Anti-aging Medicine and Disease Prevention

Anti-aging and disease prevention are our primary objectives at Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic (serving Mississauga, Oakville, Etobicoke, West Toronto). Not only can we accelerate the healing of tissues and reduce, control or eliminate pain, but at the center of it all we can help you to return to a healthy state and to resist the effects of aging and disease to the maximum possible extent.

What is the Definition of Anti-aging?

It’s complicated. It may seem simple or obvious but it’s not. A war is currently being fought over the meaning of "anti-aging" (as research, medicine, brand, or simply adjective). If you type anti-aging into Google, you will get more than 20 million hits. How are you going to decide which of those articles applies to you?

Anti-aging medicine, as practiced at Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic (serving Mississauga, Oakville, Etobicoke, West Toronto), is also known as functional medicine, a rapidly growing aspect of medical care. In the medical community, anti-aging medicine means early detection, prevention, and reversal of age-related diseases and a wide array of strategies and therapies are currently available. Your body can heal itself if you give it a chance.

Because of the wide range of products and services that claim to have anti-aging impact, you need a doctor with training and experience in this field. At Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic, Dr. Zoya, a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), believes in prolonging the highest possible quality of life so that you can enjoy the extra years that we now experience to the fullest possible extent.

Anti-aging medicine is based on principles of sound and responsible care that are consistent with those applied in other preventive health specialties.

How is Anti-aging Medicine Applied at Stop the Clock Clinic?

Internal anti-aging strategies

Allergy Treatments

Bio-identical hormone counselling

Nutrition

Exercise

Detoxification

Cosmetic anti-aging strategies

Restore fullness to thinning hair

Re-grow lost hair

Internal anti-aging strategies

Allergy Treatments

Allergy treatments have been discussed in the Asthma and Allergy Clinic page mainly in relation to conditions that present observable, identifiable, inconvenient or uncomfortable effects. However, it has become clear from the number of patients that we have treated, that there is also a set of symptoms that we largely assume are the inevitable consequences of aging. They are, but they don't need to be.

Who hasn’t noticed the appearance of various digestion complaints or allergies as they get older? They are the consequences of the errors of judgment by your immune system forced to operate in an incredibly toxic environment. The older you get, the more mistakes your immune system has made. But when these mistakes involve mis-identifying your own digestive acids, amino acids, enzymes and hormones as the enemy, the immune system is constantly on guard against and fighting against your own vital biochemistry (i.e., sensitivity issues or resistance to). So, in addition to interfering with your vital processes, wherein it has essentially become an agent of aging, the immune system is so busy that there is the risk of it missing real invaders, thus making you vulnerable to disease.

The Advanced Allergy Therapeutics (AAT) database includes most of human digestive acids, amino acids, enzymes and hormones and treatment is capable of re-setting these mistakes. Not only does the Advanced Allergy Therapeutics system reduce your inflammatory state, treating your observable/noticeable issues, but the system is also capable of neutralizing resistance to your own biochemistry which is constantly in progress because you can’t escape, thus freeing up the immune system to go back to its main job of looking for and identifying intruders.

Contact us at Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic (serving Mississauga, Oakville, Etobicoke, West Toronto) regarding Adavanced Allergy Therapeutics treatments.

Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Counselling

Replacing hormones, the production of which naturally reduces with age, is another theory that some believe will reverse the aging process. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), previously widely used for women approaching and in menopause, recently received a massive black eye because the synthetic hormones that were being prescribed had unexpected side effects that were sometimes fatal and generally increased the risk of serious health problems.

A new class of hormones,Bioidentical hormones, made from botanical plants such as soy and yams are now available. The human body cannot convert these directly into natural hormones. Natural plants after pharmaceutical processing can produce, for example, natural bioidentical progesterone and bioidentical estrogens, in a transdermal cream or oral supplement. These final products, when either rubbed on the skin or swallowed by the patient, are identified by the human body as being biologically identical to the natural hormones of the body and do not carry the risk of unexpected side effects.

There is a host of bioidentical hormones available (DHEA, Human Growth Hormone, Testosterone, Melatonin, etc.) but they don’t act in isolation. They interact. They are instruments in an orchestra. You cannot just focus on one issue. The complete picture needs to be assessed by someone with the appropriate training. At Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic we can help you to understand the issues.

