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Repeatedly since the genesis of the anti-aging medical movement in 1991, the media has sought to demonize the use of hormone replacement therapies in healthy but deficient adults. Relying on partisan – and often misinformed – critics, the media fuel and encourage hysteria among the public, which thereby results in a climate of misguided federal and state actions that seek to restrict these safe, proven, life-enhancing therapies.

Attempts to criminalize the practice of medicine where variations to State Board-favored traditional care threaten the continued advancement of innovative medicine. In these situations, there are no injured patients and no victims yet criminal proceedings are waged against progressive health professionals. State officials abuse their authority in recasting minor administrative issues as criminal acts; this is unjust and may be considered as criminal abuse of their publicly elected positions. Sensationalization by media confuses the public, with false allegations suggesting that HRT in clinically documented cases of adult deficiency syndromes equates to the abuse of performance-enhancing anabolic steroids.

The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) is resolute in defending the rights of the patient working in conjunction with their physician in choosing any and all justifiable therapies, drugs and interventions which can be shown to improve either the quality or duration of the human lifespan or the form and function of the individual's physiology in order to achieve greater vitality and health at every age. It is in fact the physician's duty to act as an advocate for the patient's right to obtain the full lawful measure of scientific medical therapeutics necessary for optimum health and personal freedom of choice in healthcare.

The observation by George Orwell (1903-1950), English novelist, in the prognostic classic novel 1984, that: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” predicts that In a world where lies are supported by the establishment, to stand firm for truth is a dangerous and revolutionary action. Physicians of conscience and good will must unite to take back the future – or all freedoms, including freedom of choice in healthcare – will be lost forever.