If you want to pick up something with a handle, like a suit case, then where you grab is very simple. But, if you plan to pick up something that is an odd shape, like a couch or table, you might need to stop and think for a few minutes about where is the best place to grasp the object before you start to lift.

Helping someone find a "New You" can be the same lifting the couch--the physician should stop and think where is the best place to start. Beginning the process of trnasforming someone's health and body is much more complicated than picking up a couch. With some people, the diet is perfect but the exercise part is off. Or the woman may be exerciising like a pro but her hormones are off (hormones control metabolism).

Before picking up a couch, I might stop and think for a few seconds. Before starting a woman with a new plan to find a new yoiu, I usually spend 2 hours with her (and with her husband if he will come with her to the forst visit).

The tragedy to me is that with so many people, the healh care professional has a hammer so everything looks like a nail (or has a liposucation machine so everything looks like it neess liposuction, etc).

I look at a person as a very complicated colledtions of gifts and problems and try to accentuate the gifts and correct the problems in an order that gives the most dramatic results in the quickest way. One woman may have an amazing mouth but when she loses weight her cheeks become flat. So with her, weight loss should come first, then a liquid face lift with augmentation of the cheeks with Juvaderm or Radiessse.

Another woman may have a normal weight, but suffer with an unsightly fat-pad pooch at the lower abdomen and she feels tired all of the time. With her, I might start with laser asisted liposuction using the Lipolite while simultaneiously designing a tailor-made hormone replacement routine that helps her have better sex, more energy, and keep the pooch away after liposuction.

So the components vary and the order of introducing each component varies with each woman.

Here are the basic components of the "New You this Year" plan (each component started at different sequences with each woman depending upon her body):

1. Full hisstory and physical (you can keep your regular doctor and your gynecologist but I want to know as much as I can about you). I want to know all the details of everything that bothers you and everything that's ever happened to you medically. I will use my 30 years experience as a personal trainer and exercise fanatic, and 19 years experience as a physician and researcher to find the exact best way to address your probllems and the order in which to address them.
2. A full hormoneal profile. Most of my patients have been told that their hormone are normal. I was doing research with growth hormone before Suzanne Somers wrote the first of her 4 books on hormone replacement.
3. If needed, Laser Assisted LipoSuction (LipoLite) through an incision smaller than a pencil eraser
4. If needed, infrafrered combined with radio frequency (VelaShape) for reduction in cellulite and waist size with NO incision.
5. Skin rejuvenation using the Obagi system combined with individuallized components like Clayton Shagal collegen, retin A, and other components (done in conjunction with Jeanne Sanborne at the Complete Skin Care Center).
6. Liquid Facelift and lip augmentation if neede with Juvederm or Radiesse.
7. BOTOX cosmetic.

For more information, tell me your story by email (include phots if possible), or call 251-342-6466 for free consult with me (you get a gift just for taking the time to come talk with me...the gift vaires with your health needs).

A note on cost: The lab testing can often be billed to your insurance carrier. If you do not have insurance, you can buy your lab testing through me at a discounted price. I do not accept insurance for any reason. The total cost varies from person to person depending upon the goals and problems of the patient but generally varies from $1,500 to $10,000.

Individual components of the plan may be purchased separately.

Peace & Health,

Charles Runels, MD

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