For instance, did you know enzymes control almost every function in your body?

• Digestion and absorption of nutrients.

• Production of energy.

• Repair of injuries, wounds, and DNA. This basic mechanism protects us from cancer, and if unhealthy, you may be at increased risk.

• Fighting infection by attacking bad microbes and dissolving their cell walls.

• Regulating your energy production, fat-accumulation and breakdown.

• Stopping the blood flow from an injury, after a paper-cut for example.

• Transmitting signals from our brain to the rest of our body.

• Thought processes and the ability to make logical conclusions.

• Emotions such as love or hatred.

• Having sex.

• Neutralizing poisons or toxic waste.

Enzymes help you keep up—till they let you down.

Those enzymes are pretty busy, aren’t they? Pretty important, too. Without enzymes, your body would be like a car without oil—it would stop running. In face, when you have certain symptoms, your body may be telling you it needs an enzyme tune-up…

• Bloating
• Constipation
• Gas
• Abdominal distention
• Heartburn
• Tingly or numb hands or feet
• Irregular heartbeats

Why are enzymes so important?

 
Whatever you ingest through your mouth will be digested by enzymes and absorbed into your body. That’s why it’s important to choose high quality foods, as well as minerals and supplements; these beneficial ingredients will be digested, absorbed and utilized by your body. The problem is our digestive systems, and the enzymes that rule them, don’t always work as we wish. As we age, our ability to digest declines significantly by the age of 75. But does it really matter? Yes!

Since our digestive prowess declines as we age, scientists have concluded that the effect known as ‘aging’ is in fact due to the loss of essential enzymes. The logic behind this is simple: with age we lose the ability to produce enzymes, which leads to an inability to absorb nutrients. Without these nutrients, our bodies can’t properly, produce enough energy, or fight infections and cancer.

The major enzyme types (5):
1. Metabolic enzymes, which are responsible for energy production, detoxification, etc. They are internal cells. Example: coenzyme Q10.
2. Digestive enzymes help in digesting our food. They break down the foods we eat to make it easier for us to absorb and utilize. Without the proper digestive enzymes, you won’t be getting nutrients.
3. Food enzymes, which assist our own digestive enzymes in breaking down foods. Because enzymes in foods are very delicate, they can’t tolerate the high temperatures associated with cooking. Therefore, these food enzymes are only found in raw foods.
Digestive enzymes are divided in 3 groups:

• Proteases – breaks down proteins.
• Lipases — digests fats.
• Carbohydratases — digests sugars.

Some facts to digest

Here’s how digestive enzymes work:

Step 1:
Digestive enzymes start working in your mouth: saliva has an enzyme known as amylase, for sugar digestion. That’s why chewing candy causes a sweet taste in the mouth as it breaks down the sugar. Saliva also contains haptocorrin, a protein that’s necessary for Vitamin B12 absorption.

Step 2:
From there, digestion proceeds to the stomach, where there’s the enzyme pepsin for proteins, as well as hydrochloric acid. This has some pivotal roles in digestion: it activates other enzymes, makes essential nutrients like iron and magnesium soluble and therefore available for absorption, and it denatures (breaks down) proteins and kills bad bacteria. Another important agent is called the intrinsic factor, which is responsible for vitamin B12 absorption.

Step 3:
Digestion reaches its peak in the small intestine. The pancreas provides the small intestine with an abundance of multiple enzymes, which complete the digestive task.

Step 4:
Digestion ends in the large intestine, which serves as a reservoir for feces before they are eliminated. Because digestion and absorption are the only natural ways to get nutrients, we cannot thrive if the system isn’t healthy.

What’s the good news here?

I believe that digestive enzymes could be used not only to treat problems of the digestive system, but also diseases that are unrelated to the digestive system, like cancer.

How might enzymes fight cancer?

• They support our immune system, which already fights cancer.
• Enzymes break down the cancer cells’ protective coverage, which helps them escape our immune system’s recognition; enzymes make cancer cells vulnerable to an attack by our immune system.

And the bad news?

