Aging can be a progressive decline in mental and physical ability, accompanied by an increase in susceptibility to chronic disease. Humankind has long sought ways to slow or retard the aging process. Given the vast number of aging baby boomers in our society, the relevance of anti-aging medicine looms ever larger. Taken in the broadest and most positive light, anti-aging medicine is an extension of preventive health care. Other primary natural tools against aging are rest, exercise, and stress control techniques.
Plastic surgery is the surgical arm of the field of anti-aging medicine.
Anti-oxidant vitamins have few negative side effects and have shown a wide range of health benefits. Emphasizes tried and true approaches such as good nutrition and exercise. Metabolic typing is also useful the process of profiling an individual s unique metabolism in order to prescribe maximally effective supplementation and other treatments. There has been no dramatic new breakthrough in anti-aging medicine. Most drugs and approaches have been in clinical practice for at least 10 to 30 years.