Anti-Aging

Anti-aging medicine, also known as “healthy aging medicine”, targets the early detection, prevention, treatment and reversal of age-related degenerative diseases.  These include heart disease, cancer, Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, Alzheimer’s and osteoarthritis.  Anti-aging medicine works to prevent periods of illness and disability, and enhance the quantity and quality of life.

Why Wait until You’re Sick

Conventional medicine focuses on symptoms and maintaining body functions, utilizing drug therapy and surgeries for diseases and health conditions as they arise.  Following this approach, however, studies have shown that the last 10-20 years of life are often filled with pain and suffering, and they are not the joyous, golden years people envisioned.  With anti-aging medicine, you visit the doctor to monitor potential illness and disease before it happens.  Individualized programs and treatments focus on optimal health.

Get Active and Eat Healthy

Exercise is a powerful anti-aging activity that significantly lowers the risk of death from all causes.  When combined with a healthy, balanced diet and nutritional supplements, you can cut 10-20 years off your age.  To effectively monitor your exercise program, your body composition (fat, muscle, water, etc.) is determined with Biomarker testing, the gold standard assessment used at longevity centres.  The test also determines your cellular health.  If you are overweight, the Weight Loss Program is utilized to reach and maintain an ideal weight.  Vital Signs testing assesses your heart health by computing the stiffness of your aorta where it leaves your heart.  The test calibrates your stress levels from heart rate variability, a measure of the responsiveness of your autonomic nervous system. 

Take out the Garbage

Environmental toxins wreak havoc on the aging process by disrupting normal cell and body function.  Permeating our air, water and food, they accumulate in your body over the years.  If you have worked in an industry where there is high exposure to toxins (forestry, mining, manufacturing and industrial, automotive, dentistry) then your toxic load will be even higher.  Toxins are more pronounced in smokers and drug users, both illegal and pharmaceutical.  Your body starts to breakdown leading to inflammations, fatigue, allergies, and other illnesses.  Over time this escalates to more serious conditions including cancer and heart disease.  Toxic metal testing accurately measures the levels of mercury, lead, cadmium and other heavy metals in your body.  Treatment with Medical Detoxification removes toxins responsible for speeding the aging process, allowing your cells to function as originally designed.  Long-term studies in Europe have indicated that when you remove heavy metals, you significantly reduce your risk of developing cancer and heart disease (and other diseases). 

Reduce Disease Risk

We get older because our hormones decline.  This is the hallmark of aging.  For people who are taking more prescription medicines as they age, hormone deficiencies are even greater.  Drugs are one of the major causes of hormone dysfunction.  Toxins also throw hormones out of balance.  All of this leads to illness and disease.  Blood and saliva testing determines the major hormonal deficiencies for testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, pregnenolone, DHEA and vitamin D.  Natural hormones from plant sources are prescribed to correct imbalances.  Plant hormone precursors (materials that hormones are made from), amino acids and other natural medicines are also provided to enhance hormonal health.  Of particular note, studies have shown that vitamin D helps to slow the aging process and protect against age-related disease. 

Keep Your Mind Sharp

The hormone pregnenolone may be the best memory enhancer known to science.  Therapeutic doses of special anti-oxidants and amino acids also prevent memory deterioration.  These medicines are prominent in the related Memory Loss Prevention Program.  You can prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease with a comprehensive program.

Slow Down Aging

You don’t have to be afraid of getting old and succumbing to a major illness or disease.  Aging does not have to be wrought with pain and suffering.  Anti-aging medicine has the tools for you to age gracefully and feel your best at all times.

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