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Best Of 2024: A4M Recaps The Top Longevity Developments In 2024

Best of 2024: The Stories That Defined Longevity

Medicine stopped asking “what if” and started delivering “what’s next” in 2024.

Familiar drugs revealed new powers – GLP-1s protected brain tissue while reshaping metabolic health. Psychedelic therapy protocols moved from promising data to proven results. Anti-aging treatments once reserved for elite clinics found their way to neighborhood practices. Meanwhile, in pop-up enclaves across the globe, independent communities merged Web3 tools with longevity research, questioning every assumption about how science advances.

Yet, as medical possibilities soared to new heights, U.S. life expectancy data laid bare the chasm between medical capability and public health reality. This stark contrast forced hard questions about implementation – not just of new treatments, but of medical education itself.

Real-time analysis from the A4M Blog translated emerging science into practical guidance. From hormone optimization advances in menopause care to supplement safety investigations that exposed dangerous oversight gaps, each new revelation spurred meaningful progress in modern healthcare.

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A4M LA Symposium To-Go PART 2: High-Impact Takeaways For Your Practice

A4M LA Symposium To-Go PART 2: High-Impact Takeaways Delivered To Your Practice 

(Part 2)

The buzz of excitement from the A4M September Symposium in Los Angeles is still in the air and rippling through our practices, inspiring new approaches and refining existing ones. As we continue to process and apply the vast array of clinical pearls presented, we’re excited to share the second installment of our Symposium To-Go series

Rounding out essential lessons learned at the event, these practical takeaways offer a valuable window into the latest advancements in integrative and anti-aging medicine, including even more developments in endocrine system optimization and functional fertility interventions. Synthesized from hours of detailed presentations by expert practitioner-educators, the insights below are designed to provide immediately applicable information and timely expertise. 

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The Functional Guide To Cycle-Based Care: Syncing Life to Hormonal Shifts For Peak Female Wellness

Eleven studies met criteria for being considered high quality, with nine studies indicating that rates of completed or attempted suicide were highest during menstruation and two studies indicating these rates were highest premenstrually.Handy, Ariel B et al. “Psychiatric Symptoms Across the Menstrual Cycle in Adult Women: A Comprehensive Review.” 

This startling revelation appears in an article published in the April 2022 edition of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.

Notably, the study continues to connect specific phases of the menstrual cycle to psychosis, mania, depression, binge eating, and alcohol abuse – comorbidities rarely seen outside of severe psychiatric disorders.

Challenging the conventional view of the menstrual cycle as a mere monthly inconvenience, this research reveals hormonal fluctuations as complex physiological processes with a profound (and potentially deadly) impact on female physical and mental health – an impact that extends far beyond the commonly understood symptoms of premenstrual syndrome, or PMS.

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