Hormone Balance

Posted on April 7, 2011 by agingbabyboomerguide

Hormone Balance is a hot subject when it comes to desire for quality of life.  Whether they be pro-hormones or sex hormones, we need balance.  I watched the Dr. Oz  show this morning and caught  the segment with Dr. John Gray.  He has written many books on relationships and how different the" Men from Mars are compared to the Women from Venus".  His new book goes into how the balance of our hormones play a role.  If everyone is writing about it, why when you mention to your doctor about balancing hormones do you receive a negative response?

Most Medical Doctors look at hormone balance as an off the wall subject. Why do you want to mess with your hormones? They discourage any work in the hormone balance area. The only reason they do that is they are not educated in the field of hormones and insurance makes them stick to traditional tests andmedications.

Bio identical hormone replacement is viable. When you find out what your blood levels reveal, it can be unnerving. When you realize how deficient you are and your doctor has never looked at those blood markers before, you wonder why? Ask to check things such as; fibrinigin, crp, dhea-s, 1.25 D3 in your blood tests. It may mean that you could have less physical issues if and you could help yourself naturally if you do? Wow! What a concept. Don’t wait until it gets bad and you are forced to use medications.

If you are having any immune deficiency problems, memory, weight gain, cholesterol or loss of energy and lean muscle mass…..you could improve with bio-identical hormone replacement therapies. Check out this article on Bio Identical Hormone Balance written by the Doctor who helps me and now works with me at The Centre for Optimum Health.

Personally, I’ve been using Bio-Identical Hormones for several years and would not want to be an Aging Baby

Marge Pickering Picone

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Boomer without them. With Hormone Balancing, I enjoy being able to sleep through the night, pretty good memory (once I got on certain supplements and hormones), less aches and age stiffness and putting 7Keto Dhea and HCG into my life…no weight problems.(check out HCG on the website too) Start researching as I did. Actually, I created a career out of wanting to feel good and not have the chronic ailments my family suffered from. More on that in the future!
Enjoy getting healthy…..turn it into your hobby and be the vibrant, healthy Boomer you could and should be!
Marge

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Elder Parents and Communication

Posted on March 30, 2011 by agingbabyboomerguide

Learning to communicate with our elder parents as adults is a real chore for most baby boomers. We struck an attitude of independence when we were teenagers and it blossomed from there. We are the generation of independence and now we have to back track. The choices we make concerning our future health may need the information about the generations before us. When we look in the mirror now or visit our doctors, we are becoming them and we need to extract information while we still can.

One of the main things that I have learned from communication with elder parents is that they want to be treated and talked to just like anyone else. If you talk to your friends, you don’t sugar coat anything you want to know. You just spit it out and accept what they say. Start asking general questions of your parents. Be open about the things you want to know. Someday they won’t be here to ask. Just keep the judgments towards what they have to share to a minimum. Your defenses may want to go up but the truth is not always about you or protecting your feelings. Their truths may help you tremendously in the future of your health and that of your children and grandchildren.

Jog their memories by asking what they did when they were a certain age. Who they hung around with and what types of things they used to do. When they start talking, it usually triggers more. That is an opportunity to get descriptions of former family members in regards to their personalities, health issues, family lifestyle and antidotes of past generations. How they spent their summers, holidays and what was their favorite pet. It just keeps growing from there and you will need to keep a journal to remember it all yourself because your children will eventually start asking you.

If there is terminal illness, ask them what it feels like to have the problem. Let them know that you don’t want them to be uncomfortable and that you are not always sure how to respond but that you are willing to listen. Understanding how an illness runs its course is not always necessary. The common ground is usually the acceptance of fear and loss. Most fear the unknown and having support, love and someone to share their feelings is a great contribution. Ask if anyone in the family of prior generations has experienced this illness or another chronic problem.

If they are over 75, talk about how they feel about their age. You can bet that when they look in the mirror, the reflection is not how they see themselves. If you’re middle age, you definitely can relate to the same thing. They remember how flexible and mobile they always were. That climbing a ladder or dancing for hours were simple. Now, they can barely bend to tie their shoes.

If they need care, get the outside help (home health aides) if possible and keep the time you have to spend as open time. You were not born to take over their lives when they got old. Taking over causes way too much stress and can ultimately destroy the family connection that is critical for elders. The visiting will be therapeutic for all concerned. When you try to do everything for them, your family and yourself, you begin to resent all of it. Your last memories if something should happen will be full of regret. Keep talking and asking questions. If stuck, resort to the “who, what, when, where, why and how of their lives, their parents, extended families and you. They all want to know that they matter in your lives and they don’t want to be a burden.
Take the time to become friends with your elder parents as you age. They are just other adults that have probably experienced a lot of the same things as you. Stop looking through your child eyes and see them as peers. Everyone wishes they could slow down the aging in life. Eventually, you will experience the same feelings too! Open up and you may find it easier to talk to your adult children as well. Enjoy!

