LIFE EXTENSION and the WELLNESS REVOLUTION - What It’s All About!
Observing the approach of middle age, the boomers’ cry went out… resist!
As the millennium dawned, America’s largest, most affluent generation quietly began swelling the ranks of the “middle aged” ... and most weren’t thrilled with the idea. As a result, many are joining the new “resistance,” adopting such “revolutionary slogans” as: we may be aging, but we shouldn’t have to feel or act ‘old!’ Boomers, after all, have earned a reputation for embracing change. Why stop now?
Fortunately, physicians, scientists and medical researchers have been studying the processes and problems of aging for decades, with frequent, and significant progress.
In the long-term, genetics research may hold the greatest promise for finding the means to actually arrest the aging process. In the meantime, significant developments in biotechnology, endocrinology, neurology, gerontology, nutrition and other fields have given anti-aging physicians an array of solutions that work today - to help us look and feel youthful - as we grow older.
Life-Extension medicine is now the fastest growing medical specialty in the US - not merely because Americans want to live forever - but because they want to extend their productive years, and enjoy them to the fullest. The fact is, Americans are living longer - much longer. The average life span at the turn of the 20th century was about 47 years. Today it’s more than 77 - a 75% increase - and analysts predict the trend will continue - especially as society deals with life-span-limiting problems, such as obesity.
EXTENDING YOUR HEALTHSPAN
From 47 years to 77 years! A thirty year (63%) increase in life span can only be considered amazing - unless - the “extra” years are compromised by illness, or disability. Unfortunately this is too-often the case, as many people in the final one-third of their lives succumb to the degenerative diseases and disorders of aging: diabetes, arthritis, digestive, auto-immune and a wide range of others.
Meanwhile, a significant number of people do find their last 30 years of life to be nearly as active, and every bit as enjoyable as the first 47. What makes the difference for these people? While genetics do play a role, the more significant factors are education, lifestyle, and nutrition. When patients learn about their bodies and the aging process, and follow a program of enhanced nutrition and lifestyle; many will themselves once again feeling and doing things they had believed gone forever.
While medicine in general continues to increase our life span, Life Extension is more concerned with the quality of your remaining years. Extending your Healthspan means ensuring that your 2nd half at least as enjoyable and rewarding as the first. This fastest-growing new branch of medicine feeds into a worldwide database of observational data. What works for someone on the other side of the world is no longer obscured by time, distance and culture. Every day new tools and methodologies are added to the arsenal ... and practitioners and patients reap the benefits.
While we cannot turn back the clock - we can in a sense “slow it down” by eliminating sources of toxins, poor nutrition, hormonal imbalances and the degenerative diseases of aging. As they begin realizing enhanced Healthspan benefits, patients often report feeling as if the clock were running backwards.
Nu-Living Anti-Aging Concepts
One - Optimum Levels: Life extension embraces the functional medicine concept of optimal wellness. “Normal” test ranges are no longer “ends” but become the starting points, from which we define your optimal levels for peak performance of hormones, blood chemistry, and organ functioning.
Two - Comprehensive Assessment: This in-depth evaluation includes physical and lab tests, questionnaires and one-on-one interviews. The resulting data enables doctor Terlinsky to design the patient’s individualized program: a complete range of optimal wellness goals, and the nutritional, environmental and lifestyle guidelines to achieve them.
Three - Patient-Physician Partnership: Dr. Terlinsky engages in a one-on-one partnership with the patient, based on honesty, trust, and communication. This interaction supports the patient’s efforts to reach his or her program’s educational, nutritional and behavioral goals, and to realize the long-term benefits of wellness, productivity, and enjoyment of living, well into the golden years.
In the end, Wellness Optimization and Anti-Aging Medicine are really two sides of the same coin. Both seek to reduce stress, inflammation, oxidation, and toxic levels, while promoting nutrition, exercise, and positive lifestyles. Anti-aging goes a step further, prescribing hormones and other supplements achieve a more youthful body “chemistry.” Taking these steps are a personal choice, however they are by no means mandatory - great results can and are often achieved simply through diet and nutrition, education, exercise and lifestyle.
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