As we age, we lose the ability to produce enough enzymes to benefit us. But it isn’t just our bodies slowing down. One reason we don’t have enough enzymes is our western diet of processed and cooked foods.

Another cause of decreased enzymes is pharmaceuticals like Nexium, Prevacid, Omeprasol, Pepcid, and so on, which shut down the natural path of enzyme activation and production.

 
Can this vicious cycle be broken — at least partially? Sure.

First, you need to be sure you’re getting enough hydrochloric acid in your stomach. Hydrochloric acid starts the main digestive process; without it, there won’t be any enzyme activation. But some people already have high acid secretion. Acid production should be checked before considering supplementation.
The same can be applied to the production of digestive enzymes — it should be checked and replenished if necessary, with prescription medications.
Medication isn’t the only way out

People aren’t the only ones with enzymes; food has them too. But as I mentioned, the enzymes in food are very delicate, so the foods containing them should be consumed raw, provided it’s a food that’s safe to eat uncooked.

Foods rich in digestive enzymes:

Papaya contains the enzyme papain, is known as a fruit filled with digestive enzymes. In South America, it has been used for thousands of years for cooking.

Pineapple is rich in the natural digestive enzyme bromelain. It’s been used for many years as a meat tenderizer because of its digestive enzymatic properties.

Other foods believed to be rich in enzymes:

Cantaloupe

Mango

Avocado

Bananas

Dr. K’s tips on how to boost your digestion with enzymes, naturally
1. Stick to raw food if your digestive system is healthy.
2. Add enzyme-rich foods to your diet, such as papaya and pineapple.
3. Try to avoid drugs that reduce your stomach acids like Nexium, Prevacid, etc. (Of course, if you have to take them, do so. Do not stop taking these drugs unless approved by your doctor.)

4. Decrease your calorie intake to an optimal level, to minimize the amount of enzymes needed.

Teenagers getting liposuction or gastric bypass surgery? Do you think that is really necessary at such a young age, without truly knowing the results? Does it sound like a travesty to you?

As a holistic doctor, I am adamantly against unnecessary surgery for anyone, but for teenagers, whose bodies are still developing, who need nutrients in a different way for us, surgery for them can destroy their lives.

Sure, weight loss surgery leads to weight loss. But what will happen to these children 10 to 20 years from now? With weight loss surgery absorption of nutrients is significantly impaired, especially during the adolescent stage when our children need the nutrients the most!

Weight loss surgery often results in poor digestion and absorption of nutrients.  Unfortunately weight loss is not the only consequence of weight loss surgery.  Other side effects include fatigue which to a growing teen or to an adult can be exceedingly detrimental to success in life.  Imagine being constantly tired at school, at work and at play and no amount of proper sleep can help.  Another unpleasant side effect is poor digestion, frequent urination and exceedingly foul bowel movements.  Not exactly a pleasant circumstance to have to deal with at work or at school and not a comfortable way to live.

For the teenage paticipants of this study it is unclear about what kind of dieting they previously tried to control their weight.  Whether they worked with a nutritionist is unclear as well as most importantly what methods did they truly utilize before this study deemed that surgery would be a better alternative for them.

More often than not weight loss surgery deals with only the immediate physicals aspects of weight loss.  Often the emotional aspects of eating as well as the emotional impact of significant weight gain and loss are not taken under consideration.  While the immediate gratification of significant weight lost is great, the aforementioned consequences are often ignored because of trade off dropping weight drastically.  Once the surgery is complete and the weight is being lost, increase in trips to the bathroom, the indigestion and smelly bowel movements are the remnants.  What if they are suffering from neurotransmitter imbalance? This can cause emotional distress beyond compare. Who wants to date someone who has to always be in the bathroom. Who wants to marry a man or woman who can’t go on trips because he needs to always be close to a restroom?  The key to remember is to always consider the long term vs. the short term benefits.

Do you think it is acceptable that parents can sign consent forms for their children to endure what can possibly be an awful adulthood for their children.

