[ANTIAGING TREATMENTS: WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?]

Antiaging medicine is nowadays an equivocal topic frequently used in geriatric medicine. It is, also, one of the most important sources of medical costs. With the words "antiaging medicine" we may express several different desires: a) to arrive at advanced age in the best possible physical and mental conditions, b) to act in order to slowing the aging process associated changes, c) to revert some of these negative changes. Prevention is the only positive successful way to achieve any of these possibilities. It means to emphasize any sort on interventions acting over health habits as physical activity, nutrition, to avoid toxic habits (tobacco) and to take primary and secondary diseases preventive measures. There is not medical evidence of effectiveness with any other measures, as hormonal therapies or reconstructive surgery.