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.

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.