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1. What is the Anti-Aging Institute all about?
The LV Institute of Preventive Medicine, Inc. is helping men and women regain the vitality and vigor of their younger years and maintain their healthier lives longer. Through the synergy of hormone management, optimal nutrition, and exercise, patients are seeing remarkable improvements in skin tone, increased mental acuity and focus, strengthened immune systems, increased lean muscle mass, decreased fat, and revitalized sex drive and performance.

2. What is Hormone Management? How does it work?
Hormone management is optimizing, through supplementation, the hormones that are no longer being adequately produced by the body. People are genetically programmed to reproduce and then begin to shut down. The goal of hormone management is to return our hormone levels to that of approximately 30 years of age. That is the age when our immune systems are generally the strongest, our metabolism is efficient, and we build muscle rather than fat. Furthermore, at the age of 30, we respond to exercise more effectively than when we are older. Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is thought to be the body's master hormone. Around the age of 30, the pituitary secretes decreasing amounts of HGH; in fact, 13% decrease in the amount of HGH is secreted each decade after the age of 30. As the master hormone decreases, the other hormones do not get the message to function and the symptoms of aging begin to surface. If Human Growth Hormone, as the keystone, is returned to its optimal level, and all the other hormones are brought back to their balanced state, the body is able to regain its vitality. Because hormone optimization therapy returns the body to its younger efficiency, with the addition of optimal nutrition and exercise, we are then able to live healthier lives longer.

3. How long do I have to be on these therapies?
You should give your program at least six months to see significant benefits. Your body needs that much time to heal and rebuild. You should stay on the program for as long as you continue to want to optimize your health.

4. How long before you can actually see results?
While this varies with each individual, some people feel results within days. You can expect to begin to feel results within one to two months after beginning hormone management.

5. What will happen if I stop the program?
From whatever biological age you have attained on the program, should you stop the program, the body will begin to age at a normal rate.

6. At what age should a person start such a program?
Proper nutrition, including supplements, is recommended at every age. A person does not need to begin hormone replacement therapy until such time as the body begins to lower its hormone production, usually in the mid thirties, but sometimes sooner.

7. Will treatment interfere with my currently prescribed medications?
Generally not. In some instances medications may actually be reduced in level or no longer needed altogether. Your regular physician will be able to advise you.

8. Will the Institute be taking over as my doctor?
Absolutely not. As a wellness program, the Institute is happy to communicate with your primary physician, and/or any specialists you may be seeing. We encourage you to continue your usual visits with your regular doctor.

9. Why does HGH have to be injected?
Human Growth Hormone and insulin are very similar molecules made up of poly peptides. Like insulin, HGH breaks down if taken orally; so the only effective way to obtain the benefits of HGH, at this time, is by injection.

10. Is this type of program FDA approved?
HGH was approved by the FDA for treatment of hormone deficient adults in the summer of 1996.

11. Do growth hormone secretagogues work? What about secretagogues sold over the Internet and advertised in magazines & newspapers?
GH secretagogues stimulate release of GH by the pituitary. GHRH is commercially available as an FDA drug (Geref). It is given subcutaneous injection and is less effective and more expensive than recombinant GH injections. There is data in the medical literature that 20 grams of L-argenine given intravenously produces a burst of GH release. There is no data however that oral amino acids increase GH release in any significant amount and have no clinical usefulness. Homeopathic sprays that claim to contain GH do not contain any clinically significant amount and have no clinical usefulness. Over the counter products that claim to contain GH or increase GH release have never been documented to increase GH or IGF-1 levels in any peer reviewed medical publication.

12. Isn't it unnatural to inject or ingest hormones?
HGH is synthetically produced through the recombinant DNA process. Because of this production method, it is identical to the Human Growth Hormone naturally produced by the body. When injected, HGH is spread to its target organs just as it would be if secreted by the pituitary gland.

13. Do I increase my risk of cancer by taking growth hormone?
No. There is no reason to believe that natural doses of HGH pose any risk of cancer. Throughout all the research there has been no correlation between HGH and cancer. On the contrary, HGH has proven to be extremely helpful in strengthening the immune system, increasing mental acuity and focus, and preventing the onset of diseases usually associated with aging.

14. What are the side effects of growth hormone?
When given in proper natural doses, there are no side effects. In early studies, done prior to research determining proper dosage, there were three rare side effects: swollen ankles, joint pains, and, rarest of all, carpal tunnel syndrome. When dosage was reduced, all symptoms disappear.

15. Does my health insurance cover this service?
At this time, most insurance programs do not reimburse for wellness programs. Much of the program is usually tax deductible.

16. When I'm on the Program, how often do I come to the Institute?
We recommend visits in 8 weeks, 16 weeks, 26 weeks, and then every 26 weeks.