MEN’S HEALTH

Men's Health services offered in Bellevue, WA

Here at Serenity Rejuvenation Center, we offer some of the best results in functional medicine for their patients. We embrace this change and employ it, because it can bring about an improvement in your quality of life that wasn’t easily accessible before.Today’s world is entering a new era in mainstream medicine that focuses on preventing the causes of disease, rather than simply treating symptoms. While it is true that no one lives forever, the underlying causes of aging’s effects on the body can be treated safely and effectively. There is aging, and then there is “healthy aging.”

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Advanced Treatments for Men in Seattle

- Is my metabolism fast or slow?

- What is my daily calorie budget?

- How can I achieve energy balance?

In just ten minutes, your metabolic rate will be measured and those results will be used to calculate your daily calorie budget. This budget will be printed out in an easy to understand format that will outline for you just how to use your metabolism to lose weight.

How and Why We Age

Over the last 50 years, research in the fields of endocrinology and immunology have improved our knowledge of how we age. Communication between the nervous, endocrine and immune systems makes it possible for us to adapt and survive in our environment, and hormones are the messengers between these symptoms.

Hormones are molecules that are released into the blood stream and exert biochemical effects on receptor sites to regulate our body’s temperature, reproduction, growth, aging and immune functions. As messengers of the central nervous system, hormones instruct our internal organs on how to function.

Unfortunately, both men and women experience a drop in these life-sustaining hormones as they age. Specific hormone receptor sites in the cells tend to change with age and become less sensitive and more resistant to hormone stimulation. This can result in a decrease in cellular function, cellular repair, protein synthesis, and cell reproduction.

Impact of Hormone
Decline on Men’s Health

As the levels of our hormones decrease and the receptor sensitivities decline, so do our physical and mental capabilities. We lose our energy, vitality, strength, physique and health. The deterioration seen in normal aging results in osteoporosis, coronary artery disease, muscle atrophy, sleep disorders, depression, mood disorders and decreased sociability.

This slow cascade of change can contribute to the downward spiral of an increasingly sedentary lifestyle which further contributes to chronic debilitating diseases – important factors in the development of frailty. Physical frailty can lead to falls, fractures, impairment in activities of daily living, and loss of independence.

Hypogonadism (Low Testosterone) in the Aging Male

According to the 2010 Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guidelines, Hypogonadism in men is a clinical syndrome that results from failure of the testis to produce normal physiological levels of testosterone (androgen deficiency) and a normal number of spermatozoa due to disruption of one or more levels of the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis.

The age-related decline in testosterone levels, confirmed in several cross-sectional and longitudinal studies results from defects in both testicular and hypothalamic-pituitary function.

A significant percentage of older men have levels below the lower limit of the normal range for healthy, young men.

Low levels of testosterone have been shown to negatively impact the quality of life of males. It can present with a wide spectrum of symptoms including:

- decreased libido and sexual activity

- decreased muscle bulk

- decreased explosive motor strength

- gynecomastia

- low trauma fracture

- decreased energy

- depression

- unable to concentrate

- difficulty at workplace

- increased body fat

- insulin resistance

- obesity

- hypertension

- hyperlipidemia

- degenerative diseases (diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis)

Research studies have also shown an association of hypogonadism with opioid usage and underlying chronic pain syndromes.

Testosterone and Prostate Cancer

Multiple medical studies have proven that increasing testosterone does not cause prostate cancer. In fact, low levels of testosterone are associated with more aggressive tumors. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. It can often be detected by an annual PSA test.

A summary article appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in which the authors concluded that they, “…reviewed decades of research and found no evidence that testosterone therapy causes prostate cancer.” In fact, prostate cancer became more prevalent later in life when testosterone levels decline. The authors found no connection between higher testosterone levels and prostate cancer or any evidence that testosterone treatment provokes cancers. Further, research found no evidence that testosterone therapy causes prostate enlargement (BPH).

Are You a Candidate for Testosterone Replacement Therapy?

Here are the steps we take to ensure you get the treatment that is right for you:

Evaluation/Lifestyle Assessment

An in-depth evaluation reviewing your intake questionnaire, current health concerns and goals, as well as looking at your past medical history, family history, medications, and current lifestyle habits.

Analysis and Implementation

Your personalized, proactive treatment plan consisting of appropriate medications, nutritional recommendations, exercise recommendations, lifestyle management, and any other appropriate medical interventions.

Physical Examination and Comprehensive Laboratory Testing

A complete physical exam as well as comprehensive baseline laboratory testing determining your current health status, key hormone levels, and specific disease risk markers.

Ongoing Support and Monitoring

Dr. O’Connell has extensively researched this subject and with clinical training and experience at top-tier university-level academic programs and hospitals, he brings with him an enthusiastic and practical philosophy of rejuvenation based on real life experience. He is a physiatrist, which is a medical expert in the evaluation, diagnosis and management of neuromusculoskeletal and disabling conditions. Physiatrists are the directors or “brains” behind physical therapy.

Getting Started

This Men’s Health program is designed to help you feel, function, and live your best while minimizing age-related decline in health. The focus is on a healthy quality of life for years to come.

If you feel that you may benefit from testosterone replacement therapy or want to get the best results with functional medicine, call Serenity Rejuvenation Center to schedule a consultation and go over your options with Dr. O’Connell.

Serenity Rejuvenation Center

✆ Phone (appointments): 425-644-5560

Address: 14670 NE 8th Street, Suite 115 , Bellevue, WA 98007

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