Eric R. Braverman, M.D. was recently appointed the Clark Randt Memorial lecture and has accepted an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital/ Weill Cornell Medical Center in the Department of Neurosurgery.

He is the author or more than 120 papers and has been practicing medicine for more than 22 years. He started in medicine at the Princeton Brain Bio Center in 1976. He performed post-graduate work in Internal Medicine at a Yale Medical School affiliate and conducted research as a member of a team at Harvard Medical School in 1979. He graduated from NYU Medical School with Honors in 1983, and graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University in 1975.

My medical practice focuses on the brain because it is the primary organ in the body that controls health and aging. The brain regulates, translates, and interprets hormonal output from the various other organs of the body. But once you turn 30, the brain becomes less effective in sending messages to the other organs to produce their hormones. This forces the other organs to age, and we start to lose our health in small steps. For example, g rowth hormone production diminishes at age 30; by 40 women begin to lose estrogen and men testosterone; then we lose DHEA, progesterone, parathyroid hormone, and calcitonin. The more we age the more hormones we lose. Our organs get to a point where they can no longer produce a particular hormone on their own. Eventually, that organ will die and drag the others down with it, leading to a cascade of poor health and unnecessary aging.

The only thing that will stop this cascade is by supplementing your hormone loss with bioidentical hormones. I feel really strongly about this, because it has been proven in various studies that synthetic estrogen has been linked to cancer, as do other pharmaceutical hormones such as methyltestosterone, diethylstilbestrol (DES), conjugated estrogens, medroxyprogesterones, cadaver growth hormones, and birth control pills. Natural, bioidentical hormones, on the other hand, are much safer and generally not linked to cancer at all. These are often plant-based hormone supplements with the exact same molecular structure as those that come from the human body, and have the same effect on our body as the ones we naturally produce. Most of these hormones are not new on the market: they have been available for over 20 years, and are so lacking in side effects that they are frequently sold over the counter as supplements, including Vitamin D2, 3, pregnenolone, progesterone, DHEA, and melatonin.

I believe that bioidentical hormone therapies are probably the most integral anti-aging tool necessary to combat aging. Just take a good look at my friend, Suzanne Somers. This amazing lady doesn’t look as remarkable as she does because she uses expensive face creams and thinks positive thoughts. She makes her health a priority, and takes a regimen of bioidentical hormones every day. She tells me that she’s never felt better in her life: she has great sleep (thanks to melatonin), lots of energy (thanks to HGH), and overall good health. At 62, she’s living like she’s 30 again. That’s how we reverse aging.

• methyl testosterone (such as Android, Testred, Virilon)
• conjugated estrogens (Prempro, Premarin)
• medroxyprogesterone (Provera)
• cadaver growth hormones (cadaver-GH)
• birth control pills

• androstenedione
• calcitonin
• DHEA
• erythropoietin
• estradiol
• estrone
• HGH: human growth hormone
• hydroxycortisol/aldosterone
• IGF: Insulin Growth Factor
• Incretin ( at least 50% bioidentical )
• insulin
• melatonin
• pregnenolone
• progesterone
• testosterone
• thyroid: T3, T4
• vitamin D2, D3

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