What is Anti-Aging Medicine? If you have had your cholesterol tested, taken a lipid-lowering drug, had a mammogram, or taken HRT with thyroid, testosterone, estrogen, 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.

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.

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); 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 Alzheimer's and osteoporosis, are preventable and treatable, even reversible, with proper modification of life styles, nutrition and medication.