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Traditional Low-T Centers May Be Causing You To Miss Out On Weight Loss

September 28, 2018

Keep your vitality. A life without health is like a river

without water.

Maxime Lagace

A Google search for “Cenegenics alternatives” yields roughly 35,600 results, and it is no surprise why. The world of age management medicine has exploded since the inception of our physician-founded program in 1997. From Ehormones to Andrologix to Royal Medical Centers, many hormone therapy services have emerged in response to the growing number of adults seeking out solutions for low hormone levels. Yet, as more and more individuals continue to prioritize their health through their middle ages and beyond, many continue to ask: How do Cenegenics alternatives compare to the original age management program?

Don’t Sacrifice Weight Loss With Less Than the Best

As with many trailblazers, Cenegenics is superior in a number of ways. We are considered the “Gold Standard” in the industry, and beyond offering the best services for hormone treatment , our program extends far beyond hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and age management alone. If you are exploring your options for achieving optimal health and are wondering whether you might be able to attain the same results from a Cenegenics alternative, take the time to read through the following guide.

From our comprehensive age management solutions that address all facets of adult wellness to our team of industry-leading specialists, we have cultivated a program for which, simply put, there is no viable alternative.

Going Beyond the Scope of a Low-T Center: Cenegenics Age Management

While there are indeed plenty of low-testosterone clinics to choose from, none compares to the robust age management solutions available through Cenegenics. Yet, many patients considering an alternative to Cenegenics might wonder whether such a comprehensive age management program is necessary. After all, if many of the issues associated with aging can be traced to hormonal changes, isn’t HRT enough? Not quite.

It is important to note that while hormone regulation is a critical element in a robust wellness program, for many adults, it is only one piece of the puzzle. Changing hormones can produce widespread effects, from impacting sleep duration and quality to posing ongoing weight challenges.

Thus, while treating hormone imbalances themselves is a logical starting point for patients suffering from estrogen and testosterone deficiencies, a better approach is to treat not only the imbalance itself but also the many frustrating symptoms it may produce, in concurrence.

Female Dr. consulting with man at a low-t center

The Cenegenics difference lies in our commitment to helping you overcome all of the challenges associated with aging. We address health in the areas of sleep, cognition, weight management, libido, and energy levels, providing well-rounded yet individualized treatment to achieve real results. Our team excels in enhancing health across these five pillars through evidence-based, physician-developed strategies.

Moreover, our approach is proactive: instead of waiting for the signs of serious age-related diseases to appear, we mitigate risk factors and facilitate optimal health. Our focus is not to simply bring patients within the “normal” ranges found in traditional medicine. In many cases, these readings are not actually healthy at all, and are based on the overall U.S. adult population which encompasses the 32% of people who are obese. We, therefore, target accurate representations of optimal health, going far beyond age management medicine.

About So Much More Than Weight Loss

For example, we adhere to the highest standards in heart disease prevention with the understanding that 1 in 4 fatalities are caused by heart events. [1] More alarmingly, 50% of people who experience a heart event were classified as “low risk” by the measures employed in traditional medicine. [2]

We use carotid artery testing to detect risk of heart attack or stroke by measuring the thickness of artery walls. In addition to this and other forms of sophisticated heart health testing which are not used in traditional medicine, we perform an abundance of additional exhaustive testing and diagnostics, including 86 comprehensive labs.

This allows our physicians to drill down and identify core conditions causing health issues such as low energy or inability to lose weight. Even expert physicians who are highly trained in optimal health cannot properly diagnose a patient without this extensive testing, which also includes neurocognitive testing, VO2 max, DEXA scans, and more to precisely measure all biologic and physiologic biomarkers, as well as physical performance and mental acuity.

Digging Deeper

Additionally, it must be noted that age-related factors such as hormonal decline are not the only issues responsible for causing sub-optimal health. Exercise and sleep, for example, are cornerstones for reducing the risk of age-related problems including:

With the addition of hormone regulation, the effectiveness of personalized nutrition, exercise, and sleep recommendations can produce tangible results for motivated patients. Cenegenics patients, therefore, experience the benefits of hormonal health along with many more. Burning fat and building muscle, optimizing cognitive function, achieving quality sleep, and improving both physical and sexual energy are just a few of the lasting advantages of program participation. Ultimately, patients who choose Cenegenics understand that hormone replacement is of little value without establishing good overall health.

