Thursday, December 27, 2018

Age Management - A Hormone-Based Approach to Wellness


Robert Windsor, MD, is an age management physician who has obtained diplomate status from the American Board of Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine. Age management professionals like Robert Windsor, MD, use information gleaned from a wide range of health and medical fields to help people maintain and improve their health as they age.

Age management deals with more than simple anti-aging efforts. Nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle recommendations all enter into age management practice, helping people to feel healthy for as long as possible by optimizing hormone production.

Nutrition work in age management encourages a balanced diet as well as specific food intake. Some foods and eating patterns optimize the production and use of good hormones and encourage overall health.

Age management takes a hormone-based approach to common exercise goals. Prevention of muscle degeneration, building of lean muscle, and burning of fat can all be improved hormonally with specific exercise plans.

Lifestyle changes in age management medicine focus on the encouragement of healthy hormone levels. Frequent stress and low-quality sleep can change the way the body uses hormones, or encourage the production of hormones that cause systemic illnesses to progress.

Thursday, December 6, 2018

STRAW Defines the Reproductive Aging Process in Women


Georgia-based medical practitioner Robert Windsor, MD, has performed outpatient pain management procedures for more than three decades. The recipient of a number of accolades, including the PASSOR Clinician Award, Robert Windsor, MD, also focuses on age management and has written extensively on the impact of age-related hormone modulation on women’s health.

Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop (STRAW) is a diagram of hormone modulations associated with menopause. Divided into seven stages, STRAW delineates the conditions that appear throughout a woman’s cycle from menstruation to post-menopause. 

The reproductive stage is divided into early, peak and late periods. During the late period, menstrual cycles become more irregular and levels of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) increase, which correlates with a lower egg supply. During the menopausal stage, a woman may regularly skip several period cycles.

Common symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats will appear during this stage. The last period marks the beginning menopause. The early postmenopausal stage encompasses the first five years following the final menses.

Friday, November 23, 2018

Obtaining the ABAARM Certification


Robert Windsor, MD, has led an accomplished career in clinical practice and academics. Over the course of more than 25 years, he taught dozens of medical courses, practiced as a physician at a wide range of hospitals, and served as the medical director of several facilities. In 2000, Robert Windsor, MD, became a diplomate in integrative/functional medicine as certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine (ABAARM).

Developed by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), the ABAARM provides professionals in a variety of medical specialties with certification of their solid understanding of anti-aging medical care. To obtain board certification, professionals must pass a written and oral examination. They must also commit to continuing their education on an ongoing basis.

To be eligible for the ABAARM certification, doctors must hold an active medical license and have at least five years of experience practicing in a clinical setting. In an effort to demonstrate their commitment to learning, applicants need to prove that they have completed 200 hours of continuing medical education in the past eight years and be a member of the A4M.

Once the basic requirements are met, doctors must complete a course consisting of case studies, article reviews, treatment programs, and diagnoses. The written and oral certification exams are based on the information taught in this course.

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Study Confirms Links between Exercise and Heart Health


A respected presence in the Marietta, Georgia, community, Robert Windsor, MD, expanded National Pain Care, Inc., to include numerous health care centers with a similar quality focus. Respected in areas such as exercise and fitness, Robert Windsor, MD, is the author of the article “The Evidence-Based Exercise Prescription.”

One area of long-term research activity to which Dr. Windsor draws attention is the U.S. Nurses’ Health Study, which began in 1976 and involved the participation of more than 120,000 female nurses within the 30 to 55 age group. Lasting decades, this longitudinal study revealed an inverse correlation between increased incidences of colon cancer and multivitamin and folate use.

Another area of analysis within the study centered on the relationship between exercise and heart disease, with physical activity information collected and compared with clinical examinations for nearly a decade. Among the areas tested each year were mass index, fasting plasma glucose levels, and blood pressure, as well as hypertension.

With proper adjustments in place, elevated total physical activity was found to correlate with reduced coronary event risks. Women who walked briskly at least one to three hours weekly had their coronary event risk reduced by 30 percent, as compared with sedentary women. A key finding of this and other studies has been that vigorous exercise boosts quality of life and fitness and does not cause harm.

Friday, October 19, 2018

The Importance of Exercise For Those in the Least Fit Category



Based in Marietta, Georgia, Robert Windsor, MD, most recently guided National Pain Care, Inc., as chief medical officer and oversaw the expansion of a leading company in its field. In his paper “The Evidence-Based Exercise Prescription,” Robert Windsor, MD, brings focus to the importance of fitness in decreasing incidence of injuries and chronic disease as adults age. 

University of Toronto physicians have found that both muscle strength and aerobic power decline by approximately 10 percent each decade during adult life. At the same time, a “progressive exercise prescription” is effective in boosting function by between 10 and 20 percent. This means that proper conditioning can elevate functional capacities in ways that decrease biological age by as much as two decades. 

The most significant health results from a consistent fitness routine are experienced among those who started out in the “least fit” category. A major difference in mortality rates is recorded among those in that range and those in the next category upward. By contrast, an Institute for Aerobic Fitness study found only a small difference in likelihood of dying from chronic disease among those in the high fitness category and those in the medium-fitness category.