Every day, consumers flock to their doctors' office in search of ways to erase lifes little signs of age: an expanding waistline, a receding hairline, a G-rated sex life, forgetting weather the stove was turned off after making a midnight snack and the list goes on.

About 77 percent of all Americans now living were born after 1939- and many of these folks are noticing these signs of aging in their mirrors, on their scales, and in the job market. Anti-Aging medicine is the application of any therapy or modality that delivers very early detection, prevention, treatment, or reversal of aging-related dysfunction and disease, thus enhancing the quality, of the human life span.

The leading causes of death have undergone a profound shift: due to improvements in the sanitation and infections control since the turn of the twentieth century, Americans are now losing their health and lives to heart disease 31.4%, cancer 23.3 %, and stroke 6.9%. These tree diseases, known collectively as the degenerative diseases of aging, swallow 50% of the U.S. health care budget. One hundred million Americans are being treated for one or another degenerative disease at a health care cost of more than $700 billion per year.

All diseases fall into four categories; the first three are inherited generic disease, infectious disease, and trauma, which account only 10% of the cost for treating all disease in America. 90% of all health care dollars are spent on extraordinary care in the last to three years of life.

If we really want to make an impact on health care in this country and throughout the world, we must focus on preventing the degenerative diseases of aging. With the widespread adoption of Anti-Aging medicine, more of the nations population will receive early screenings to detect illness. This is expected to cut the treatment side of the disease by reducing the costs of having to treat full-blown illness in a greater segment of the population. Early detection and treatment will also lead to extended healthy life spans absent of debilitating or disabling medical conditions.

The Anti-Aging medical model seeks to find solutions to eliminate or, at least, to alleviate the disorders that lead to chronic dependence and disability.

The ultimate accomplishment for the new science of Anti-Aging medicine will be the achievement of practical immortality, in which we live vital life spans of 120 years or more. We predict that by the year 2029, advancements in the stem cell research, therapeutic cloning, and nanotechnology will be harnesses into applications that improve the extend the human life span. In this manner, Anti-Aging medicine is anticipated to have a profound impact on the future of preventive health care.

For example, when Anti-aging medicine is able to delay admission to nursery homes by just one month, the U.S. health care system will see $3 billion in savings a year! The National Institute on Aging recently reported that that if the onset of Alzheimers disease could be delayed by five years, the nation would save $40 billion per year!

"The New ANTI-AGING REVOLUTION Dr. Ronald Klatz, president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine & Dr. Robert Goldman, President of the National Academy of Sports Medicine.

While it may look frivolous seriously, consider taking the following steps to ensure longer life span:

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WHAT IS ANTI-AGING MEDICINE? - The wellington institute