I wanted to personally thank our REVITA patients, for their support which has enabled REVITA to help the community throughout 2010.  100% of corporate profits for the last two years have been donated to charity. REVITA’s CEO funded the start up of three new companies and hired eight new employees for REVITA, provide during the recession. He [...]

Progressive resistance exercise training uses excessive resistance to counter muscle force, causing fatigue after only a few repetitions. Those able and willing to follow the intense regimen have increased their lean body mass and lost fat mass. Megestrol acetate (a synthetic progestational agent ) and dronabinol (a component of marijuana ) have been shown to [...]

The availability of recombinant human growth hormone (GH) has resulted in investigation of the role of GH in adulthood and the effect of GH replacement in the GH-deficient adult. These studies have led to the recognition of a specific syndrome of GH-deficiency, characterized by symptomps, sign and investigative findings. Adults with long-standing growth hormone deficiency [...]

Stephen J. Winters, MD Testosterone plays an essential role in the development of the normal male and in the maintenance of many male characteristics, including muscle mass and strength, bone mass, libido, potency, and spermatogenesis. Androgen deficiency occurs with disorders that damage the testes, including traumatic or surgical castration (primary testicular failure) or disorders in [...]

Androgen status is affected to a greater degree by advancing age than by menopause. Dehydroepiandrosterone and DHEAS concentrations begin declining in the second decade of life, so that by 80 years of age serum levels are approximately 2-% to 30% of peak levels. One large, longitudinal study showed a 13% decline in mean DHEAS and [...]