Alternity Healthcare Blog
Alternity Healthcare, LLC is an innovative medical practice emphasizing proactive, preventive care designed to help patients avoid degenerative diseases, regain lost vitality and achieve optimal health.
When Drugs Kill, Who is To Blame?
We have a major drug problem here in the US. No, I am not talking about illicit street drugs. I am referring to prescription medications that are supposed to help people. In the US 
every year, more people die from taking prescription medication than illegal drugs; by as much as a factor of ten. In fact, drug deaths, primarily from prescription medications, outnumber deaths from traffic accidents (LA Times). Who is protecting us from this public health crisis? Is the FDA negligent or merely ineffective? read more…
The Doctor Is In For Procrastinating Men
Dr. Desmond Ebanks of Alternity Healthcare focuses on men’s health issues. He answered questions 
about his practice for Avon LIFE.
Board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Desmond Ebanks of Avon opened Alternity Healthcare more than three years ago with the goal of helping aging patients prevent degenerative diseases and enjoy a better quality of life. His approach focuses on preventing the onset of such life-sapping conditions as heart disease and diabetes, and on instituting healthy living regimens that balance hormones and build strength. He works with both men and women in his practice, but finds men initially more reluctant to seek medical help.
Click this link to view the entire article: Aovn Life Oct 2012
Keeping Your Heart Healthy
It should be very encouraging that the average cholesterol numbers for Americans has dropped over the last twenty years. A recent study found that trend even in those that did not take
cholesterol lowering drugs. That was surprising to many experts considering the explosion in obesity during that same time period, and the presumed connection between excess dietary fats, excess body fat and blood cholesterol. This good news must be tempered, however, by another alarming fact: despite all the advances in medicine, statin drugs, stents and balloon angioplasties, and bypass surgery, heart disease remains the number one killer of Americans. And, as our American lifestyle has been exported around the world, it has become the number one killer worldwide. How can these seemingly inconsistent facts be reconciled? read more…
Age Reversal and Longevity
It is an intriguing thought. We live in a youth obsessed society. Haven’t we all reminisced about the glory days gone bye and longed to take a few years off of life’s odometer? As 
boomers age, they optimistically proclaim that 50 is the new 30 or 70 is the new 50. Is that true or just wishful thinking? Better nutrition, clean water, sanitation and medical advances have allowed us to live quite a bit longer than a century ago. Following a healthy lifestyle can lessen the damage done by the aging process; that’s part of age management. But recent discoveries now point the way to actually getting younger in the process. Maybe now we can think about making 100 the new 50. read more…
Telomere Testing
What’s Your Biological Age?
Telomere Testing is one of the most important measures of your overall health status, as it tells how fast your cells are aging through a DNA analysis. So your age might be 30, yet your true biological age is 50 (or vice versa if your are doing things right). read more…
Thinking You Are Healthy Doesn't Mean You Are
Medical Test Results You Should Know
Most of us are inundated with numbers every day. From the mundane phone numbers, passwords, sports scores and spreadsheets to the more esoteric Wall Street derivatives and mortgage-backed securities, our society couldn’t function without numbers. The specific numbers may vary from profession to profession but without exception, numbers are how we keep track. But as important as any of those numbers may be, when is the last time one of them saved your life?
In medicine, knowing the right numbers can tell how healthy you really are; ranging from how well you are aging to your individual risk of developing diseases that could impact or shorten your life. When it comes to your health, what you don’t know can really hurt you. So, what are some of the key parameters to check? read more…
New Year, New You
New Year, New You on NBC
The start of a new year is the customary time to commit to both losing weight and gaining a new lease on life. Alternity Healthcare in West Hartford urges individuals to take advantage of this time renewal by getting to the heart of their health problems and identifying health risks. In order to make real changes in your life, you must first identify the root causes of your health problems. At Alternity Healthcare, we take a different approach, performing tests and screenings that reveal your total health picture. read more…
Is Your Fat Shrinking Your Brain?
It isn’t breaking news that the majority of the US population is overweight or obese. The situation has been spiraling out of control for decades. 
Prospects for impacting this trend have been so bleak that new data indicating that US obesity rates have stabilized generated extensive news coverage, including segments on two national television networks, with many sources contrasting the high prevalence of obesity with the fact that rates are not climbing. Should we really be celebrating that a third of adults[1] and one in six kids and teenagers[2] are heavy enough to be considered obese, even if that percentage hasn’t statistically increased since 2003? Well, let’s consider the population. From 2003 to 2011, the US population increased by approximately 18 million. So that would mean about 6 million more obese adults even though the percentage did not increase. During this same period, humans as a race set a new milestone; for the first time in history there are more overweight people in the world than underweight.[3] read more…
Feed Your Brain to Avoid Dementia
As an unprecedented number of Americans approach middle and old age, there is growing public concern about the loss of mental acuity that 
often is attributed to aging. Medical advances have dramatically increased the likelihood of surviving into the period of life that has been associated both with wisdom and mental decline. It is becoming more and more common to enter into the eighth and ninth decades of life in generally good physical health, increasing the probability that the body will outlive the mind. Maintaining cognitive competency is crucial for personal independence and quality of life. Factor in the growing evidence that how one lives in earlier stages of life, including our food choices, affects cognitive aging; we all should be paying a little more attention to what we feed our brains. read more…
Recapture Your Youth
Healthy aging is a topic that gets more and more vital each year. More than 40 million Americans are 65 years old or greater and the
proportion the U.S. population over 65 is anticipated to keep increasing. Human lifespans are now at the longest they have ever been but more and more are questioning the best ways to ensure the quality of those extra years.
Aging is a complex process with many contributing environmental and genetic factors. While a person’s lifespan is not absolutely programmed into their genes, longevity is dependent on genetic mechanisms. This means that a doctor can’t run a genetic test to see what age you will live to, but they can see how well or poorly you are aging on a genetic level. The damage that we accumulate through our lives is reflected in certain areas of our genes, and these areas in turn shape the ability of our cells to continue to function.
These genetic keys to aging are called telomeres. read more…
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