Instead, there are other options. Below are the simple tricks to lose weight:

1. Avoid carbohydrates, soft drinks, cakes and artificial sweeteners.
2. Get enough sleep. Early to bed, early to rise…
3. Make sure that you are checked for hormonal imbalances: thyroid, adrenal and sex hormones can be a problem.
4. Detoxify yourself if necessary. Toxins are hormone disruptors.
5. Balance your neurotransmitters with the help of a health professional: some neurotransmitter deficiencies can make weight loss impossible.

So what about you?

• Are you overweight?
• Are you trying to lose weight but you can not?
• Do you have a teenager child who is overweight?

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Do you think that getting a few tiny wrinkles around your eyes is not a bid deal.  What you do not know is: a few wrinkles may portend a big disaster in your life — aging with hormonal imbalance.

You wake up one day and you really look at yourself in the mirror. It didn’t happen overnight, but it sure feels like it did. You got old! Your wrinkles are prominent, your skin in sagging, you have bags under your eyes from lack of sleep, and you look tired and haggard. What caused this, and how did it happen to you? You are not ready to think of yourself as old, yet.

“Every wrinkle has a reason,” says Sergey Kalitenko, MD, an Anti Aging Holistic Physician, practicing in Great Neck, Nassau county, Long Island, as well as Brooklyn and Manhattan. “There are several reasons why wrinkles happen, and it’s important to know that they cannot all be treated the same way.  You need to know the reason for wrinkles to treat them appropriately.”

At Dr. Kalitenko’s offices in Great Neck, they use biofeedback and other tests to look into the root cause of your aging problems, and find the right ways to identify, diagnose, and treat them.

Appropriate history taking, physical exam and tests will show that your wrinkles came from either:

1. Loss of skin thickness — your skin just isn’t as thick anymore, as you age.
2. Loss of volume — this has nothing to do with the skin actually, but rather with the fat underneath the skin and needs to be treated differently.
3. Excessive muscle pull — when the skin mimics the muscle pull and is working too hard.
4. Loss of normal skin texture — when the elastic fibers are gone and no longer in shape.

Each of these needs to be treated in the appropriate way. This is not a “one treatment fits all” plan.

“The first few wrinkles around your eyes are so small and can barely be noticed,” says Dr. Kalitenko.  “And you do not usually pay too much attention to them. So what? A little bit of makeup and you are ok.  But soon your problems start to pile up and soon disaster starts.”

Treatments are becoming too expensive. Visits to the makeup counter at department stores are costing hundreds of dollars but the results are almost a joke. You could be missing one approach that could prevent disaster.

Functional medicine can save you from that disaster, because it looks for the root cause of your problem and treats it. At our offices we look into the reason for your problem. We examine why your skin is wrinkled, we look into your diet, into vitamins, and we look to treat you to make the whole you feel younger and better.

Dr. Kalitenko has also teamed up with the healing services offered at Margaret’s Paradise, to offer a full, natural beauty experience. The office makes sure that you are taken care of inside and out.

Committing to look and feel younger is not an easy process. We encourage you to learn more by signing up for one of Dr. Kalitenko’s many free e-seminars. We feature in-depth articles about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, neurotransmitters, beauty, detoxification, and living longer.

“Most importantly, I ask that you come and see me personally for a consultation,” says Doctor Kalitenko. “There is no better way for me to tell you what I think would be the best for you, other than to meet you. I work with each patient, not their numbers, and every patient is different.”

Do you want to look and feel 10 years younger? Make an appointment for a consultation with Doctor Kalitenko: 718-382-9200.

What you need to do to get better:

1. Listen what your body is telling you: wrinkles? tired? no sleep? no energy?
2. if yes, then does your problems make your life harder, even miserable? if yes, then call us at 516 467 0253 or 718 382 9200 and schedule an appointment online

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If you are interested in finding out more about looking and feeling younger, as well as available testing and treatments for Wrinkles or any other beauty issues, call Doctor Kalitenko at 516-467-0253 718-382-9200 to schedule an appointment.

