“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” — Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas wasn’t writing about modern medicine, but his words capture something I see every day in my practice.
People are no longer accepting that growing older means giving up the parts of life they love most.
After nearly 20 years of practicing medicine, I’ve learned that people rarely come to my office asking for a better life.
They ask to lose weight.
To have more energy.
To feel younger.
To look better.
To improve their intimacy.
To stop leaking urine when they laugh.
What I’ve discovered is that those requests are rarely just about appearance or a single symptom. More often, they’re about wanting to feel like themselves again.
That’s when the real conversation begins.
For generations, we accepted fatigue, weight gain, declining intimacy, urinary leakage, and loss of strength as simply part of aging. While growing older is inevitable, unnecessary suffering shouldn’t be.
The greatest lessons I’ve learned haven’t come from textbooks or medical conferences. They’ve come from my patients.
One gentleman dreaded coming home each day because of the four steps leading into his house. Before we addressed his weight, hormone balance, and chronic inflammation, those four stairs felt like a mountain. He would sit in his car for a moment, gathering the energy just to walk inside. Today, he walks through his front door without giving those steps a second thought.
To most people, that’s just four stairs.
To him, it meant getting his independence back.
Another patient, a grandmother in her sixties, loved her grandchildren but quietly avoided chasing them around the yard. Even laughing too hard made her worry about urinary leakage. After treatment with EmpowerRF, she didn’t tell me about the procedure. She smiled and said, “I’m playing tag again.”
Those are the moments that remind me why I still love practicing medicine.
Healthcare isn’t simply about treating disease. It’s about restoring confidence, preserving independence, and helping people stay connected to the people and activities that give their lives meaning.
Today’s approach to wellness recognizes that weight management, hormone health, mental well-being, and sexual wellness are often connected. When we address them together, patients often experience improvements that reach far beyond the numbers on a scale or the results of a lab test.
Innovations like hormone therapy for appropriately selected patients, along with technologies such as EmpowerRF for women’s pelvic health and ApexRF for men’s intimate wellness, are expanding what’s possible. More importantly, they’re changing the conversation. Problems once dismissed as “just getting older” now deserve thoughtful discussion with a trusted healthcare provider.
My goal has never been to help people chase youth.
It’s to help them keep doing the things that make life worth living.
If you’ve stopped doing something you love because of fatigue, embarrassment, pain, declining confidence, or changes you’ve assumed are simply part of aging, start the conversation. You may discover that getting older and living well can go hand in hand.
About the Author
Dr. JaVar Myatt-Jones is a double board-certified physician and founder of My Total Wellness and Aesthetic Clinic in Florence, Alabama. He is passionate about helping patients optimize their health through preventive medicine, medical weight management, hormone optimization, sexual wellness, and healthy aging.
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