The Warriors of Health and Well-Being
Going to Miami to attend the first open, non-virtual, Anti-Aging Conference in over a year felt like going to a 5 year reunion. What sheer delight to experience normality, as well as networking with brilliant peers sharing new treatment modalities. Covid did not slow these people down, but instead seemed to catapult their creative brains into bigger and better ideas for increasing wellness. These doctors and inventors are warriors of humanity working 24 hours a day fiercely striving to learn and implement therapies to enhance our state of well-being. They are selfless uplifting hope-givers and clinical researchers. The Coronavirus song sent in last year’s April 1 blog came to mind. I share it with you again. Enjoy.
The next few weeks I will share with you what I learned at this conference.
Mark Gordon, MD, is one of these warriors of health and humanity starting the conference off with a lecture on Growth Hormone and Secretogues followed by a lecture on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and hormone deficiencies. I honor Mark Gordon, MD, for his tireless research, passion for knowledge, and development of therapeutic protocols for Traumatic Brain Injury used across the country in active military, veteran, sports, and civilian populations. Dr. Gordon joined with the Warrior Angels Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded by veterans Andrew and Adam Marr to provide medical services to members of the armed forces both active duty and veterans. For more information, visit TBIHelpNow.org. or TBImedlegal.com Dr Gordon works at top speed, “and will until I die” he said. You can listen to his podcasts on Traumatic Brain Injury with Joe Rogan, #1056 and #1589. An excellent article can be found on the website Warrior Angel Foundation.org**
Dr. Gordon continues to bring us research showing the hypothalamic-pituitary axis in symptomatic TBI patients is dysfunctional and hormones are imbalanced. In particular, growth hormone is depleted.
Why is Growth Hormone (GH) important?
GH is the comptroller of the body. When GH goes down, the whole body shuts down.
GH oversees the function of:
- Sex Organs
- Adrenals
- Thyroid
- Brain
- Skin
- Fat Metabolism and weight loss, weight gain
- Muscle Building, strength, and exercise performance
- Immune System
- Repair
- Recovery from injury, exercise, and disease
- Motivation
- Happiness
When GH is repleted, systems can begin to work normally again. No traditional physicians look at GH as a cause for brain dysfunction in TBI unless they have been trained by Dr. Gordon.
Dr. Gordon continues to bring us research showing neurosteroid hormones made in the brain are precious messengers of communication and healing.*
Neurosteroids are familiar words to my patients. They include Testosterone, Progesterone, Estradiol, DHEA, Pregnenolone. Implementing repletion of these natural hormones combined with supplemental nutrition such as Vitamin, D, Zinc and Quercetin, and re-establishing hypothalamic-pituitary hormone imbalances to heal traumatically injured brains is the basis of Dr. Gordon’s clinical research. All brain dysfunctions can be treated in a similar fashion, including Covid brain dysfunction. The implications using this methodology to heal the brain are mind boggling. For example, recovery of patients with traumatic brain injury is greater in those with higher testosterone. Testosterone helps heal the brain. I see it every day in my practice over and over again. No traditional physicians bother to look at, much less treat these hormones that hold the keys for healing unless they have been trained by Dr. Gordon.
I have yet to find a chronic disease that does not have hormone associated deficiencies, and when those hormones are repleted every chronic disease improves, even Covid! Hormones can rule and rock our world!
Summary
- Shock waves may cause momentary “bubbles” in the brain, leaving traumatic brain injury victims with impaired physical, emotional, and cognitive health.
- Military veterans’ traumatic brain injuries are often misdiagnosed as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Discovering that traumatic brain injury damages the hypothalamus and triggers pituitary gland dysfunction, Dr. Mark Gordon now identifies and treats the neurosteroid deficiencies in traumatic brain injury patients.
- Many now attest to the remarkable success of Gordon’s innovative, individualized therapy.**
Have an awesome day. Dr. D