If Anti-aging starts from the inside-out it will ends up improving everything from the outside-in.

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Anti-Aging

Anti-aging addresses how to prevent, slow, or reverse the effects of  aging and help people live longer, healthier, happier lives. It includes scientific research and applications and other advannces. Handling change, stress, and aging.

The anti-aging marketplace includes nutrition, physical fitness, skin care, hormone replacements, vitamins, supplements, and herbs. Alternative medicine and holistic approaches have often been an incubator for approaches initially shunned by traditional medicine. We are focused on slowing down, repairing or reversing the underlying processes of aging in order to deliver improved health and quality of life. (Despite the name, increasing mean or maximum lifespan is not necessarily the main goal).

History

Anti-aging pursuits date back at least to ancient Egypt. While the religion and pyramids focused on the afterlife, a lot of attention was given to herbs and remedies such as  olive leaf  to promote beauty and longevity. Over the centuries scientists and alchemists tried to find cures and potions. These included drinking, eating, or injecting substances such as gold, testicles, and transplanting monkey gonads. Many cultures such as India and China developed long traditions of herbs, foods, diets, and health practices to foster anti-aging.

There are many legends of magic places that give life, e.g., Ponce de León’s search for the “Fountain of Youth.” In 1933 British novelist James Hilton’s book Lost Horizon described Shangri-la – an ageless paradise somewhere in the Himalayan mountains near the Tibet-China border. Despite Shangri-la being a fictional place, expeditions have tried to find it.

Gerontologists have tended to paint a bleak picture of aging being all downhill with increasing loss of skills, functions, and quality of life. Women’s movements leaders, e.g., Betty Friedan’s book The Fountain of Youth and books like Gail Sheehy’s Passages helped paint a more positive, generative template for aging.

Around 2000 research started identifying strengths that go with aging. Daniel Mroczek, Ph.D found that older people report being happier than younger people. At ages 18–27 only 28% reported being very happy. The percentage goes up with each age bracket with the bracket 68-77 at 38%. The rating dips a little at ages 78–89 to 34%. Other researcher found that seniors tend to be better story tellers and become more agreeable and conscientious with age. Laura Carstensen, Ph.D reports that as we age, we are tend to be more positive and in better control of our emotions.

 Centenarians

One way to find what helps people live long healthy lives is to study those who have succeeded. Centenarians have written best selling books, excelled in sports, piloted airplanes, practiced medicine, danced, sculpted, taught in universities, graduated from universities, run for Congress, and even fathered children.

The current documented record holder for longevity was Jeanne Calment , a French woman who lived 122 years and died in 1997. There are reports of older people in some remote villages but there is no documentation to verify the claims (and they live in cultures that give great status to the oldest). Centenarians have become so common, the newest category is “Super Centenarians,” those 110+ years old.

 Research suggests that centenarians have little in common physically. They are physically active people, most don’t smoke, and they typically maintained about the same body weight through their adult life.

The role of genetics in longevity is complex. A genetic vulnerability to a life threatening disease, e.g., malaria, reduces life expectancy.  There appear to be genes that foster living longer. Researchers have extended the life of fruit flies by 30% by giving them an extra copy of a gene. Other researchers extended the life of nematodes (microscopic worms) by 500% by removing a gene. It isn’t clear yet why the genetic engineering is extending the lives, but the results are promising.

Danish researchers compared identical and fraternal twins and extrapolated that only 30% of longevity is genetic. That means that 70% is lifestyle and the choices people make. George Valliant, Ph.D., and subsequent researchers have followed Harvard freshman in the classes from 1939–1949 periodically to the present. One especially notable finding was that men who had traits such as optimism and humor as freshmen were less likely to develop chronic illness or die by age 45. The difference was even more pronounced at age 60.

Current Anti-aging

American life expectancy has increased from 47 in 1900 to 77 in 2007. It is important to remember that this number is an overall average, which includes every person born, no matter how short their life might be. In 1900, average life expectancy appeared disproportionately short because of very high infant mortality, numerous serious childhood diseases, and also because of the high numbers of women who died in childbirth or shortly thereafter. Reducing infant mortality, reducing the incidence of childhood diseases and reducing the number of women who die bearing children have been three of the most significant factors in changing the overall life expectancy. General factors include:

• Prevention of diseases (Lifestyle Changes) 
• Scientific advances
• Increased affluence, affording better living conditions
• Better education, (in 1900 most adult Americans didn’t have an eighth-grade education, now more than 80% of American 25+ years old are high school graduates and 27% have at least a bachelor’s degree)
• Improved overall sanitation and hygiene
• Safer, healthier working conditions
• Rise in ALTERNATIVE Health Care.

Nutrition has been an extremely controversial area in anti-aging medicine with gurus offering a huge variety of diets to help people stay healthy and live longer. Note, however, that the program also places a strong emphasis on exercise, relaxation skills, managing stress, emotional intimacy, and lifestyles. Thus it is not clear to what extent the nutritional program is achieving the results and how big a role the lifestyles components play. One of the few areas of consensus among nutritionists is the importance of keeping stable blood sugar levels, achieved in part by managing the glycemic indexes of food choices.

Some fitness and longevity advocates love grueling sports and activities such as running marathons. This runs the risk of injuries and wear and tear on body parts such as knee joints. Some fitness experts focus on being healthy and fit enough and emphasize a balanced approach. This includes cardiovascular fitness, strength, flexibility, balance, and posture – whether achieved through exercise or sports and the proper techinques to achieve them.

 Anti-aging Healthcare has tended to focus on age conscious consumer’s desires to look good, feel good, and live as long as possible. Anti-aging Healthcare has tended to focus on hormone therapies, supplements, skin care treatments (e.g., skin resurfacing, topical treatments, and other products), although plastic surgery is part in whole of this the cost is sometimes overwhelming along with the risks and side effects.

Millions of women have used Premarin (synthetic estrogens and made from mare’s urine) to reduce the impact of menopause.  In 1991 the Women's Health Initiative, studied 161,808 postmenopausal women with randomized trials of pharamsutical hormone supplements vs. placebo. It discontinued the study in 2002 because it concluded that on the whole the pharmasutical supplements were doing more harm than good (primarily due to an increased risk of breast cancer). Suzane Sommers has been championing the use of bioidentical hormone replacement from Alternative Healthcare practitioners for women as more efficacious. She has received a lot of opposition from Medical doctors.

Millions of men are taking testosterone supplements (usually creams or patches) and tens of thousands of Americans are taking Human Growth Hormone (HGH) injections at a cost of $10–12,000 a year. There are more than a hundred other alternatives promoting less expensive secretagogues that claim to prompt the body to naturally produce HGH ( Naturally-with less side effects). 

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