Optimal Aging

As a population, we are not a healthy lot. We are overweight; we suffer with chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, digestive disorders and dozens of other debilitating conditions which lessen not only the quality but the quantity of our lives. We eat poorly. We don’t drink enough pure water. We don’t exercise correctly (if at all). We fail to get enough sleep and expose ourselves to hundreds of toxins and pollutants on a daily basis. To make matters worse, most of us have and hold too much stress, we live in a constant state of conflict or survival. Disease is a result and reaction of how we live. In other words, our lack of consistent positive lifestyle choices results in a progressive breakdown of the body, that we label disease. This is what makes us look and feel older way before our time.

Some of these circumstances are beyond our direct control. For example, it’s impossible to eliminate all of the toxins found in our food and air. Similarly, it’s impossible to stop the body from getting older (as compared to debilitating aging). By taking steps to optimize and extend our health, however, it is very possible to stop if from aging too quickly and of course lowering of eliminating chronic disease.

How does the aging process begin? The body can recover very fast from almost any form of stress or neglect until about the age of 30. After this, however, things change. The immune and hormonal system that have been used to "build and repair" starts to decline, digestion and assimilation starts to decrease, the adrenal "stress coping system" become overworked, our liver and detoxification system become over burdened. Insidious little symptoms of illness—the first sign posts of aging—start to appear. Throughout the coming years, some of these symptoms intensify and multiply. Although they are rarely severe enough to be classified as a disease, they work together against the body establishing a sort of suffering zone in which the body isn’t sick, but certainly isn’t well.

It is important to realize that our bodies do not sabotage us; we sabotage our bodies. Your body is designed to survive and you are designed to thrive. Our bodies are functioning to the best of their ability under the circumstances and within the environment we have placed them in. Our body is genetically programmed to function as well as it can for as long as it can. Research indicates that the human body has the potential to function for 130 years. This surprising resiliency may be difficult to believe given the current health status of the typical North American.

Preventing or reversing the onset of these symptoms is what optimal aging is really all about. It’s a process that requires making a firm and persistent commitment to pursuing health. This is quite different than making a commitment to fighting disease, which is the basis of our “modern” medical system. The absence of health results in disease. But by taking proactive steps to prolong health, disease and even medications can be reduced and in many instances, completely eliminated.

Anti-Aging, Optimal Aging, Preventative Medicine: is the increased quality and quantity of life from the incorporation of therapies and or consistent positive lifestyle changes. True anti-aging looks at the person’s mental emotional stress, environmental toxin exposure, genetic predisposition and nutrient or hormonal deficiencies. Treatments are aimed at increasing the person’s immune system, elimination of toxins, exercise capacity, hormonal balance, improving eating habits and nutrition.

Chronic Diesease are the most expensive to treat in the current medical system and the most costly on human sufferring. Extensive scientific research has demonstrated that many of the chronic diseases associated with aging are largely caused by lifestyle choices and could be improved with preventative medicine. These diseases include: Heart disease, Diabetes, High blood pressure, High cholesterol, Stroke, Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Cancer , Alzheimer’s disease.