Each one of us is unique. We are a product of our genes and our environment. This is what forms us and makes us unique from any other person. We are exposed to different stressors—toxins, diets, exercise, medications, trauma, sleep—and have different intrauterine birth experiences. We are born with a set of original genetic information called genes. So together, with your genes and your environment, “YOU” are formed. This is why we need to medically CUSTOM-treat and heal each person.
When we take a person’s genetics and introduce health intervention, this actually alters their genes! This is called epigenetics. Epigenetics, as defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, reads, “relating to, being, or involving a modification in gene expression that is independent of the DNA sequence of a gene.” Basically, it means that even though type 2 diabetes may run in your genetic pool, you can prevent the expression of that gene in your life by improving how you eat, exercise, sleep, and balance your stress and hormones. Your epigenetic modifications can create a healthier, more disease-free YOU.
Surprising medical news has now reveled that our genetic makeup may not actually be a cause of many diseases, such as heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, obesity, dementia, etc., related with aging. In up to 75% of major life-threatening diseases, lifestyle and environment were the significant causes of onset of disease. The National Cancer Institute reported that only 5–10% of cancers are genetically inherited. The rest are determined by lifestyle and environment! How alarming and exciting! This means we play a huge role in how we age or don’t age.
We have a CHOICE every day in how we choose to age. Daily thought and action determine how well and how long we live. We can age naturally or pathologically. Natural aging is wear and tear, accidents, and falls. Pathological aging means aging by disease and illness. I want to help teach you to age naturally and heal from pathological aging. Although I am traditionally trained as a medical doctor, I have continued my education and further trained as an anti-aging, functional and regenerative doctor.
My focus is on prevention, a more natural disease intervention and healing process, to empower the body to heal itself. I have great respect for traditional Western medicine, and together with my training in alternative medicine, I feel armed with knowledge to use less medications and more lifestyle, nutritional and hormonal modifications to achieve optimal health and healing for my patients. It is important be open-minded and learn about progressive and natural options to live happier and age healthier.
Traditional medicine deals with treating the effects of aging. Anti-aging and Functional medicine deals with preventing the process of aging. The conventional belief is that as we age, our hormones decline. Rather, I subscribe to the neuroendocrine theory of aging: we age because our hormones decline. This is profound! We age because our hormones decline. Our hormones do not decline because we age. This takes aging to whole other dimension of youth preservation and health empowerment! If we can restore and keep our hormones balanced, we can delay aging and its negative effects.
In our work in my practice, we present our patients with a safe, natural way to restore hormones, allowing them to transform their bodies back to health, improving their innate immune systems, so they can feel energy, joy and vibrancy at any age. By restoring hormones along with powerful lifestyle modifications, it is possible to actually grow younger!
If you’d like to learn about what that can mean for you, please call our office. We’re standing by to dispel the myths and share the benefits of bio-identical hormones for your health and wellness.
To your health and happiness… ~
Gowri Rocco, M.D.
