Spotlight on Business: Longevity Centres of America

The Longevity Centres of America is an Institute for anti-aging, weight loss, Infusion and hyperbaric medicine.

After 48 years of combined experience, Drs. Marina and Gurney Pearsall have found that a combination approach to anti-aging medicine is most effective. In addition to the Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Pellets we use Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), Detoxification (IV Chelation, Colon Hydrotherapy with the Colonic Introduction of our Proprietary Rx such as: Chlorophyll-Electrolyte Solution, Far Infrared Therapy), Micronutrition Rescue via IV Vitamin/Mineral Therapy, and Medical Weight Loss with HCG.  This has resulted in a higher success rate when compared to the one-dimensional approach of prescribing Bio-Identical HRT as a stand-alone program.

Longevity Centres of America’s mission is to help people who wish to age gracefully and maintain physical, mental, sexual, and emotional health while restoring their bodies to a younger state than their actual age.

Dr.  Marina Pearsall, M.D., Ph.D received her medical degree in 1981, then completed a fellowship in cardiology and received a PhD in 1986 in cardiac physiology.  Both her parents were doctors, and she found their passion for healing infectious.  They practiced at a time when doctors relied on physical exams, when unraveling patient complaints was more of an art than a science. They taught her to listen to patients, to never dismiss patient complaints, however strange or unusual the complaints may seem.
“They taught me to be open-minded, so that I never stop learning and looking for answers. They taught me not to follow where the path may lead, but to go instead where there is no path…and leave a trail,” said Dr. Pearsall.
“I believe in treating the patient as a whole and not as his or her individual symptoms.  Unfortunately, such an approach doesn’t fit today’s high-volume, minimum time per patient one symptom at a time medicine, so I decided to open my own practice.” 
In an age of managed care and large medical corporations, this was no easy feat. Many told Dr. Pearsall that this endeavor was doomed to fail. With a long history of being a political refugee, she was not so easily intimidated.  During this time, she came across the new fascinating science of anti-aging medicine, and fell in love with it. 
“I love what I do!  Helping my patients get off the slippery slope of aging decline and making fundamental changes in the way they look, feel and live the rest of their lives fulfills my dream.  Isn’t that why I became a doctor?”
Dr. Gurney F. Pearsall, Jr., M.D. received his medical degree in 1992 and entered into trauma surgery training at MLK County Hospital, Los Angeles and joined the US Army Reserves.  From 1993 – 1997 he underwent further general surgery training at Chicago’s Columbus Hospital.  From 1997 – 1999 he finalized his training with Baylor’s family medicine program in Houston, TX.  This renaissance-style medical training experience provided Dr. Pearsall with an in-depth exposure to both primary care medicine and specialty care medicine.  His family is replete with physicians: father, father-in-law, mother-in-law, wife, sister, brother-in-law and brother.  The combination of growing up in a medical family with a very broad training experience led him to quickly realize the power of prevention.
         
As a Lt. Colonel with four overseas deployments to his credit, Dr. Pearsall understands the obligation to attend to the acutely injured soldier.  As a private practitioner, he also understands the need for a stronger, more fortified brand of preventative medicine.  Early in his career, he discovered and joined the field of medicine known as anti-aging.  Anti-aging medicine is a clinical specialty that is founded on the application of advanced scientific and medical technologies for the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reversal of age-related dysfunction, disorders, and diseases. It is a healthcare model promoting innovative science and research to prolong the healthy lifespan in humans.  After all, when health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth becomes useless and reason is powerless.
“Within the patient-doctor relationship, I perceive my role as that of a teacher or a coach and not that of an overbearing figure who barks out orders that should be followed to the letter….or else,” said Dr. Pearsall.
“I think of myself as the calm GPS voice that helps guide my patients through a foggy cloud of confusion and cacophony of symptoms to a clear and defined path to wellness.  This is my passion and I love my job.”
Longevity Centres of America is located at 4100 E. Mississippi Ave., Suite 110. For more information, visit their Web site at www.longevitycentres.com or call (303) 639-5600