Anti-Aging Medicine

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The desire to remain forever young is deeply rooted in European and American tradition. This is because Europe has adopted the Greek beauty definition, with the dream of a fountain of youth. Thus, anti-aging medicine (MA) is being swept by a contemporary wave, with more than just medical or cosmetic offer. We observe in society that the period of adolescence has lengthened steadily: young people now live longer with their parents. People aged between 40 and 50 years cultivating a "young" lifestyle, practicing sports or riding current stock motorcycle. The MA responds to the need for rejuvenation associated with the second half of life. This trend is reinforced by the fact that the first generation of baby boomers reach that older age - generation which has assimilated the cult of youth of the 60s and 70s.

Clinical trials investigating the risks and benefits of interventions of anti-aging medicine are still in progress, or to date have not provided definitive answers. It is important to be cautious and wait until studies are published and analyzed. It is important to consider products that may have a beneficial effect on health (such as the possibility that the anabolic hormones protect, at least in the short term, against the frailty of aging). However, it is wrong to sell such products with unproven claims.

It is found that the effectiveness of a plethora of products is often not proven and that health may already be maintained at an advanced age by long known and reliable measures: balanced diet, adequate physical activity, smoking cessation and timely treatment of risk factors like high blood pressure. Therapies for hormone substitution are useful for people with proven hormonal deficiency. However, the prescription of additional hormones in healthy older persons as a "fountain of youth", is often useless. And some scientists believe that the administration of additional doses of vitamins benefits only people whose diet does not provide sufficient vitamins. A good result of anti-aging medicine would be to quickly identify any deficiencies and to intervene only in a targeted manner, whenever indicated.

The following finding of the experts appears to be: "At present, the possibilities of victory against aging are largely theoretical." Despite the available arsenal, it seems that the proven products are inversely proportional to the benefits engendered by the market. There are too many grey areas on many products. For a large number, we do not know if they are effective or harmful.

Is the sky clearer on the side of the hormones. Knowing that with age the hormonal balance is lost and their concentration decreases, the idea is to compensate for these shortcomings by artificial means. A "double-edged weapon", point out some doctors. Estrogen, testosterone or growth hormone, despite miles of prescription here and elsewhere, are not only producing side effects but also no study of their attributed effect can be described as positive in the sense of successful aging control.

It should be noted that scientists themselves are also sometimes divided on the effects of certain treatments or certain products.

What we can do to the body, can we at least do it for the mind? It seems not. The injection of DNA or the production of neural implants that would replace our nerve filaments are still be tested in laboratory. The quintet suggested today by the anti-aging medicine to keep a healthy mind is: a brain healthy diet, physical activity, maintaining hormonal balance, brain training and stress reduction.

And yet, we do not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Scientists are pursuing research, that directly or indirectly, make old age gentler. The bionic limbs, controlled by neurons in the brain, exist. Adult stem cells can now produce cartilage or cardiac tissue. The retinal prosthesis is not far from being mass produced. Not to mention surgery and cosmetic medicine. We are in full progress. There are treatments that work already. A highly individualized treatment with hormones, like growth hormone, can give good results. But that should not be propose (yet) for mass consumption. The lack of international regulation of such "without borders" products, not subject to market drugs control, leads to abuse. Prospects are nevertheless very interesting.

It should be note that the number of professionals moving to this practice is steadily increasing. Thus, the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine had some time ago, more than 22,000 physicians and scientists engaged in over 105 countries.

This page is inspired (and contains extracts) of the article by Anne-Muriel Brouet, published in the Tribune de Genève on the website of the Association of Physicians of the Canton of Geneva.



  
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