Marge Pickering Picone

Value Yourself Before Retirement

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Value Your Retirement

Posted on March 17, 2011 by agingbabyboomerguide

Marge Pickering Picone

Value Yourself Before Retirement

Everyone speaks about the necessity of their retirement assets and the quality of life they want to live when retirement day finally arrives. Financial matters are carefully scrutinized and divided over the best anticipated funds or stocks to get the highest return to enhance and provide for that retirement. Homes are updated and upgraded and sometimes downsized to meet the lifestyle of the current atmosphere. The concern I feel is how healthy will your body, mind and soul be when retirement day arrives?

If you spent as much time paying attention to the signs and signals your body gives you, would you require all those medications that you are counting out everyday? If you would take the time to stop and evaluate your eating habits and your lack of exercise as seriously as you do your finances, I think you would be very surprised. Some people spend so much time reviewing the outside parameters of their lives that they don’t realize that they are getting older, slower and are visiting the MD a lot more often.

Retirement age is approaching. Acknowledge that you are not as young as you used to be and take steps to improve the quality of your current health life. Some people seriously think medical conditions only afflict the what they perceive to be the elderly. How wrong can you be! Obesity, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s is striking younger and younger. It is scary to think that all the effort you put into having a great retirement ends up being utilized to pay doctor bills or high medicine prices. Those vacations you planned on waiting until retirement to take will never materialize. All that time you spent preparing when you could have been enjoying.

Become important to yourself. If you didn’t hear me the first time, I said, “Become important to yourself.” Begin today by making a list of all the areas of your life that need updating or upgrading. How long has it been since you had a complete physical? Include all blood work and x-rays to check yourself out from head to toe. If there are any discrepancies, find out what you need to do to tweak your dietary intake or current exercise program to minimize any foreseeable problems. Improve your daily life. Go ahead and evaluate your finances but also look at how healthy your relationships, personal awareness, career and community life are. Make life enjoyable again. Get some passion for living back to the surface of your life.

What do you expect from yourself at this point in your life? How much joy are you experiencing right now? Do you even remember what joy is? When is the last time you did something just for fun? Did you choose it or were you sharing someone else’s good time? Do you just visit or babysit your grandchildren or do you play games with them? Can you resurrect any old hobbies? When was the last time you read a great book or went to the movies? Start now, do not wait for retirement.

Start to realize that when you make everything and everybody else more important than yourself, you create a grumpy, miserable, self lacking person that complains about stress and usually has high blood pressure. Do something today to make yourself smile and begin to get healthy from head to toe. Don’t wait until death of someone close or divorce forces you to face your future. Start with simple steps and have some Joy and Enjoy!

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Travel

Posted on March 11, 2011 by agingbabyboomerguide

Marge Pickering PiconeI couldn’t wait to get to a point in my life where I no longer needed permission to take a trip and could afford to go anywhere I wanted. Well, mid life is here, I can and now I really find traveling a chore. I really do try to find all the ways of convenience. I really like to be pampered.

I try to utilize frequent flier miles (ha ha) when I can match schedules. Travel off season or opposite school scheduled vacations and choose the shortest lay over times as well as the lowest number of stops. Lightweight bags that have wheels that turn in every direction have been a shoulder and back saving invention. (It is much easier to push your bag from terminal to terminal than pulling it.)

Learning to purchase dark base travel material clothing lets me wear something more than once and allows more lightweight accessories to accompany me. Lightweight tee shirts in different colors are easy to pack and carry to allow fresh looks every day. I can even wear tee shirts for bed. Jewelry fits in a bag in my purse leaving room for base essentials in the carry on. I shoot for comfortable flats, sandals and my bulkiest shoes I where on the plane. Heels are a memory as they may only get worn once and that does not fit my packing criteria. I can now pack for a week in one carry on bag.

If I need more than a week, I look for a laundromat or utilize the machines at where ever I stay. Throwing in a bag of Laundry soap and a couple of dryer sheets is simple. I don’t know many of the people that see me and how would they know if I had just worn that same outfit the day before unless it had food stains or something on it!

I usually check the weather website to see the 10 day forecast to know what type of outerwear I need. A lightweight leather jacket and a black or beige sweater as well as a decorative scarf is worn on the plane. I’ll carry a handbag that is larger than I normally carry to accommodate all important extras (even lunch) that I deem necessary to have with me. Camera, phone and cord, jewelry, Kindle, wallet and anything I would not want in a bag out of my sight.

