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While we are all aware of the benefits of Botox and fabulous fillers, there is a new movement on the horizon in the anti-aging industry.
Glancey Medical Associates, a team of cosmetic specialists based out of Essex and London, England, have created a hot new Hormonal
and Nutritional Health Program
, geared to channel our obsession for eternal youth and perfection in a new and somewhat less intrusive
way than the fast-track 'lunch break' cosmetic procedures of today.

The Hormonal and Nutritional Health Program is a customized treatment according to individual anti-aging needs, tailored to the results
you want to achieve. Glancey Medical typically receive anti-aging program requests for women in their 20s and 30s to help them recover
from after-birth or post-natal depression.

Women in their 30s and 40s typically ask for a program that will help achieve younger looking skin and a higher level of fitness, while
ladies in their 40s-50s, seek to find a treatment aimed at fighting against the signs of impending menopause. No matter what beauty
obstacle and no matter what age, the Hormonal and Nutritional Health Program has your solution mapped out.

Having practiced the Hormonal and Nutritional Health Program for some time now, Glancey Medical Associates are finding an overall
positive result with patients who are not only looking, but feeling younger as well.
Dr. Lucy Glancey, the Medical Director of Glancey
Medical Associates, explains, “It is no longer sufficient to simply rely on external treatments to provide a long-lasting effects. Anti-aging
also needs to be considered from the point of view of lifestyle, diet, and if need be, hormonal and medical supplements. All of these work
together to ensure that our youthful appearance is maintained at a steady and appropriate level for each particular person”. It is now
crucial to think more about preventative steps that could be taken to slow down the aging process, rather than focusing on the constant
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need to correct our ‘imperfections’ and signs of aging. In our current day and age, where the longevity of youth has gained cult
status, there will always remain the inherent contradiction between our natural aging and our desire to remain looking fresh
and young. Our culture can certainly be blamed for promoting this skewed perspective of looking at external age before looking
at ourselves from the inside.

Conversely, the new anti-agists argue that the key to looking young on the outside comes about from essential inner
maintenance. Cosmetic procedures such as Botox should therefore complement, but by no means be the sole way, to looking
and feeling young. It is this new anti-aging, which focuses on inner health, that many women are turning to today as they
realize that external treatments are only a superficial and temporary solution.

The Hormonal and Nutritional Health Program focuses on running a series of tests in order to compare biological to
chronological age. The chronological age of a person is their actual age, whereas their biological age is how ‘old’ their body is
internally. Chronological age may be affected by factors such as illness, smoking or drug use. This comparison is done
initially through the form of a questionnaire which assesses symptoms, family and medical history and establishing the goals
of the individual. A one-week ‘food diary’ is also kept. Physical assessment usually follows, involving eyesight checks, testing
joint flexibility and measuring blood pressure. Finally, there may be some testing carried out on the blood, urine or saliva.
Popular treatments cater to correcting every woman’s wrinkles or cheek bones, thusly making us all clones of each other
(something which may not suit everyone).
This program however, considers personality and individual tastes: how do you want to maintain your youth realistically? Once the
patient's sets of data are collected, they are put into a computer, which generates the biological age and compares this to the
chronological one. The aim of this comparison is to assess which parts of the body are older, younger or the same ‘age’ as your real,
chronological one. It may sound odd to think of your internal organs as having a separate age, but if you’re a smoker, for example,
your lungs may well be ‘older’ than you actually are. We’ve all heard people say things like, “She’s forty but she’s got the legs of a
twenty-five year old”. So, in the case of an individual who smokes, their age may be thirty, but their lungs might be more like the lungs
of a forty-year old due to wear and tear increased through tobacco use.

The final stage of the assessment involves a consultation with the doctor in order to discuss and suggest the anti-aging
improvements which can be made. The goals and aims mentioned in the questionnaire are considered, as well as the possibility of
fulfilling these given the comparison between the biological and chronological age. Expectations need to be realistic, and the anti-
aging measures (supplements, hormones or diet change) must be achieved without over-correcting.

The key to this program is balance. It is precisely this school of thought which moves away from conventional external anti-aging
procedures which attempt to fill out the lines and plump the lips and breasts of women and shave fifteen years off their age. At the end
of the day, this is an unrealistic goal and the final result looks highly artificial and should be avoided. After all, aging may be inevitable,
but it can be done with grace.