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• Microdermabrasion (838,000 in 2005*)
• Laser hair removal (783,000 in 2005*)
• Sclerotherapy (590,000 in 2005*)
[*Data by American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2006.]
Like medical spas • which pair the features of a cosmetic surgery office with those of a European day spa, plus staffing by a medical doctor, the latest iteration of the anti-aging medical practice offers cosmetic/aesthetic products and services. In this regard, these cutting-edge anti-aging medical practices seek to improve their patients' health, wellness, and longevity from the inside-out, while beneficially impacting their outward appearance to match the newfound vitality and vigor that comes with a successful anti-aging regimen.
Validation of the Anti-Aging Medical Specialty
The notion of "anti-aging medicine" and its primary principle - the ongoing extension of the healthy human lifepan - is validated by numerous prestigious scientific experts:
Dr. Jim Oeppen of Cambridge University (UK) and Dr. James Vaupel of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany) have observed that maximum life expectancy has risen by a quarter of a year, each year, for the past 160 years. In Science, Oeppen and Vaupel write: "If life expectancy were close to a maximum, then the increase in the record expectation of life should be slowing. It is not.” They predict that the top life expectancy will continue to increase by 2.5 years each decade, thus meaning that the world’s top average life expectancy should reach 100 within the next 50 years. ["Broken Limits to Life Expectancy,” Science, May 10, 2002, 296 (5570), pp. 1029-1031.]
A year later, Dr. Vaupel further wrote that “The number of centenarians in many industrialized nations is doubling every decade," with a result that “The average lifespan in industrialized countries in 2150 will be 122.5 years." Similarly, demographer Ronald Lee of the University of California/ Berkeley expects a continued “linear increase in life expectancy, extrapolating to a 25year gain every century." [Wright K, “Staying alive,” Discover, vol 24 no. 11, Nov. 2003.]
Dr. Valter Longo and colleagues at University of Southern California reported that animal research on longevity is very near its transference to human application. Dr. Longo remarks that viable techniques to extend the human lifespan by 20 years of more could be "standard procedure 30 or 40 years down the road," but by prompting "as many people as possible to get into this novel way of looking at disease prevention, anti-aging drugs could be available in the next ten years." [Science magazine, February 28, 2003]
The United Nations has declared that there is “No Limit is set on the increase of life expectancy” [“World Population in 2300”: Report ESA/P/WP.187/Rev.1, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division, 24 March 2004]. By 2300, life expectancies
around the world's major regions will reach record highs: Western Europe, 106 years; Latin America/Caribbean, 98 years; Asia, 96 years; Africa, 92 years. In Japan, life expectancy in 2300 is expected to reach 108 years for females, 104 for males. Concludes the UN: "By 2300, female life expectancies of 100 years or higher are projected for 51 countries; male life expectancies of 100+ are projected for 17 countries."Most recently, in February 2006, Dr. Shripad Tuljapurkar of Stanford University (USA) reported to the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science, that "…[W]e are on the brink of being able to extend human lifespan significantly, because we've got most of the technologies we need to do it." Dr. Tuljapurkar estimates that between 2010 and 2030, the modal, or most common, age of death will increase 20 years if anti-aging therapies come into widespread use. This projected increase consequently increases the modal age of death in industrialized countries from 80 years, to stand at 100."
Anti-aging medicine is now practiced by thousands of physicians in private medical offices, as well as at some of the most prestigious teaching hospitals around the world. Universally, those involved in healthcare, or those whose fields of expertise intersect with healthcare issues, support anti-aging medicine as a healthcare model promoting innovative science and research to prolong the healthy human lifespan. Public policy organizations and government agencies are now embracing anti-aging medicine as a viable solution to alleviate the mounting social, economic, and medical woes otherwise anticipated to arrive with the aging of nearly every nation on the planet.
The Exponential Growth of the Anti-Aging Specialty
Origins of the Anti-Aging Medical Specialty
The origins of the anti-aging medical specialty can be traced directly to its two founding physicians, Ronald Klatz, MD, DO and Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO, FAASP. In August 1992, a dozen physicians convened in Chicago to discuss scientific breakthroughs making major inroads in identifying the mechanisms of deterioration and vulnerability to age-related diseases. These medical pioneers, led by Dr. Klatz and Dr. Goldman, introduced a new definition of aging. In this new perspective, the frailties and physical and mental failures associated with normal aging are caused by physiological dysfunctions that, in many cases, can be altered by appropriate medical interventions. As an extension of this redefinition, Drs. Klatz and Goldman proposed an innovative model for healthcare that focused on the application of advanced scientific and medical technologies for the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reversal of age-related dysfunction, disorders, and diseases. "Anti-aging medicine" was born, and the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) was established.
