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If you live in peace, are relaxed at home and at work, if your lipids are well controlled or if you have appropriately taken HRT (hormone replacement therapy), testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, melatonin, or DHEA, you have experienced anti-aging medicine. This form of medicine is based on the very early detection, prevention, and reversal of age-related disease. 90% of all adult illness is due to the degenerative processes of aging. This includes heart disease, most cancers, adult-onset diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, autoimmune disease, glaucoma, and Alzheimer's.
With early detection and appropriate intervention, most of these diseases can be prevented, cured, or have their downward course reversed.
Techniques for rejuvenating the body and lengthening life are already available to the doctors of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M).
Anti-aging medicine is the newest clinical medical specialty, the "optimum" of wellness and longevity, and employs extensive therapies and treatment in the preventative health care field far beyond just cholesterol testing and mammograms. A profound paradigm shift in the way the medical establishment views aging and age-related disease is now underway.
Our nation's health care system demands a radically different approach to how we view and medically treat aging. The demographics of aging necessitate we change from the current disease-based model of medicine, to a more preventative one, otherwise the Canadian and U.S. healthcare systems will go bankrupt under the weight of the baby boomer generation as they reach retirement age in 2011, and develop the chronic, degenerative diseases of aging!
Physicians practicing anti-aging medicine seek to enhance the quality of life as well as its quantity, limiting the period of illness and disability toward the end of one's life. Anti-aging medicine encompasses life style changes (diet and exercise); hormone replacement therapies as needed -- determined by a physician through blood testing (DHEA, melatonin, thyroid, HGH, estrogen, testosterone) and clinical assessment; antioxidants and vitamin supplements; and testing protocols which can measure not only hormone levels and blood chemistry, but every metabolic factor in your body right down to the cellular level. Many of the dreaded diseases of today, such as heart disease Alzheimer's and osteoporosis, are preventable and treatable, even reversible, with proper modification of life styles, nutrition and medication.
Anti-aging medicine will forever change the way society views going to the doctor's office. Instead of waiting until a person is sick or exhibiting some type of symptoms, a person will visit the doctor, to monitor potential illnesses or conditions -- before they occur. The advances made in modern medicine in beating the leading causes of death today (cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes) have been achieved via early detection and prevention techniques, rather than through disease-based treatments.
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We start aging in our twenties - are you aging? Testing for the biomarkers of aging is available at Longevity Healthy Aging™ Research Group (LHA™). For an appointment, contact us at 416-652-9862 or 1-866-YOUNG-86.
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