I used to carry books to read everywhere I went. The library supplied lots of great choices that I could take and return consistently changing subjects. I then changed to buying paperbacks from library sales and when I read the book, I would leave it behind for the next vacationer. That worked well for a while but now that we use the carry on bag method….I have a new love. It is the Kindle. Great entertainment, you can download many books and games etc and stay entertained for hours. It stores well and fits in my purse. Didn’t think I would go for it but, received it as a gift and haven’t looked back.

I also learned to swallow my pride as after a few surgeries I couldn’t walk as far or as easily as I did when I was younger. I shove my ego back and utilize the airline help service. A wheelchair to the gate is so much easier then trying to agonize walking sometimes a mile or more between terminals in some of these large airports. When I see people in agony walking so slow carrying “stuff” I want to reach out and tell them to “wake up and smell the coffee”. Get your butts in a chair or electric cart so that you are not huffing and puffing and sweating through the airport to only miss your next flight. It’s a FREE Service. Just call the airline a head of time and order it or even ask upon check-in and they will have service available at all your flights. It definitely beats being exhausted just trying to get to your destination for such a hard earned vacation.

Start finding ways to completely enjoy Travel as the flight should be part of the trip and not the punishment for taking time off to visit and have fun.
Marge

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Melt Away the Belly Fat

Posted on March 8, 2011 by agingbabyboomerguide

I’ve just finished my 3rd round of Doctor supervised Hcg. What a fantastic way to achieve the desired result of Fat Loss. You don’t exercise during the 3 week sessions of being on the Hcg and you can actually get rid of the fat you don’t want.

Personally, I have lost 40 pounds of unwanted Belly Fat amongst other areas but really thrilled to have decreased 6 inches off my waistline. I was beginning to look like the rest of my family. I am a nutritionist and I could not get the fat off the middle. I knew I was genetically prone to being heavier but once reaching the over 50 mark…it got harder and harder.

I tried everything that I would have had my clients do and exercise regularly. It did not do enough to get rid of the bad fat. My results were to have decreased muscle strength and loss in areas I didn’t care to pursue. With the Hcg Live Leaner Program, I have the results where I want them. My blood work has improved dramatically. My glucose numbers and cholesterol is sooooooo much more healthy.

It is very rewarding and exciting to look like myself again and to have my blood levels be in the healthy zone.
Dr. Oz is always putting people on the “Truth Tube” to check those numbers. I found that I have been trying to keep those numbers in the right areas for years before he came along.

I urge you to not give up. We are in NY State and have many people fly in from all over to get help in a more natural approach to life. Check out our website and stay tuned for more info on aging.

It took me a while to be able to get back into my site….I had touched something I should not have and lost my template and connection ability for a while. Hopefully, I will not do that again.
Soon,
Marge

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Boomers and Health Issues like Belly Fat

Posted on February 18, 2011 by agingbabyboomerguide

Baby Boomers have many health issues but I believe the worst of them all is denial. Boomers tend to think if they ignore or stay in denial the problem like Belly Fat will go away. Symptoms creep up to tell us to pay attention. When we keep ignoring the situation, it amplifies. We run to the doctor and still don’t want to hear what they have to say. Some would rather take a pill then give up what causes their issues like that Belly Fat that is around your middle.

Hey fellow boomers, wake up an smell the coffee! It’s time to take control of your daily health life. If your glucose level is high…..cut down the starches and sugars. (read my posted article on Glucose and Insulin) If your cholesterol level is high….cut down the starches and sugars. If you have belly fat…cut down the starches and sugars.
Can you see the repetitive answer to these ailments that require horrible medications and side effects to improve a blood number?

A self examination of what you are doing to your bodies everyday may start you in the right direction.
We are not 25 anymore nor would most of us want to be. So, stop treating your body and digestive track as though you are. We require less intake and more quality choices as we age. Keep the protein levels up and the carbohydrates down so you can start on a more healthy future to be able to be active with your grandchildren.

When I get my story written on how I got healthy….I’ll share it with you.
Have a great day and try eating better today!
Marge

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Life Changes When We’re Not Looking

Posted on January 24, 2011 by agingbabyboomerguide

Being a Baby Boomer of the gentle age of 55, I thought life was suppose to slow down and become easier.
Ha! Ha! Every time I seem to have an idea the Universe seems to supply awesome choices to put them into motion.
I thought I would consider retiring by 55. That was a thought alright! I’ve enlarged my practice with 5 employees, moved business to another location and have added multiple modalities to enhance the world of Aging.
I’ve spent much of my time putting people and services into fruition to help all my fellow Boomer’s to age gracefully and in control of their health. If you would like to see where I have spent all my time over the last 3 years…check out my business website.

I am again making changes to work On my business instead of In it so, I will have more to say on this Blog from now on. I’ll help you walk through steps to improve your quality of life. I will introduce you to things and ideas to improve your aging process as well as self confidence, relationships with elder as well as adult
children.

My goal is to make life count and getting priorities straight.
I hope you will join me on this venture.
Marge

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