Overall Health & Wellness

Clinics that offer hormone replacement therapy alone give patients only a small glimpse into their overall health. Yet, Cenegenics clinicians understand how each hormone has a specific job, but overlaps the others to create a synergistic environment for improved wellness.

Our team also realizes that hormone imbalances can encroach on job performance – especially in a 21st-century business landscape where poor lifestyle choices, diminished endocrine system, and ongoing career-related stress can collide.

Because hormones perceptively alter sexual, physical, and cognitive functions, which often lead to psychological complications, our team takes a sophisticated approach to wellness optimization instead of narrowly addressing a single parameter of age management. In doing so, we guide our patients into an improved lifestyle, maximizing health potential to enjoy a more youthful way of life with the following benefits:

Improved Energy

Man and woman jogging over bridge having improved energy gone through Cenegenics program and not only a low-t center

By the age of 70, roughly 30% of muscle mass individuals had at the age of 20 is gone [4]. This often contributes to decreased strength, fatigue, and energy depletion. Our age management doctors specialize in determining whether lifestyle changes alone are enough to address declining energy levels associated with aging, or whether a more aggressive approach is needed to target an underlying cause of the symptom.

Better Sleep

Couple sleeping getting optimal sleep, reducing the risk of health issues

Untreated sleep disorders increase the risk of death from any cause in older adults [5]. More than a third of Americans are poorly rested for more days out of the week than not, and nearly half the population (46%) is unable to achieve the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep every night [6].

While poor sleep is in certain cases attributed to hormonal changes, there are many other potential culprits. Specifically, there is a proven interplay between sleep and inflammation, especially in the cardiovascular system.

Sleep-disordered breathing and obstructive sleep apnea, in particular, can be attributed to sleep issues for at least 24% of the population. By addressing sleep disorders, in addition to any contributing factors, Cenegenics physicians make the greatest possible improvement on both long- and short-term health in their patients.

Mental Acuity

It is an irrefutable fact that the mind changes with age. Yet, neural and cognitive functions are complex, and age-related changes to brain structure and function are not the same in all individuals. Moreover, age alone isn’t the only factor impacting focus, memory, and other cognitive functions.

Lifestyle factors such as exercise, sleep, diet, alcohol consumption, and even caffeine intake can all influence brain health. Understanding the ways in which these factors affect the mind demands an extensive look into an individual’s current measures of health, medical history, and lifestyle.

Through approaches such as nutraceuticals and recommended lifestyle adjustments, Cenegenics clinicians advise tailored preventive treatment programs to help patients minimize age-related cognitive decline.

Weight Loss

Man without shirt taking a break from exercising. The importance of weight loss and exercising and not only treating your body at a low-t center.

Metabolic rate drops by 2% or more per decade after the age of 25 [7], making weight loss and weight regulation more challenging with age. However, it is important to understand that aging, and the fluctuations in hormone levels that go with it, cannot be solely blamed for the obesity epidemic.

It is instead of eating patterns that contribute to obesity, which is directly linked to morbidity from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and high blood pressure [7]. Thus, any indication that a single hormone supplement will accomplish weight loss in itself is a falsehood, as there is no way to achieve sustainable weight loss without compliance to a healthy eating program.

Cenegenics physicians take into consideration the lifestyle factors, preferences, and nutritional needs of their patients to design a detailed dietary plan. In doing so, they help their patients make the transition towards mindful, healthy eating habits that will last, instead of dieting. The results are not only reductions in body fat, but also decreased risk of life-threatening conditions such as cardiovascular disease.

Increased Libido

Smiling couple on beach, man lifting woman up with high libido and a healthy sex drive.

A declining sex drive can take a toll on overall wellbeing, as well as the quality of a relationship. Low sexual interest can stem from a multitude of factors, including fatigue. Like weight management and sleep, addressing variances in libido necessitates a patient-centric approach. Our physicians, therefore, perform a comprehensive analysis into overall physical and mental health to determine the best course of action for each patient.

Overall, the comprehensive approach taken by Cenegenics is vastly different from those of most low-T clinics, many of which promise results with a few simple steps. True health optimization requires compliance with a demanding and comprehensive program. Low-testosterone clinics, conversely, advertise services such as medications shipped to you after a brief analysis. Unfortunately, these quick and easy approaches may overlook some significant indicators of health – which could have serious consequences.

