[Anti-aging medicine, a science-based, essential medicine]
Abstract:
Anti-aging medicine is booming. It enters more and more in the programs of universities. Its hormone and nutritional tests and therapies rely on numerous scientific studies, including double-blind placebo-controlled randomized studies. Its methods are often innovative to obtain more information or benefits with greater safety. The fundamental purpose of anti-aging medicine is to optimize health and the quality of life, and through this, make the physical appearance more youthful. Well-chosen and well-dosed these treatments should not increase the risk of age-related diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases, but on the contrary decrease it by the preventive aspect of the treatments. Opponents to anti-aging medicine fail in collecting valid scientific arguments. Their insistence on maintaining a society of elderly people looking and feeling as elderly people rather than actively participating in searching for ways to attenuate aging is harmful to all who follow them, to themselves in the first place.
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