Hormones Still A "Rabbit Hole" Even At A4M - Anti-aging Medicine - Largest/Best Longevity Conference of the Year 2023!

Dec 17, 2023

As many of you know I battled herniated discs and an adverse reaction to a regenerative platelet lysate procedure.

Still hopped (well, maybe not so vigorously) a plane to Vegas to interact, speak and “hang” with 5,500 docs and 600 booths.

A4M - Longevity Anti-Aging Medicine: The largest anti-aging event of the year.

I spoke on the true anti-aging tool of maintaining and/or revolumizing the size of the hippocampus.

This tiny part of the brain is where the “physiological analogy of our soul” lives.

Here resides the 3 M’s: Me-ness or our sense of self, memories, & motivation.

This is what shrinks before neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, initiate.

We want to keep our hippocampus healthy. With good volume, or size.

Thank nature that the hippocampus is like the liver, even if it “shrinks’ with time and lack of hormones, it can be revolumized. If it has not gone too pathological. There is a point of no return, but lots of wiggle room before this occurs.

Here are some snippets that you may enjoy.

My “surprise” B-party with dear, dear amazing friends, truly phenomenal folk who also come to this event, is at the end. Warmed my heart.

Here is the “Elton John of hormonal medicine”, the one and only Uzzi Reiss MD from Beverly Hills.

Dr. Reiss and Dr. J. Wright (So lucky to have as my mentor from 1977 foreword) both put bio-identical hormones on the map!

The amazing Dr. Erika Swartz had just interviewed me for the A4M Longevity podcast, so this pic is of the three of us.

To share how misunderstood hormones are, quite a number of us lectured on the anti-aging effects of hormones. While other docs actually said things like, “hormones accelerate aging” or “hormones drive and cause cancer”.

No wonder all the confusion!

Even at these events you gotta figure out whose “science” you will follow.

Here I was discussing the functional MRI study that tracked which dosage of estradiol replacement started to “enlarge” the volume of the hippocampus. This is true anti-aging at the level of the brain, at the level of where “our sense of self” lives.