How Cenegenics Differs from a Low-T Center: Unwavering Attention to Detail

Group of Dr. and nurses in scrubs that can help at Cenegenics that treat their patients with multiple evaluation, check-ups and more detailed visits than a low-t center.

Cenegenics’ comprehensive approach to health encompasses patient care from multiple sources, including wellness optimization physicians, exercise physiologists, phlebotomists, and nutrition & nutraceutical experts. They also look at the entire picture of patient health by taking into consideration key factors such as carbohydrate metabolism to observe the ways in which bioidentical hormones are impacting critical bodily functions.

Individualized Treatment

One important difference among Cenegenics and its competitors is our commitment to prioritizing the individual needs analysis. Our care providers treat each patient based on the specific nuances and combined circumstances impacting their health. While we understand that symptoms associated with low hormone levels may be one of the primary reasons why patients seek us out, our physicians also understand that a “one size fits all” modality is ineffective for treating these conditions. Instead, the complex interplay among nutrition, exercise, sleep, and genetic factors, among others, must all be considered and accounted for when developing a robust and effective health optimization plan.

To administer such a plan, Cenegenics collects in-depth, comprehensive lab values on patients at specific intervals. Contrast this with low-T centers, many of which boast a simple and easy three-step process. After the patient contacts the center, physicians from these low-cost options typically only perform a review of the patient’s sex hormone panel before recommending medications.

Yet, this significantly limits the physician’s understanding of how hormones are directly affecting carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, inflammatory markers, and kidney and liver function. More alarmingly, they may fail to address the treatment’s potential influence on prostate health. While low-T centers may perform lab work when subjective symptoms arise, Cenegenics is proactive in measuring the impact of bioidentical hormone use on prostate, kidney, and liver health, as well as other biomarkers.

By processing this information and regularly observing patients and patients’ biomarkers, our clinical team dynamically shifts and adjusts nutrition, exercise, and supplement goals and efforts, as needed, as patients respond and adapt over time. This allows us to make recommendations based on the individual’s needs analysis and provide only what will impact their biomarkers.

The Biomarkers of Aging

Only trained age management specialists can perform a comprehensive analysis of an individual’s biomarkers of age and provide individualized treatment based on these factors. Unlike our chronological age, the biomarkers of aging tell a different story.

Made up of parameters such as muscle strength, cardiovascular performance, bone density, immunology, and mental acuity, they give age management specialists the most comprehensive overview of wellness when combined. Using this information, Cenegenics clinicians are able to develop customized exercise, nutrition, and supplementation programs – in addition to bioidentical hormone treatment fitting the precise needs of the individual.

Industry-Leading Specialists

Group of Dr.'s and nurses in white lab coats. Many low-cost clinics operate under one physician, while Cenegenics boasts 20 centers across the country supported by Cenegenics Partners, Center Physicians and Fellows trained in Age Management Medicine by the AMM Education Foundation

Many low-cost clinics operate under one physician, while Cenegenics boasts 20 centers across the country supported by Cenegenics Partners, Center Physicians and Fellows trained in Age Management Medicine by the AMM Education Foundation. As our Partner and Director of Education for the Clinical Strategies for Healthy Aging course, Dr. Jeffrey Park Leake also co-wrote the Textbook of Age Management Medicine, available on Amazon.

We pioneered the world’s largest age management practice, and with a focus on preventive care, have helped more than 35,000 patients worldwide dramatically improve their health and vitality. With optimal health as our primary focus, we bridge the gap between medicine and scientifically-based prevention, going far beyond addressing hormonal imbalances and achieving maintenance, not just repair.

We also hold our physicians against the highest set of standards to ensure the utmost quality of care for our patients. These specialists are highly trained in Cenegenics clinical tactics to aging, and only 1% of trainees meet the requirements needed to become a Cenegenics Physician Partner.

Our physicians collaborate on complex patient health issues and are continually receiving clinical updates as proven, evidence-based science evolves to ensure each patient’s program remains cutting-edge and effective. Patients can therefore remain confident in the fact that health issues that arise can be detected early for preventive treatment, and that continuous monitoring will ensure their individualized Program is consistently updated to reflect emerging science and evolving goals.

Our Team of Specialists at Your Disposal

The value of having a full team of health optimization specialists oversee your needs and progress through the program is beyond measure: it ensures every aspect of your health is being enriched to its fullest potential. Additionally, with a complete panel of specialists, we do not outsource:

  • lab services
  • diagnostic testing
  • clinical support
  • pharmacy items
  • nutraceuticals

This means all of the components of your wellness program will be overseen by Cenegenics and managed internally. Instead of waiting in a lab office, you will receive prompt and professional service through our phlebotomy network. Instead of going to multiple locations for testing, diagnostics are performed onsite for your convenience. We also have employed, onsite support staff, versus call center or remote health coaches.

