What is Longevity Medicine?
Longevity medicine focuses on extending the human lifespan and promoting healthy aging. It combines advancements from fields like biotechnology, genomics, and personalized medicine with traditional healthcare practices to prevent age-related diseases and enhance the quality of life as people age. Below are some approaches that are now available.
1. Preventive Care and Risk Assessment: Advanced functional medicine test for genetic, metabolic, and other screening tests for chronic diseases (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, cancer).
2. Precision Medicine or Individualized Medicine: Using genetic, metabolic, and other biological information to create tailored interventions, such as customized nutrition, exercise plans, and pharmaceutical treatments.
3. Biological Age Measurement Tools like epigenetic clocks and other biomarkers assess biological age, which may differ from chronological age, guiding interventions to slow down or reverse aspects of aging.
4. Regenerative Medicine: Employing therapies like stem cells, tissue engineering, and cellular reprogramming to repair or replace damaged tissues and organs.
5. Lifestyle and Wellness Optimization: Integrating evidence-based practices in diet, exercise, stress management, and sleep to optimize longevity.
6. Pharmacological Interventions: Investigating and applying compounds (like metformin, rapamycin, and senolytics) that have shown potential in delaying aging and age-related conditions.
Longevity medicine aims to not only increase lifespan but also improve "healthspan"—the period of life spent in good health. It is an interdisciplinary field combining insights from gerontology, molecular biology, and functional, integrative, lifestyle & anti-aging medicine to help individuals live longer, healthier lives.
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