B.Sc., M.D., M.C.F.P. (EM), D.A.B.EM., F.A.C.E.P.

In many of my previous submissions I have referred to the “Metabolic Syndrome.” I wasn’t going to write much about it because it is an extraordinarily complicated subject. It’s all about hormones and I don’t want to leave anyone with the impression that that is what we do. We use a hormone to accomplish our goals with our clients but we are not about Age Management.

We are all about weight loss and healing. But I have decided to revisit Metabolic Syndrome in a little more detail because it affects almost every baby boomer.

There are many stars in this constellation we call Metabolic Syndrome. Resistant obesity is but one of them but it is a critically important star.

As so often is the case in medical literature, there are numerous definitions for this malady using various different benchmarks regarding cardio-respiratory health, fluid and electrolyte management, hormonal axis balance and so on.

The one common feature to each and every list of diagnostic criteria is resistant central obesity. The beer belly, the gut, the love handles. The fat that just won’t go away any more.

It is my opinion that Metabolic Syndrome affects virtually every baby boomer to one extent or another. We’re the ones who have spent years doing shift-work, working in stressful occupations, working many more hours than we should have, dealing with prolonged crises and economic stresses in our lives, and raising children in challenging times. In a shockingly simplified nutshell, Metabolic Syndrome boils down to the fact that we have burned out our Adrenal glands.

Our ‘coping’ hormones aren’t there any more and may not have been for a very long time because the glands never got a chance to rest and recharge.

The absence of these important hormones causes our bodies to go into ‘survival by whatever means’ mode. Alternative channels are found to produce for us the energy we need to get through the week. Central fat deposition is a major feature of that survival mode and now we are entering into our 50s and 60s+ with a piper to pay and no real currency to pay him with.

That all changed with the reappearance of hCG on the health-care scene. Obesity is a stressful condition by anyone’s definition – both psychologically and physically.

It is a highly inflammatory condition. The use of hCG as an aid to weight loss allows not only the metabolism to heal, it allows the hormonal axis to rest and recharge.

This is not a program that anyone would want to undertake without a knowledgeable, experienced physician and coach in your corner but if you do, it is live changing and life saving.