Finally, our patients receive custom pharmacy items, and efficaciously dosed, pharmaceutically tested, nutraceuticals with patented raw materials – instead of low-cost, generic retail supplements. In other words, Cenegenics believes that the quality of what goes into the body directly influences the quality of health outcomes.

A Better Patient Experience Over Cenegenics Alternatives

Dr. greeting older couple, having a great and informative patient experience.

While the attention to detail within Cenegenics program versus its alternatives is perhaps the most noteworthy difference, one final factor to bear in mind is the patient experience. While there is nothing wrong with seeking treatment elsewhere, lower-cost alternatives typically require more effort on the patient end.

As a concierge, proactive medical service, the Cenegenics team takes significant measures to ensure compliance with a demanding, comprehensive program to potentiate real results and manage age-related disease risk. Through timely follow-ups, patient-focused care from day one, and an unwavering commitment to your precise wellness needs, our team ensures a positive experience in your journey towards optimal health.

Why Low-T Clinics are Not an Alternative to Cenegenics – In Conclusion

A search for “Cenegenics alternatives” yields thousands of results, ranging from Ehormones to Andrologix to Royal Medical Centers, and it is no surprise why. The world of age management medicine has exploded since the inception of our physician-founded program in 1997.

Many hormone therapy services have emerged in response to the growing number of adults seeking out solutions for low hormone levels, promising a low-cost few-step solution. However, none compare to the original Age Management Medical Practice, Cenegenics.

Cenegenics focuses on attention to detail, taking significant measures to ensure compliance with a demanding, comprehensive program to potentiate real results and manage age-related diseases.

The accessibility to the Cenegenics clinical team – physician, nutrition expert, exercise physiologist and phlebotomist, allows timely follow-up in patient-focused care to guarantee you are receiving an individualized plan designed specifically to accommodate your needs; Cenegenics is not a “one-size-fits-all” program.

Next Steps to Prioritizing Your Health with Cenegenics

Our world-class physicians create a personalized plan to help you feel 10+ years younger. You’ll be more energetic, lose weight, sleep better, have more libido, and think more clearly. Visit our website for more information, as well as to book your free consultation.

Textbook of Age Management Medicine Authors:

Jeffrey Park Leake, M.D., CPT

Dr. Jeffrey Park Leake is a Partner and Director of Education at Cenegenics Elite Health specializing in age management and wellness. Having trained hundreds of physicians worldwide, Dr. Leake is also the Director of Education for the Clinical Strategies for Healthy Aging course at AMM Educational Foundation.

 

Todd David Greenberg, M.D., CSCS

Dr. Todd Greenberg is a practicing physician with a broad range of expertise, including wellness, exercise, sports injuries, and MRI of sports injuries. He is a Radiology Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington.

References

[1] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Heart Disease Facts”. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm

[2] From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Patient—Part III: Executive Summary of the Screening for Heart Attack Prevention and Education (SHAPE) Task Force Report. The American Journal of Cardiology. 2006.

[3] Boston, Gabriella. “Basal metabolic rate changes as you age.” Washington Post. 05 March 2013.

[4] Dennis, Helen. “Successful Aging: Causes of energy loss in older adults.” Los Angeles Daily News. 29 June 2015.

[5] Paudel et al. “Rest/Activity Rhythms and Mortality Rates in Older Men: MrOS Sleep Study.” Chronobiology International. 06 Apr. 2010.

[6] Sleep and tiredness survey. YouGov. 02 June 2015. https://today.yougov.com/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2015/06/02/sleep-and-dreams

[7] Stanford Health Care. Retrieved from URL: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/healthy-living/obesity.html

Contributor: Rudy Inaba Vice President of Health Performance

Rudy Inaba is Cenegenics’ Vice President of Health Performance. He is a recognized fitness and sports nutrition consultant with nearly 15 years of experience in clinical exercise physiology and lifestyle management. After pursuing his Master of Science in Clinical Exercise Physiology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Rudy joined Cenegenics where he leads 19 clinical locations nationwide in their advancements in kinesiology, nutritional biochemistry, and their analyses of industry research & market trending.

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