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Aging may be inevitable,
but how you age is up to you.
Age Management Medicine is preventive medicine, focused on regaining and maintaining optimal health and vigor. Issues associated with aging, from body composition and energy to brain and sexual function, are largely related to hormonal deficiencies and silent inflammation. It is well known that many hormones, most notably testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, growth hormone and thyroid hormone, decline 1% to 3% yearly beginning around age 30. The lack of regular physical activity, increased stress from our modern lifestyle and a diet rich in highly processed foods with excessive, easily digested carbohydrates leads to oxidative cell damage, silent inflammation, and predisposes us to chronic degenerative diseases.
Aging is not pathologic nor a disease.
The science of age management identifies health risks.
We really don’t die of old age; we die of degenerative diseases. The science of Age Management Medicine helps identify and modulate risk categories for degenerative diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, osteoporosis, and dementia, thereby improving healthspan. This “squaring the curve” keeps our quality of life and health optimal longer; slowing the deterioration in function until just before we die.
Enjoy a better quality of life.
While we may or may not be able to increase longevity, we are able to prevent premature disability and death while enjoying a better quality of life. Once medical breakthroughs allow for increased longevity, only those on the stable plateau of the curve enjoying optimal health and a better quality of life would likely be in a position to take advantage of those medical advances.