What is Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine?
Anti-Aging Medicine has many facets. Our focus is on the Preventive/Integrative medicine for wellness and Aesthetic Medicine.
We see the medical aspect as an extension of preventive health care but in a more individualized manner.
This new field is based on the early detection, prevention, and possibly reversal of degenerative diseases. Approximately 80% of all adult illness is due to degenerative processes. This includes heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, glaucoma, and Alzheimer’s.
With early detection and appropriate intervention, some of these diseases may be prevented or have their downward course moderated. While we await the results of definitive research, there are simple things that you can start today.
The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine was established in 1997 as a professional physician certification and review board, which offers physician recognition in the form of specialty-based examination in Anti-Aging Medicine.
Anti-Aging Medicine is not about staying young forever or turning back time as is sometimes portrayed in the media or aggressive marketing ads.
Emerging science however, does seem to suggest that exercise has benefits beyond what we knew previously. Specifically, it may be an effective treatment for depression, it may reduce the risk of cancer recurrence, reduce the symptoms of osteoarthritis and all as a result may make you feel younger. As a result, we often prescribe exercise for our patients. Our office has a small well equipped gym where private evaluation and training can be performed.
Sometimes, the way we feel inside does not match what we see in the mirror. We do offer Anti-aging Aesthetic Medicine services and those are described in more detail elsewhere on this site.
