America is going gray and this does not simply imply hair color. In fact in 2004, 36.3 million (one in every eight) Americans were aged 65 and older and this number is expected to double by year 2030. As the aging American population is growing, so are the detrimental effects associated with aging: depression, anxiety, weight gain, mood swings, loss of sexual desire, stokes, heart attacks, dementia, etc. Hence, the quality of life becomes a real issues among millions of the over 40 plus club. The medical and scientific world has started taking a deep look into different therapeutic modalities to extend one’s life and improve its quality; diet, nutritional supplementation, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, growth hormone therapy, bio-identical hormone replacement, and cellular therapy, among many others. Restoring brain function is one of the many important goals of anti-aging therapies.  Read More

Everywhere you look, you see establishments that are calling themselves a “Medical Spa”. The definition of a medical spa is a facility that operates under the full-time, on site supervision of a
licensed Physician. A Medical Spa operates within the scope of practice of its staff providing traditional, complementary and alternative health practices and treatments in a spa-like setting. Practitioners working within a medical spa are governed by their appropriate licensing boards to define and regulate the practitioner’s scope of practice. In addition to the practitioner’s regulating licensing board the medical spa itself is governed by the City and the State Department of Health.  Read More