Anti-Aging Medicine: Can Old Age Be Overcome?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Ideas of eternal youth and anti-aging pills still hold human mind. And this is a very big danger to health, which is subjected to a person who is in search of the means that would help him stay young forever.
Under the influence of advertising, the demand for a variety of wizard-rejuvenation services is increasing. So what exactly is anti-aging medicine? Is the World Panacea or Pure Water a Sell?
Anti-aging medicine is one of the most progressive directions in the science of health, which has both admirers and opponents.
This popular trend was founded in 1992 by American doctors who created the Academy of Anti-Aid Medicine.
For all the life of anti-aging centers, one thing has become clear: experts who sell promises to stop the aging process in the body do it very well.
This business is very successful - for the last ten years the revenues of such centers are growing like mushrooms. The main source of income are women and their age-related problems, such as insomnia, problems in sexual life and lack of energy.
An extremely controversial issue is the use of bioidentical hormones in anti-aging medicine, which, as explained in the clinics, are very effective due to bioidentical-estrogen and progesterone derived from soy or rape. However, there is an assumption that these hormones are much more dangerous than those that are synthesized in the laboratory. The same doubts cause experts and vitamins-antioxidants, which, allegedly, reduce the effects of oxidative stress.
Cellular therapy, which is used in some Swiss clinics, is no less questionable than the two previous procedures. According to one of the employees of such a clinic, patients signed a contract, in which they refused claims in case of side effects.
Psychological theories consider the aging process from several points of view. Some believe that it leads to a change in behavior, fitness for life and motivation. Others believe that the more a person is physically active, the less is affected by time, and others advance the theory that a calm perception of old age and a philosophical attitude toward death allow a person not to harass nerves for expectation of the inevitable and to live peacefully while enjoying the surrounding world.
In any case, aging is a natural process, which no one can stop or even slow down any therapy.
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