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The Truth About Hormones

There’s a lot of information out there about hormones. Like any complex subject, it can be tough to figure out what’s correct, and what isn’t. After reading this short article, you’ll be better informed about the history of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), when and why things got confusing, and what to look for when choosing the program that’s right for you.

Eternity Health Pillar One: Optimal Sleep

When it comes to our health, it’s all about getting back to the basics. First things first, you must create an environment that will allow the body to heal. These basic measures are what we call the Pillars of Health at AMI. They are simple methods to implement into everyday life that go hand in hand to optimize your health. We want to share all four pillars with you these coming weeks but let’s dive into the first pillar, Achieving Optimal Sleep.

Eternity Health Pillar Two: Exercise

We all know that exercise is essential to emotional and physical well-being. We are inundated with messages: Just Do It, No Pain No Gain, Never Give Up, Make It Happen! Medical research confirms that movement is “Too Legit To Quit.” Yet every year millions of Americans make fitness New Year’s resolutions and then promptly do just that, quit.

Eternity Health Pillar Three: Stress Management

We are so excited to be sharing with you our third Pillar of Health, stress management. These stress management methods tend to overlap with our first pillar, Optimal Sleep, because they help bring peace to the body and mind.

Eternity Health Pillar Four: Nutrition

Let’s face it, people love food. Celebrated as a cultural practice, food brings together families and communities. It is both nourishing and pleasurable and ultimately, it is highly controversial. When it comes to nutrition, it often seems that people, experts included, cannot agree on anything. While established that there is not one precise nutritional prescription that is universal law, we stand by certain truths that go beyond the cliché “you are what you eat.”

A New Understanding on Testosterone Therapy

In today’s society, there is a prevailing belief that only men over the age of 60 suffer from low testosterone. Unfortunately, this is simply not true. The symptoms of low testosterone can affect men regardless of physical condition, age or health. All men should be concerned about low testosterone, its symptoms, and what treatments are not only available, but safe.

Hormones and the Effect on Women’s Wellbeing

A woman’s natural hormones control most of her basic bodily functions. Estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone serve as an internal communication system between cells throughout the body. They coordinate everything from digestion and growth to appetite, immune function, mood, and libido. When hormones become out of balance, even slightly, it can have a big impact on health and well-being.

Understanding Her Menopause for Dummies

Menopause does not play fair. Some women will sail through this transition with rarely a hot flash and others will be pummeled in every hormonal hail storm that nature can fling.

Feel and Look Younger in 60 Days

Good news, you can steal back a few youthful qualities and enhance your vibrancy. All you need is due diligence and sixty days.

MEET ELIZABETH BECKNER AND DAISHA ESCAMILLA

OUR CALIFORNIA LICENSED PHLEBOTOMISTS

Liz started doing personal blood draws after her son, Dashiell, was born with Zellwegers disease. His diagnosis required numerous blood draws and drug levels throughout his life. After sitting through long wait times at the labs followed by watching many different phlebotomists, many new to the job, struggle to find his veins, often poking him multiple times, as a seasoned phlebotomist, Liz decided to draw his blood at home and hand deliver it to the lab myself. Soon after she began doing personal touch blood draws so she can now offer that same personalized service to you.

Liz graduated from Pepperdine University with a degree in Biology in 1994. She moved to Santa Barbara and earned her phlebotomy certificate in 1995. Liz began working at St. Francis Medical Center in the Physical Therapy Department and quickly transferred to the Laboratory. Perfecting her venipuncture techniques on all floors of the hospital, including post-operative patients, pregnant women going into labor, sick or premature babies, and emergency room patrons, she then improved her patient care skills working for internal medicine doctors, one of whom was the Medical Director of Hospice and won Doctor of the Year. In 1999, Liz started working with a group of local retinal surgeons. Her primary job consisted of injecting dye into arm veins and photographing its flow through the patients retinal vessels. When patients are worried about their diagnosis or apprehensive about the procedure because of difficult veins, her quick, almost pain free needle stick and kind but professional bed side manner would put them at ease.

The various settings and patients Liz has encountered over the years have enabled her to become very skilled at finding the smallest and most fragile of vessels. Her specialities include infants and the elderly, diabetics of all ages, patients with rolling veins, on blood thinners or chemotherapy. She lives in downtown Santa Barbara, travels from Goleta to Carpintera and brings all the necessary supplies directly to you. All she needs from you is a lab request and your home or office becomes an instant draw station. Appointment times are very flexible, and she is friendly, reliable and punctual. Be kind to your arm and treat yourself to the luxury blood draw you deserve!!!

MEET MICHAEL BROOKINS; BS, CNMT, ABAAHP

Mike brings more than just a medical perspective to his clients; at the age of 14, he began an athletic career as a pole-vaulter that would end up taking him on an incredible journey over the next 13 years of his life. Throughout his athletic journey Mike was constantly working to find the ideal balance of fitness and proper nutrition in order to maximize his performances. Combined with his medical knowledge the years of athletic experience provide a unique and successful combination that serve to benefit his staff and clients.

“After I shifted the focus of my practice from Sports Medicine into Nuclear Medicine specifically Interventional Endocrinology. I found myself questioning our western medical paradigm…Here I was performing thyroid cancer and Hyperthyroidism treatments with harmful radical thyroid radioactive ablations which really made me take a hard look in the mirror and become more of a researcher to find safer and more effective options to better treat my clients. During my research I realized that there were very few, if any, medically directed programs focused towards achieving a “Healthier Lifestyle” rather than typical “Diet” fads.” A few years later after training and working with some of the worlds foremost Bio-identical Hormone Replacement specialists I became Board Certified in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. Sort of just found my passion and the answers I had been looking for with this new specialty finally after years of treating people with the Band-Aid “fix it when its broken” mentality instead of at the root cause.”

Mike has spent the last 10 years in Anti-Aging, Functional and Regenerative Medicine. He has trained over 120 physicians in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and consulting for their practices. Today his vision is a reality, and clients from all of the world come to benefit from the successful programs that have been established at Age Management Institute Santa Barbara. He firmly believes in educating the patient about the importance of good nutrition, hormone balance, stress management, and regular exercise is the key to aging well and having a high quality of life well into your golden years.