This week’s conversation was stimulated by an article in January’s Endocrine News written by Sundeep Khosla, MD. The author of the article interviewed Dr. Khosla about a presentation he was making to a national conference.

You may think that people who take vitamins are crazy or hypochondriacs, but it is a valid truth that vitamins are vital to the enzyme pathways that make our bodies metabolize food into energy, grow, move, and think. Sadly in the 21st century, in societies like ours, with an abundance of food, most of us are still undernourished in the most important nutrients—vitamins.

Did you know that vitamin D is made by your body in response to being out in the sun? the less exposure you have to the sun the less vitamin D you make. You can supplement your body’s natural amount of vitamin D by taking supplements that you can buy at a health food store or from a physician.

Seasonal Affective Disorder, (SAD), is a form or type of depression. It happens in a recurring pattern either at the beginning of winter or at the beginning of summer. Such a diagnosis must meet the major criteria for a major depression, but it happens at the same time every year when the weather conditions change, and you must have had it for two years running or more in order to qualify for the diagnosis

We have been talking about peptides, the “pieces of proteins” that are the local communicators in our body that disappear with illness and age. We have been talking about these peptides for the last few Healthcasts and now it is time to discuss which peptides we can use as treatment to keep us healthy as we age.

Peptides production in the body, are at their peak when we are in our youthful fertile years, between 12 and 40. If we do not replace testosterone and or estradiol when they become deficient in our 40’s or 50’s, then peptide production also falls rapidly, and all of our systems begin to break down faster than they can be repaired. This has a lot to do with what we call aging, and it is what anti-aging medicine is focused on fighting.

In the last year we have began using a treatment called “Peptides” that have helped us finally resolved some of our more difficult diagnostic challenges. Today we will help you learn the secret method of healthy aging beyond the hormone pellet replacement.

This week, Dana is going to inform us about the anti-aging treatments that make our necks look better. Having Jowls and wrinkled necks are two of the things which make us look old. A lifetime of sun and wind damages our skin and make sour neck look old and fragile. We will learn about what we can do to inhibit and even reverse many of the damaging things that can happen to our necks that make them look old.

At BioBalance Skin, since it is a medical spa, Dr. Maupin has to go to all of the trainings and learns how to use all of the equipment so that she feels comfortable supervising the treatments that we provide here. This is not required but it is the extra step forward that Dr. Maupin always takes to provide the best in anti-aging medical treatments.

Exercise improves your overall feeling of well-being and helps get you to your ideal weight and muscle mass. You may find yourself asking why you should go to this effort and what benefits you will obtain if you do? This list of gains and benefits will help us answer the question and hopefully encourage you to try to accomplish these goals: