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Thursday, September 26, 2013
IV Vitamin Therapy in Orlando
Starting next month, IV vitamin therapy will begin at Park Avenue Plastic Surgery and Spa. It will be physician and nurse monitored for each patients safety and health.
This article below is from a professional football player describing how it has helped him in his professional career. Follow the link to the original article at the end.
The evolution of the athlete is in many ways directly related to the evolution of medicine.
Starting around 2009, once-devastating injuries that typically took 12-18 months to heal saw recovery time cut in half to around 6-12 months for some.
In the years since, we have marveled at the super-human recoveries of many athletes who had sustained serious injuries. Even on a week-to-week basis, the ability to bounce back and be ready to play has improved directly with advancements in medicine.
Follow along as I give you an inside look at what many professional athletes do in order to extend their careers, increase recovery plus healing time, and make them feel extraordinarily super-human. Legally.
I am by no means a doctor, and you should always consult one before starting any type of treatment. I am simply recalling my personal protocol to the best of my memory. Many athletes believe these methods help their recovery, though their effectiveness is not universally acknowledged in the medical community.
The key in the particular treatment demonstrated in the video above is phlebotomy, the process of inserting a needle into a vein. Sports performance doctors will write a prescription and request a blood sample.
In its simplest form, the blood panel gives you a view of all of your deficiencies and food allergies. Along with those key components, a full hormone panel is requested as well as testing the blocker in the human body that allows or doesn’t allow you to absorb supplements.
Every six months for the last few years, I would have a blood panel pulled for analysis. A supplement strategy would be developed based on the blood panel results. The goal is to eliminate all deficiencies and crank up positive hormonal output and counteract any negative hormonal output, such as estrogen. Keep in mind this is all done naturally and treated homeopathically.
If one just tore a ligament or even played in a football game, or had something as simple as a hangover, a supplement strategy is designed for healing and recovery. Of course, this is all done proactively.
This isn’t anything new, but phlebotomy comes back into play, which is a new spin on administering supplements. This particular supplement strategy isn’t merely taken orally, this strategy consists of daily injectable BCAA's (branched-chain amino acids, important for muscle proteins) and 2-3 intravenous bags per week designed specifically for your own body’s needs.
I remember the first time I took a recovery IV. I felt like I could run through a brick wall.
Prior to games, I started taking intravenous energy cocktails tailored specifically for my body. As soon as the IV hit my blood stream, I could taste the vitamins instantly.
Your blood circulates through your entire body in about one minute while you are at rest. In a matter of minutes, you can go from feeling OK to amazing.
Nothing has to pass through the gut, which dilutes potency. The supplements are instantly absorbed through the blood and go right into the body.
A typical IV used for hydration merely consists of a hydrating saline solution. These super IVs — known as enhanced IVs, or cocktails — are so much more. Due to proprietary information from MVP Medical Group in Delray Beach, Fl., I can’t give away everything that is in the drip in the video above, but I will divulge some of the basics:
NEED SOME? GET SOME
Three basic cocktails (Myers', recovery, energy) are enhanced with BCAA's, the B complex vitamins, high amounts of zinc, magnesium, and glutathione. The ingredients are all permitted under the NFL's banned substance list.
IV therapy is one of many treatments believed to have an incremental affect that ultimately synergizes to make a big difference in healing, recovery, strength and overall performance.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/former-nfl-player-brendon-ayanbadejo-exclusive-IV-supplements-demonstration-explanation-personal-use-092413
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
New FDA-approved teardrop-shaped silicone-gel filled breast implant
Mentor got approval for MemoryShape after collecting six years of data from 955 women that demonstrated "a reasonable assurance" of safety and effectiveness, FDA officials reported to NBC News Health. Mentor's MemoryShape breast implants are shaped like a teardrop with greater fullness in the lower half, mimicking the silhouette of a natural breast. They are filled with a silicone cohesive gel that Mentor claims enables shape retention.
The MemoryShape implants showed similar complication rates as those in other approved implants, including tightening of the area around the breast, need for reoperation or implant removal, uneven appearance and wrinkling. Cracks were seen in the gel of some MemoryShape implants, according to the FDA.
With the recent approval of Mentor's MemoryShape, there are now five FDA-approved silicone-gel filled breast implants available. This is big news because the reappearance of silicone-gel filled breast implants in 2006 may arguably be a cause of the general breast implant boom.
Before breast implants came back on the market only 19 percent of breast augmentation procedures used silicone. In 2012, according to statistics released by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), 72 percent of the 330,631 breast augmentation procedures in the U.S. used silicone implants, while only 28 percent used saline. Further, according to ASAPS… "one can speculate that the total increase in breast augmentation procedures in 2012 (330,631 compared with 316,848 in 2011), and the comeback of breast augmentation as the number one plastic surgery procedure in the U.S., is because women can choose silicone, which, according to patients and surgeons, feels and looks more natural."
MemoryShape breast implants have been approved to boost breast size in women over 22 and to rebuild breast tissue in women of any age. However, like the other companies offering these breast implants (Allergan and Sientra) Mentor is required to monitor the women who use them and research long-term effects. Here is a sampling of the FDA monitoring requirements that Mentor is required to fulfill:
• They must follow the 955 women in the core study for 10 years and follow 350 additional women implanted with a certain kind of MemoryShape device for five years.
• They must conduct a study of 2,500 women who get MemoryShape devices to track risks of long-term local complications for 10 years.
• They must conduct five case control studies of some 10,750 women to evaluate the potential association of any silicone breast implants and five rare diseases: rare connective tissue disease, neurological disease, brain cancer, cervical/vulvar cancer and lymphoma.
• Finally, Mentor must also evaluate the women's perceptions of package labeling and analyze returned MemoryShape products.
These stringent study requirements place an onus on breast implant manufacturers but are a blessing in that they safeguard American women. If you're thinking about breast augmentation, Dr. Brian Joseph is a board-certified plastic surgeon who can discuss these implants in detail.
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