Doctor Kalitenko is Board Certified in Anti-Aging and Regenerative, Holistic and Integrative Medicine. His Long Island practice is located at 17 Maple Drive at Middle Neck Road, 2nd floor, Great Neck, NY. He can be reached at 516-467-0253.  Ample parking is available, or the LIRR is a short walk away. He also serves the NYC area with offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Dr, Kalitenko works with women and men from all over the tri-state area. For more information about his services and to get free proven tips on how to lose weight, how to look and feel 10 years younger visit www.doctorkalitenko.com.  For medical news, read his anti-aging blog at http://www.doctorkalitenko.com/blog, or sign up for valuable e-seminars that can help you achieve your anti-aging and health goals in the most natural way.

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Everybody agrees that beauty is a big advantage in sexual relations. But what about money?

Most studies will show that a good-looking female has more of a chance to get hired, get a higher salary and be promoted.In my opinion, this isn’t surprising, as beauty is related to hormone levels and hence to functional status.

Apparently, we tend to link, maybe subconsciously, attractiveness with better performance. It may also be a conscious link, as we are more likely to notice and to talk to someone attractive. It’s an instinct to notice what someone is wearing, if they put some effort into their appearance, as we directly correlate that with putting in time and effort to impress.

Therefore beauty is not for fun, it is for survival!

When you want your skin to look younger, or you have skin trouble, the first thing that comes to your mind is to put some cream on it.  And sometimes it works, because a cream treats the symptom.  However, a cream almost never treats the cause.  Remember, that your skin is the reflection of what’s going on inside your body.

So to keep your skin healthy, keep your body healthy.  Use such simple and proven ways as stress reduction techniques, drinking plenty of water, implementing sllee hygiene principles.  But sometimes it is not easy, sometimes even impossible.  How can you get rid of stress altogether? Can you go to sleep with sundown and get up with sunrise?

But what you can do easily is to get enough supplements and nutrients your body needs because of soil fertilizing.  This sounds easy doesn’t it? So what supplements are vitally important for your skin?

1.  Vitamin A, which stimulates skin cells turnover.  Getting enough of vitamin A will help your skin to look like a baby’s.  The interesting fact is, that the vitamin A derivate drug Tazorac, which is really good for skin treatments, cost 150 — 250 dollars a piece, while natural vitamin A costs a few dollars only.  Isn’t it fascinating?

2. Fish oil, which brings your cholesterol down, resulting in more nutrients in the blood for your skin.  There’s a recent study from Italy, which shows, that fish oil is more effective than the statin Crestor.  It took researchers more then 30 years to figure out, that cheap and safe natural fish oil is more effective than expensive and dangerous drugs.

3.  Zinc, which is responsible for healing.  Every day you damage your skin more or less. And this microtrama needs to heal.  Without zinc healing is no good.

4.  Vitamin B5.  Lack of it can cause dermatitis.

5.  Vitamin C: important because of its antioxidant properties and ability to maintain blood vessel structure.  A lack of vitamin C is well known as scurvy.

6.  Vitamin E scavendrs (Len-what is this word?) free radicals, minimizing skin damage.

7.  Water, which is sometimes called the “forgotten nutrient”.  Giving your skin enough water makes you look and feel better immediately.

All of the supplements above are cheap.  Much cheaper than laser treatment or Botox or fillers. Not only this, but they are natural, easy to use and very effective for skin care.  They will make you look and feel younger at almost no cost to you. Don’t you think, that they are worth trying?

This is a new indication for Allergan’s glaucoma medication Lumigan. While using it for glaucoma patients and doctors noticed that it promoted eyelashes growth.

Allergan did not loose its chance — and we now have a new drug. No doubt that it is effective, but how safe it is needs to be determined.

As per a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, lawmakers are concerned with the safety of plastic surgery patients. The cause of the recent concerns is the death of Donda West, the mother of rapper Kanye West.

She underwent breast reduction and a tummy tuck and died allegedly because of surgery complications.

