Dr. Massimo Spattini is the 1st Italian to participate as Speaker at the World Congress of A4M (American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine) to be held in Las Vegas December 10 to 13 year 2015. Saturday, December 12 – 3:30 pm Hours Session 3: Nutrition Causes and Effects Dr. Massimo Spattini present the topic “CHRONOMORPHOLOGIC ANTI-AGING
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THE GROWTH HORMONE
Let’s now talk about a hormone which is more and more used, especially in the USA, in anti-aging therapy. It is the human growth hormone (hGH, or simply GH). As for its chemical structure, basically it is a protein (that is, a chain of amino acids). Therefore, it has nothing to do with steroids. GH
ELIMINATION DIET
The existence of food intolerance, which we should actually call “retarded allergy”, has no doubt by now been recognized also by allergologists. However, the problem is still the possibility of using scientifically confirmed diagnostic tests. Among the many available tests we can include the vegatest, kinesiology and palpation tests, the DRIA test, cytotoxic tests and
FUNCTIONAL METABOLIC MEDICINE: Tomorrow’s Medicine
A 2003 editorial published in the “British Medical Journal” contained the following comment: “It is by now common for a general practitioner to deal with patients whose symptoms are not related to a specific organic cause or to a well-defined disease, but they seem rather to depend on chronic inflammation of unknown origin”. One of
ELIMINATING REFINED WHEAT
L’Accademia del Fitness-Wellness-Antiaging / october 2014 Everyone has heard of celiac disease, an intolerance of gliadin, a gluten protein which is contained in most grain-based products. Yet not everyone knows that there is also “gluten sensitivity”, a syndrome in which there are no anatomical lesions affecting the intestinal mucous membranes, or the relevant absorption problems
ANTIAGING ESTROGEN MODULATION
Estrogens are steroid hormones which derive from cholesterol. Together with progesterone, they are the main female hormones. They promote women’s secondary sex characteristics. Actually, they are also present in man, even if in a much reduced amount, since the biochemical process leading to the synthesis of estrogens goes through transitional stages represented by masculine hormones