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ATTENTION TO OUR BRAIN          INDIVIDUALIZED TREATMENT           She notes, however, that it is the
                   If you are at the gym engaged   At their state-of-the-art facility, Dr.   “protocol” component that requires
                in an exercise that you have done   Tanio and the Rezilir Health team first   most attention, in the form of hard
                a thousand times, and suddenly you   evaluate your results and then develop   work and support. Like someone who
                feel a twinge in your lower back, you   a multi-pronged treatment plan cus-  resolves to start the new year with a
                immediately stop – because you know   tomized to your own individual needs   gym membership – they know that
                if you continue you could exacerbate   and preferences.         just signing up isn’t enough.
                the problem.                       For many patients, the plan begins   “Getting physically and mentally
                   So why is it that if you fail to   with a change to a brain-healthy   healthy often requires a person to
                remember where you parked upon   diet – one that emphasizes healthy   fundamentally change parts of their life.
                leaving the gym, you simply attribute   vegetables, healthy fats, and removal   It requires a tremendous commitment,
                that condition to forgetfulness, to get-  of foods that can cause inflammation   and the nutritional aspect alone can
                ting older, or just another silly “senior   such as wheat. They not only devise a   mean a complete lifestyle change.
                moment.”                        nutrition plan, but even demonstrate   For some, investing in a healthy
                   The fact is, as our physical health   for patients and family members how   diet can also be a financial challenge,
                starts to decline, without question, we   to prepare healthy options in Rezilir   asserts Motola. “Yes, health care can be
                will take immediate action to remedy   Health’s on-site test kitchen.   expensive, but ‘sick care’ is even more
                the problem. Dr. Tanio believes that   The facility also features hyperbaric   expensive.”
                attention to our brain health should be  chambers, infrared saunas, an herbal   The brain is the most important
                no different.                   pharmacy, intravenous therapy, and   organ in your body. It is also the most
                   According to a study in “The   Chinese medicine treatments such as   resilient. That is why Rezilir Health and
                Lancet” medical journal, 35 percent of   acupuncture. The team keeps close   its team of world-class clinicians are
                cognitive decline can be prevented, but  track of current research in this area   dedicated to delivering the best of
                in order to do that, a person has to be   and closely collaborates with other   conventional and integrative medi-
                willing to first admit that there might   related clinical groups.   cine to address diseases like
                be decline. For many, especially those   “First and foremost, we want our   Alzheimer’s.
                with brain-health issues in their family   patients to feel hopeful,” says Dr. Tanio   While there may
                history, avoiding the issue is easier than   of the goal of Rezilir Health. “After that,  not be cure, there are
                facing the reality.             we want to fix brains, address root   certainly promising
                   Consider that when AIDS first   causes, and build resilience.”   tools that make a dif-
                became a worldwide epidemic, it was                             ference in how patients
                believed that a diagnosis was equiva-  RESILIENCE IS THE KEY    are feeling, performing,
                lent to a death sentence, so many peo-  Rezilir gets its name from the word  and functioning
                ple preferred not to know. Through   resilience – and for many reasons. The   – and that
                research and advancement in medi-  brain is a tremendously resilient organ,   offer great
                cine, coupled with more education and  but it also refers to the resiliency need-  hope for
                information, it became evident that   ed by the patients, and as importantly,   a healthy
                living with HIV is completely manage-  their family members.    future.
                able – if caught early.            That is why Rezilir Health’s ap-
                   “There are clear methods of   proach places a great emphasis on a
                testing to measure brain performance   patient’s family, too.
                and subsequently, minimizing the fear.   For Motola, optimal wellness and
                Addressed early, a lot of the decline is   optimal outcomes occur, “when you
                reversible,” advises Dr. Tanio, “If you are   take care of the patient, the care-
                worried about Alzheimer’s or demen-  giver, and the protocol.” In addition
                tia in your future, get it checked out   to co-founding the practice, Motola
                now.”                           serves as President of Rezilir Health.




                Rezilir Health is located at 1930 Harrison St.,
                Suite 404, Hollywood, FL 33020. For information,
                call 786-780-1188 or visit www.rezilirhealth.com.



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