Modern Institute of Plastic Surgery

Dr. Ryan Stanton is the founder and Medical Director, of the Modern Institute of Plastic Surgery & AntiAging in Beverly Hills, California, and its specialized subsidiary, the Beverly Hills Hormone Institute (BHHI). Dr. Stanton is a fully credentialed, "board certified" plastic and reconstructive surgeon specializing in Breast Augmentation, Facelifts, Body Contouring & Liposuction, Rhinoplasty, Blepharoplasty (eye lift) and Anti-Aging Medicine. He also performs many other common cosmetic surgery procedures.

After years of notable success in plastic surgery, Dr. Stanton, a decade ago, opened the Modern Institute of Plastic Surgery and BHHI to address Complete Body Rejuvenation. Complete Body Rejuvenation is achieved via his unique approach in dealing with both external appearance via Cosmetic Surgery Procedures at the Modern Institute of Plastic Surgery—and internal, systemic medicine through his application of Anti-Aging Techniques available through the Beverly Hills Hormone Institute (BHHI). Both approaches have maximized his patients’ outward appearance and self-esteem, while aiding health and longevity.

What makes Dr. Stanton’s approach unique, versus that of other surgeons?

Most importantly, the majority of plastic surgeons fail to realize the importance of treating the internal well-being of the patient, when performing commonplace cosmetic surgical procedures. Yet, a typical cosmetic surgical procedure may indeed appear much better even after years when this vital aspect is addressed, because the overall cellular foundation of the patient is better, versus a surgical procedure that had not allowed for that same patient’s complete bodily health. Dr. Stanton was one of the very first surgeons to realize and adopt this needed approach to medicine—patients seek his special brand of skills from nearby Los Angeles, and around the world. Specifically, Dr. Stanton focuses on:

Cosmetic Surgery Procedures—External Treatments
Procedures offered that can rejuvenate one’s external body form include: breast augmentation using implants, breast lifts and reconstruction, rhinoplasty (nose surgery), liposuction and body contouring, facelifts, labiaplasty, vaginoplasty (vaginal rejuvenation), tummy tucks and mini tummy tucks (abdominoplasty), eyelid surgery and eyelid lifts (blepharoplasty), browlifts, buttock, calf and pec augmentation, hand rejuvenation, and more.

Anti-Aging Techniques—Internal Treatments
Anti-Aging medicine/science means maintaining the body’s systemic health, particularly at the cellular level to increase cell longevity and overall body health. Simply stated, when your cells benefit from proper nutritional supplementation, enzymes, hormones and balanced body environment, they can more easily fend off attacks from common sicknesses, to cancer and other diseases. Equally important is mental conditioning and health.

There are six critical hormones that are affected as you age: estrogen, progesterone, thyroid hormones, cortisol, testosterone, and human growth hormone. Estrogen is responsible for those sexy, fertile, strong, happy, and voluptuous characteristics of being a woman. Progesterone provides those youthful, cheerful, calming, steady, well-balanced, and fertile features. Thyroid hormones are responsible for regulating all metabolic functions and energy production in the body and brain. Cortisol gives you energy, helps you handle stress, and enables you to be quick and active. Testosterone although considered a “male” hormone is important for woman by providing muscle tone, strong bones, a healthy libido, mood, and energy. Human growth hormone is kind of the master switch hormone regulating the growth and maintenance of essentially all tissues in and of the body.

Thyroid & Cortisol Hormone Replacement Therapy
Everything you do including thoughts, feelings, and emotions, physical growth and maintenance, and childbearing is influenced by hormones. Thus proactively educating yourself about them, being familiar with signs and symptoms of hormonal imbalance, and finally managing them are as crucial as anything else you do for your health and well-being. Proper nutrition and exercise are indeed important, but without the critical hormonal balance they will do little to benefit. If you are tired or depressed, have difficulty losing weight, diminished libido and/or zest for life, or if you are a woman who has irregular menstrual cycles, then you have symptoms suggestive of hormone imbalance.

Thyroid Hormone Imbalance—
It is estimated that between 30% to as much as 80% of the population has some degree of low thyroid function (Hypothyroid). Even more unfortunate is the fact that this imbalance, which affects so many aspects of health, is frequently either misdiagnosed, misunderstood, or completely overlooked. Hypothyroidism can be due to a genetic inheritance, menopause/peri-menopause, exposure to certain viruses, iodine deficiency, direct physical trauma to the thyroid gland, head trauma effecting the pituitary, autoimmune disease, or environmental toxins.

Common symptoms of Hypothyroidism include:
• Fatigue
• Accelerated aging
• Weight gain
• Cold dry skin
• Joint and muscle pain (even Fibromyalgia)
• Constipation
• Memory loss
• Brain fog
• Hair thinning/loss

If you have several of these symptoms above you should schedule an appointment with a physician specializing in hormone replacement therapy and optimization to review them and arrange for a comprehensive thyroid evaluation, including a panel of tests.

