instant Chi provides these patients with relief from “burnout” – namely the consequences of chronic overtaxation of the endocrine glands from stress and an unnatural lifestyle! Many patients delight in telling me how much more radiant and vital they look after taking Instant Chi even for just a short while!

Enough talk – I invite you to try Instant Chi for a few weeks and see for yourself! You too will be convinced after you try it!

DDr. Heinrich, MD

Breasts like a Hollywood star – completely without silicone or scalpel

Breast augmentation with the body’s own stem cells

Vienna (2010-01-19) — The media recently reported on Hollywood star Nicole Kidman’s larger breasts. Breast-feeding her baby has apparently given Ms. Kidman her fuller cleavage. However, pregnancy and breast-feeding do not automatically lead to larger breasts – the opposite can be true. Breast augmentation with stem cell-enriched autologous fat fulfils many women’s dreams of large breasts in a natural and permanent way!

“Many women complain about the loss of volume, shape and stability of their breasts after pregnancy. Stem cells from the body’s own fat are very suitable for the augmentation of all types of small, sagging breasts, completely without the use of silicone or scalpel,” says DDr. Karl-Georg Heinrich, specialist for New Cosmetic Surgery and anti-aging. In his Vienna-based Clinic DDr. Heinrich, he is the first doctor in Europe to offer this form of breast augmentation without silicone.

Using patented microcannulas, body fat is first removed. After enrichment with the body’s own stem cells, this fat is injected into the breasts. New, living tissue develops from the stem cells.

A breast that is augmented with stem cell-enriched autologous fat feels completely natural and also looks “real” in every position, for the increased volume is not comprised of silicone but of fatty tissue. The liposuction as well as the breast augmentation can be carried out within a couple of hours under local anaesthetic or twilight sleep. Clinical studies in Japan have proved the safety and permanence of this procedure.

Stem cell-enriched autologous fat is also used for the shaping of other body regions such as the bottom; for the correction of dimples and for skin rejuvenation of face, cleavage and hands.

Further information: www.breastaugmentation-without-silicone.com

Contact:
Clinic DDr. Heinrich®
Contact: Herfried Wagner
E-mail: info@ddrheinrich.com
Web: http://ddrheinrich.com/
Phone: +43 1 532 18 01

Quality of the consultation with cosmetic surgeons

A consumer test on “Consultation with Cosmetic Surgeons” met once again with a response from the media. Although we were not part of this test, here are a few of my thoughts:

Amongst other things in the test, long waiting times for patients in the waiting rooms of various cosmetic surgeons were criticized. Waiting times are annoying, as everyone knows. They cannot be avoided completely, however, especially if the cosmetic surgeon is in great demand and tries to take a real interest in his patients. How long this takes depends on each individual case and cannot be calculated in advance.

For this reason, in addition to the normal appointments in my Clinic DDr. Heinrich we also offer VIP appointments at a higher price where there is no waiting time, and if wished these can also be outside of normal clinic hours.

In addition to this, the test brings up the old myth again that there is a special section in surgery that trains cosmetic surgeons. This representation is incorrect; numerous doctors who are general practitioners, dermatologists, gynaecologists, ENT specialists, or have other specialised fields prove the opposite and are successful cosmetic surgeons.

There is of course no such thing as a “Board certified Cosmetic Surgeon”. The medical training in all specialist fields has the treatment of disease or physical ailments as its goal. Doctors of all specialist fields gain special knowledge of cosmetic surgery only within the framework of voluntary additional training. Here the original specialist field of the doctor is not the important thing, but the talents and focus on the techniques used.

In addition to this, cosmetic surgery is undergoing a change at the moment. Instead of treatments with scalpel and silicone under general anaesthetic, gentle and careful out-patient treatment is being done, such as liposuction with microcannulas or breast augmentation with stem cell-enriched body fat. The repertoire of the methods of this New Cosmetic Surgery come from various sectors of medical knowledge. Doctors who have undergone an interdisciplinary basic training and in addition to surgery have learnt to think also in terms of internal medicine will feel more at home here.

If you are interested in having cosmetic surgery, I advise you for this reason to check whether the cosmetic surgeon is a general practitioner with additional training in the field of cosmetic surgery and anti-aging medicine – in this case the results of your operation will probably be better without scalpel and silicone!

DDr. Heinrich, MD