How does Anti-Aging Medicine Differ from Conventional Medicine?
Conventional medicine relies very heavily on pharmaceuticals. Since most pharmaceuticals are synthetic compounds - foreign agents to our bodies - they often end up causing harmful effects. An example is the use of the horse derived estrogens and synthetic progestins that finally proved to be more harmful than helpful for women in menopause. Another example is the occurrence of heart attacks in patients who have received COX-2 inhibitor drugs. That is not to say that all pharmaceuticals are bad. There are many that are beneficial and have stood the test of time.
Conventional medicine pays attention to the quantity of life (survival time) and very little to its quality. Almost 90 percent of the published cancer treatment studies report in terms of length of survival and fail to address the quality of survival.
Anti-Aging Medicine takes advantage of scientific evidence that has been well documented in peer-reviewed journals to control the underlying causes of aging and age-related disease...
- It seeks to detect, stop, or reverse the pathological process which can result in a heart attack, cancer, or stroke in a given patient
- It does so by using nutritional and lifestyle approaches, hormones, vitamins, minerals, and other targeted supplements, with minimal use of pharmaceuticals
- It focuses on enhancing a patient's vitality and quality of life, without ignoring the quantity of life
- It is not "alternative" or "elite" or "cosmetic" medicine and not just "growth hormone therapy"
- Nothing is more valuable than vigor, vitality, productivity, and its result: happiness. No treatment of a disease, however advanced, can be as meaningful as its PREVENTION!