At the DaSilva Institute, our definition of anti-aging medicine is the utilization of safe, effective therapies that address the underlying mechanisms of aging.

Our goal is not to prolong life to some unrealistically advanced age, but to promote successful aging. We define success as staying healthy and functional up to the end of a long, productive life.

Our focus is on natural treatments for anti-aging. These proven therapies prevent and minimize age-related diseases and include targeted nutritional supplements, natural (bioidentical) hormone replacement therapy, and specific dietary and exercise recommendations.

Anti-aging medicine is the pinnacle of biotechnology joined with advanced clinical preventive medicine. This specialty is founded on the application of advanced scientific and medical technologies for the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reversal of age-related dysfunction, disorders, and diseases.

It is a healthcare model promoting innovative science and research to prolong the healthy lifespan in humans.

As such, anti-aging medicine is based on principles of sound and responsible medical care that are consistent with those applied in other preventive health specialties.

The anti-aging medical model aims to both extend lifespan as well as prolong health span the length of time that we are able to live productively and independently.

Conventional medicine is unreasonably cynical about anti-aging therapies. Most traditional doctors will tell you anti-aging medicine is quackery, believing drugs and surgery are the best ways to battle age-related disease.

While these tools of conventional medicine can save lives in an emergency, they cannot prevent disease or promote health, well-being, and longevity.

Anti-aging medicine is:

Hundreds of scientific research studies clearly prove that modest interventions in diet, exercise, nutrition and single-gene modulation in the laboratory setting beneficially and significantly impact healthy function in old-age.

Many of these interventions also modify maximum lifespan by 20-800% as well.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have found that the anti-aging lifestyle can add 24.6 more years of productive lifespan.

The research team found that the longest-living Americans are Asian-American women residing in Bergen County, New Jersey.1 They live longer than any other ethnic group in the United States to an average lifespan of 91.1 years.

In contrast, the Harvard team found that the shortest-living Americans are Native American populations in South Dakota. Despite receiving regular medical care, they are living an average lifespan of only 66.5 years.

A distinguishing characteristic of the New Jersey womens longevity is that they are availing themselves of state-of-the-art biomedical technologies in advanced preventive care, including preventive screenings, early disease detection, aggressive intervention, and optimal nutrition all of which are cornerstones of the anti-aging medical model.1

A first-ever study reveals the secrets of exceptional health in old age. Mark Kaplan, from Portland State University (Oregon), and colleagues utilized the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3), a multidimensional measure of health status, to examine the maintenance of exceptionally good health among 2,432 elder Canadians enrolled in the Canadian National Population Health Survey

They tracked participants health for a ten-year period from 1994 to 2004. The researchers found that the most important predictors of excellent health over those ten years were:

The team summarized their research: Many of these factors can be modified when you are young or middle-aged. While these findings may seem like common sense, now we have evidence of which factors contribute to exceptional health [as we age].2

Around the world, people are seeking medical guidance for ways to stay healthy, active, and vital well into their older years. As a result, the principles of the anti-aging lifestyle are gaining rapid and widespread acceptance as a framework for lifelong habits for healthy living.

1Bergen County, NJ is long in longevity, New York Times, September 12, 2006; Asian women in Bergen have nations top life expectancy, Free Republic, September 12, 2006.

2Kaplan MS, Huguet N, Orpana H, Feeny D, McFarland BH, Ross N. Prevalence and factors associated with thriving in older adulthood: a 10-year population-based study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2008 Oct;63(10):1097-104.

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