So many of us want to enhance our beauty, but safely. So what can be done instead of plastic surgery? Now, there are several alternatives to traditional surgical ways to enhance our beauty.

A thread lift can be a substitute for the traditional surgical facelift. It works well and can be done in a short period of time. Sometimes, it is even known as the “lunchtime left,” because it takes less than an hour.

Hormone replacement therapy can help with skin tone and texture, as well as droopy breasts and weight management issues.

Both solutions are not surgical and much safer then plastic surgery. Of course there are no perfect solutions, but before going under the knife be aware of other safe solutions. Good luck!

Some of them are very well known, some of them are either forgotten or underused

Here are the list:

1. Retinoids — old and proven method to improve skin texture and get rid of tiny wrinkles.

2. Botox — amazing drug. Safe, effective and well tolerated.

3. Fillers — effective, safe and pretty long lasting. Restylane is very good.

4. Thread lift — fast, safe, looks natural.

5. Hormone replacement therapy if needed — used for years. Improves not only skin tone, but also general health condition.

6. Stress reduction! Relax!

7. Sleeping enough!

8. Liberal water intake! Remember: water is a forgotten nutrient!

Isn’t it simple and easy?

A thread lift may be one of the best ways to attract a person of the opposite sex.Let’s look at Thread Lift from survival stand point. We are programmed to produce babies. Therefore when we pick up a mate, we tend to pay primary attention on the ability to reproduce, which depends mostly on their sex hormone levels. The most easily noted sign of hormone deficiency including sex hormones is sagging skin. This applies to growth hormone deficiency also.

A Thread Lift pulls up the skin, creating an impression of hormonally-sound person. This results in gaining much more attractiveness than just makeup, Botox or Fillers.

Acne resistant to treatment can be the consequence of elevated testosterone levels. Oily skin predisposes us to acne formation.

We usually treat oily skin with exfoliation agents to open clogged pores or/and antibiotics to fight infection.

But did you know that excess testosterone could be one of the reasons for your oily skin? Even in women?

Therefore it may be appropriate to test patients with acne resistant to treatment for testosterone level. If it is high – doctors can bring it down.

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Acne is the result of skin pores being clogged because of excessive dead cell formation.

To treat acne, have a doctor use exfoliation agents to remove dead cells. Microdermabrasion is sometimes the best way to clean skin pores because it is virtually free of complications, fast and easy to administer.

Besides removing dead skin cells, the process also helps to make scars less visible, and remove sun damaged and darkened skin.

There are several different types available, including diamond, crystal and home dermabrasion. It is a very common procedure in spas and salons.

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In order to lose weight you have to be hungry all the time, right? Actually, not at all. Though portion control can often cause bouts of hunger at certain times of the day, a steady, healthy diet will result in feeling full and losing weight. The key isn’t just counting calories and fat, it about choosing foods that will fill you up and fuel you longer. One reason for feeling too hungry when you’re watching your calorie intake is eating too much food with a high glycemic index. If a dieter eats simple sugars like cookies or starchy food like mashed potatoes, their sugar goes up too fast resulting in high insulin levels. The result of high insulin level is a subsequent low blood sugar level, which results in hunger.

The solution is to eat foods with a low glycemic index like meat, beans, vegetables, eggs, cottage cheese etc. You can learn to eat right again and choose foods that will keep you on track.

Stimulators designed for wound treatment are now used to improve skin color and elasticity!

Rejuvenate yourself! Only human body can produce the best simulators to heal itself. Bioidentical stimulators are such substances.

Using a special technique to extract bioidentical stimulators we apply this substances to your skin to stimulate rejuvenation processes and as a result make your skin look younger.

Created by your own body for wound healing they are now used for skin color and elasticity improvement as well as tightening. No allergy — they are identical to your own.

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The best solution in this case is to release tention by special procedure called “wrinkle release”. Frequently used for nasolabial folds release where Botox does not work

Wrinkle release – procedure that breaks apart wrinkles and scars with a wired scalpel. This releases the tension between muscle and skin or scar and skin. Done under local anesthesia.

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