Contact us at Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic (serving Mississauga, Oakville, Etobicoke, West Toronto) regarding your hormone issues and concerns.

Nutrition

YOU TRULY ARE WHAT YOU EAT!

Food is chemistry. Food is medicine. At Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic (Mississauga, Etobicoke, West Toronto) we can counsel you on:

• nutrition plans to reduce/remove your inflammatory state (broadly-based, organic when possible, avoiding dangerous foods)
• supplementation when necessary, to correct imbalances or deficiencies, not all supplements are created equal, Dr. Zoya has done the research, (various methods of supplementation are available)

Dr Zoya has studied clinical nutrition, including dietary approach and orthomolecular training in immune disorders with a focus on oncology, i.e. cancer treatment and prevention, auto-immune diseases and inflammation, gastro-intestinal disorders, endocrine and obesity-related disorders, women’s and men’s health, skin conditions, thyroid disorders, mood, cognitive and neurological disorders, including depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, ADHD and autism, from Canadian, US and UK researchers and practitioners.

Contact us at Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic (serving Mississauga, Oakville, Etobicoke, West Toronto) regarding your nutrition and diet issues and concerns

Exercise (heroics not required)

Exercise is essential not only for maintaining the tone of the muscle that you have but also for increasing the mass of your bone and muscle tissue. The repetitive “stresses” of exercise have been shown to direct the specialization of your own stem cells to create bone and muscle tissue. In the absence of the correct signals, the stem cells may very well develop into fat cells.

Detoxification

As described on the Detoxification page, toxins are substances that you pick up from the environment or ingest with your food or drink that can attach to proteins causing them to distort their shapes. Proteins are the machinery of life. Their shape defines their function. When proteins become distorted, the function that it was supposed to perform is not being done. This causes a cascade of undesirable and damaging effects in our bodies. Our bodies are already extremely toxic. Some tests have been reported in the newspapers showing people that they are carrying in their bodies traces of several hundred toxic substances, chemicals that are either controlled or have been banned. At Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic, we can help you to cleanse your body of its toxic load and restore correct functioning.

Contact us at Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic (serving Mississauga, Oakville, Etobicoke, West Toronto) regarding our naturopathic detoxification options.

Cosmetic Anti-aging strategies

Our primary focus to date has been on promoting the internal aspects of anti-aging. However, it doesn’t hurt to look good as you are feeling good. Generally, you will look healthier, slimmer and firmer, as well as feeling better, if you set your biochemistry back on the right path. But, even after optimizing your biochemistry, your hair is a separate issue.

Restore thinning hair / re-grow lost hair

Many people have thinning hair or have lost their hair and special effort is needed to reverse this situation. Most people believe that hair thinning and hair loss is inevitable and inescapable. Not so! We can help. Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic (Mississauga, Etobicoke, West Toronto) has acquired an innovative and exciting “cold” laser technology from Precision Laser Therapy that can reverse the damage that caused the thinning and loss of hair, unclogging hair follicles and re-starting the growth of hair. Simply applying topicals or taking drugs is not sufficient. There are multiple causes and a multi-pronged approach is required and YES, it works and we can do it. Please visit www.stoptheclocklaser.com for more information or

Contact us at Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic regarding the re-growth of YOUR hair (serving Mississauga, Oakville, Etobicoke, West Toronto).

Skin Rejuvenation and Acne Treatment

The Precision Laser Therapy unit also comes equipped with light "wands" that deliver a different set of frequencies capable of skin rejuvenation by stimulating the formation of collagen, thus smoothing out wrinkling skin . Used in conjunction with pure aloe gel and a superb botanical cream, the Precision Laser Therapy unit provides a natural botanical face lift and a healthy glow to your skin without painful botox injections. 

A  different light wand with yet another set of frequencies is available for acne treatment.

Please visit www.stoptheclocklaser.com for more information or

Contact us at Stop the Clock Naturopathic Clinic (serving Mississauga, Oakville, Etobicoke, West Toronto) regarding skin rejuvenation or acne treatment.