Progesterone Hormone Replacement Therapy
Progesterone provides those youthful, cheerful, calming, steady, well-balanced, and fertile features, primarily in women. In the past progesterone was regarded as simply the “pregnancy hormone” but research has proven its role to be much more expansive. Progesterone affects many tissues other than the uterus including the urinary tract, heart, blood vessels, breasts, bones, hair, skin, pelvic muscles, and brain.

Progesterone is produced primarily after ovulation by the empty egg sac. Therefore if you don’t ovulate, you make much less progesterone. There are several other (less common) reasons for low or declining progesterone levels. These include high cortisol levels, certain synthetic chemicals that incompletely mimic and interfere with estrogen (xenoestrogens), and luteal phase defects in which you ovulate but still don’t produce an adequate amount of progesterone. All these scenarios lead to an imbalance between estrogen and progesterone. As discussed before, all hormones, especially estrogens and progesterone, are kept in a very tight critical balance in order for us to function and feel our best.

Signs and Symptoms of Low Progesterone Include:
• Uterine fibroids
• Fibrocystic breasts
• Insomnia
• Weight gain
• Anxiety
• Fatigue
• Excessive menstrual bleeding
• Increased risk of breast cancer

If you have several of these symptoms above you should schedule an appointment with a physician specializing in hormone replacement therapy and optimization to review them and arrange for a comprehensive progesterone and estrogen evaluation.

Human Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy—HGH
Human growth hormone (HGH) can be considered the primary hormone regulating the growth and maintenance of essentially all tissues in and of the body. That’s the good news. The bad news, unfortunately, is that HGH levels start dropping in your 20s and then dramatically through your 30s so by the time you are 40 years old your HGH level may be only one-quarter (1/4 th) of what it was when you were 19 years old. You, however, have hope. Dr. Stanton can evaluate your current situation via testing and can turn that trend around.

There are several signs of low HGH
• Fatigue
• Weight gain (especially abdominal fat)
• Dry & thinning skin
• Decreased stamina &/or strength
• Depressed immune system & frequent colds
• Osteoporosis
• Joint and muscle aches and pains
• Slowed thinking, and more

Detoxification Therapy
Elimination of those things that speed up the aging process, such as heavy metal toxins (lead, mercury, arsenic, etc.) and oxygen free radicals (created “naturally” within human cells but un-naturally damage cellular DNA and thus damage cellular function/lifespan), is what Detoxification Therapy is all about! Unfortunately we are bombarded with these toxins everyday through the foods we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. As unfortunate, our own bodies create free oxygen radicals in response to these same toxins as well as any and all stressors (including trauma, surgery, and exercise, through sickness and in “health”) we encounter.

After a thorough history and physical exam, blood work can pinpoint what toxins are present and even what free oxygen radicals are being produced in excessive amounts. Detoxification therapy is sophisticated enough nowadays to target and thus eliminate each one of these cellular damaging problems. Typically it as simple as modifying ones nutrition in combination with taking specific dietary supplements &/or nutraceuticals (concentrated vitamins, herbals, and super-antioxidants) to effectively flush out these toxins/free oxygen radicals. The result is a healthier more efficiently operating cellular network and organs within the human body and mind!

Complete Body Fortification and Maintenance Therapy—
Internal Body Fortification and Body Maintenance Therapy, is the long term approach to healing the whole person, living disease-free, and living a productive rewarding life. Our approach, using cutting edge cellular nutrient fortification to feed your cells and occasionally hormone supplementation therapy to help power your cells, brings you to Optimal Health and Healing.

Optimal Health and Healing begins by using the Healthy Recovery Formula™ (HRF). HRF is the first nutraceutical formulation specifically designed by an aesthetic surgeon to enhance post-surgical recovery while helping the body’s overall chemical balance. It is designed to maximize the body’s internal mechanisms including; vascular development, central nervous system (CNS) tissue support, connective tissue regeneration, immune system health and other systems, to assure complete and rapid recovery from ANY surgical procedure. Additionally, and equally important, Healthy Recovery Formula contains anti-oxidants, minerals and supplements necessary to build and maintain a lean, healthy body mass. It is truly the first comprehensive surgical food of its kind, specifically for healing and continued body maintenance.

In medical and nutritional science, it’s widely understood that the human body represents a vast mechanism of chemical interaction and metabolic activity. Every day your body’s biological systems process a variety of ingested macronutrients—proteins, fats (lipids), carbohydrates—and micronutrients—minerals, vitamins and water, maintaining a controlled, balanced equilibrium, assuring that your body continues to grow/function normally, repair itself and fend off potentially harmful microbial invaders.

Optimal nutrition, before and after surgery, is generally considered a prerequisite prior to any surgical procedure being performed. Most patients are advised, in advance, that the best method to reduce post-surgical complications and increase the rate of recovery is proper and appropriate health balance. That is generally one of the reasons why all surgeons insist on CBC (complete blood count), Metabolic Profiles (lipid panels), and other pre-operative testing, to assure that the patient is not deficient in key indicative criteria.