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Patient Testimonials on Aging:

Dr. Castellanos is a blessing to our family. We have been looking for him for years and it is such a joy to have finally found him. What took us so long? He is unique. Let me tell you how.

I understand my body and how it works. Until we turned 50, we were able to maintain good health on our own. This may sound familiar to many of you. As the body ages, things change dramatically. Ask yourself why and what if you could slow this process down? Working with Dr. Castellanos, we are beginning to do that and once again, the ability to maintain our health is beginning to become easier because we are reversing some of the damage we have done. We must accept that it is OUR RESPONSIBILITY. My husband and I have no problem accepting this; we have been searching for a physician who wants our participation in caring for ourselves. Dr. Castellanos reminded us, in a very gentle and caring way, what we ourselves changed that put our aging process on such a rapid course. Let me give you an idea:

We were both physically very active. My husband used to ride his bicycle to work at Cal Poly form Los Osos. His diet was mostly fruit, grains and vegetables. With a career change, he now works only blocks form our home and spends most of his day at a desk. Short of time, he began eating at restaurants where fried things were the bill of fare. The result: overweight, adult on-set diabetes and two injections of insulin a day. Throw in painful cold feet and some high blood pressure and you have the picture of a person miserable inside his own body. Reverse it! Forget the coffee, drink water. Walk five miles a day and concentrate on a diet of fruits and vegetables. He is laughing again, no insulin needed, the toes will not need to come off... the circulation is back. This sounds so simple. It is and it isn’t. Each of us live in a complicated world that needs advisors to keep us on track.

My experience is a little different, yet the same. I got a bum set of genes. So what? In my case since these genes control my digestive track and I mixed in way too much stress and again too much restaurant food and desk time. I found myself living on Prednisone to control Ulcerative Colitis big time. It is better than it has been in ten years. I have been off these steroids for a while now. Exercise, diet, rest. I am a melanoma survivor. So how about being proactive and take off some of those lumps and bumps that have the potential to “go bad” and not wait until they already have. This removes some stress in my life. I take my car to the mechanic to have the oil changed; why not do the same for myself? Why did Dr. Castellanos make such a difference? Because sometimes it is hard, to find a Doctor who will take the time to PREVENT HEALTH PROBLEMS or who understands NUTRITION. Doctors are just like the rest of us and too many of them get caught up in the everyday whirl where they only have the time to treat the already sick.

It is hard work to stay well. We work hard at it everyday. We do not want to get sick and/or have a need to take medicine, be old before our time or spend time in a hospital if we can help it. We need Dr. Castellanos and want him in our lives to mirror back the pictures of ourselves when we get off the track, we need his expertise to keep us informed about how our bodies work and if necessary, prescribe healthy solutions.

Rolf and Melinda Monteen

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