Profile of Ronald Klatz, MD, DO
Ronald Klatz, MD, DO, originated the term "anti-aging" and regarded as the movement's first physician and chief champion. In an Online Extra to the BusinessWeek March 2006 issue, Dr. Klatz is hailed as a "leading light in the anti-aging medical movement." An ardent supporter of healthcare freedoms and the continuation of a broad platform supporting scientific innovation, Dr. Klatz explains: "History is replete with examples of medical pioneers whose innovations and foresight were trivialized, ignored, challenged, or violently opposed by the establishment, only to ultimately become accepted by society at-large.
Leopold Auenbrugger was ridiculed for percussing and auscultating his patients' chests; Ignaz Semmelweiss' recommendation for doctors to wash their hands before each patient landed him in a mental asylum. More recently, cardiologists denied Nathan Pritikin PhD's program for dietary modification to modulate cardiovascular risk until after his death; in 2005 -23 years after discovering the role of H. pylori bacteria gastritis and peptic ulcer disease - Barry Marshall and Robin Warren are at last recognized for their efforts with the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Given time and.
• Microdermabrasion (838,000 in 2005*)
• Laser hair removal (783,000 in 2005*)
• Sclerotherapy (590,000 in 2005*)
[*Data by American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2006.]
Like medical spas • which pair the features of a cosmetic surgery office with those of a European day spa, plus staffing by a medical doctor, the latest iteration of the anti-aging medical practice offers cosmetic/aesthetic products and services. In this regard, these cutting-edge anti-aging medical practices seek to improve their patients' health, wellness, and longevity from the inside-out, while beneficially impacting their outward appearance to match the newfound vitality and vigor that comes with a successful anti-aging regimen.
Validation of the Anti-Aging Medical Specialty
The notion of "anti-aging medicine" and its primary principle - the ongoing extension of the healthy human lifepan - is validated by numerous prestigious scientific experts:
Dr. Jim Oeppen of Cambridge University (UK) and Dr. James Vaupel of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany) have observed that maximum life expectancy has risen by a quarter of a year, each year, for the past 160 years. In Science, Oeppen and Vaupel write: "If life expectancy were close to a maximum, then the increase in the record expectation of life should be slowing. It is not.” They predict that the top life expectancy will continue to increase by 2.5 years each decade, thus meaning that the world’s top average life expectancy should reach 100 within the next 50 years. ["Broken Limits to Life Expectancy,” Science, May 10, 2002, 296 (5570), pp. 1029-1031.]
A year later, Dr. Vaupel further wrote that “The number of centenarians in many industrialized nations is doubling every decade," with a result that “The average lifespan in industrialized countries in 2150 will be 122.5 years." Similarly, demographer Ronald Lee of the University of California/ Berkeley expects a continued “linear increase in life expectancy, extrapolating to a 25year gain every century." [Wright K, “Staying alive,” Discover, vol 24 no. 11, Nov. 2003.]
Dr. Valter Longo and colleagues at University of Southern California reported that animal research on longevity is very near its transference to human application. Dr. Longo remarks that viable techniques to extend the human lifespan by 20 years of more could be "standard procedure 30 or 40 years down the road," but by prompting "as many people as possible to get into this novel way of looking at disease prevention, anti-aging drugs could be available in the next ten years." [Science magazine, February 28, 2003]
The United Nations has declared that there is “No Limit is set on the increase of life expectancy” [“World Population in 2300”: Report ESA/P/WP.187/Rev.1, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division, 24 March 2004]. By 2300, life expectancies
around the world's major regions will reach record highs: Western Europe, 106 years; Latin America/Caribbean, 98 years; Asia, 96 years; Africa, 92 years. In Japan, life expectancy in 2300 is expected to reach 108 years for females, 104 for males. Concludes the UN: "By 2300, female life expectancies of 100 years or higher are projected for 51 countries; male life expectancies of 100+ are projected for 17 countries."Most recently, in February 2006, Dr. Shripad Tuljapurkar of Stanford University (USA) reported to the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science, that "…[W]e are on the brink of being able to extend human lifespan significantly, because we've got most of the technologies we need to do it." Dr. Tuljapurkar estimates that between 2010 and 2030, the modal, or most common, age of death will increase 20 years if anti-aging therapies come into widespread use. This projected increase consequently increases the modal age of death in industrialized countries from 80 years, to stand at 100."
Anti-aging medicine is now practiced by thousands of physicians in private medical offices, as well as at some of the most prestigious teaching hospitals around the world. Universally, those involved in healthcare, or those whose fields of expertise intersect with healthcare issues, support anti-aging medicine as a healthcare model promoting innovative science and research to prolong the healthy human lifespan. Public policy organizations and government agencies are now embracing anti-aging medicine as a viable solution to alleviate the mounting social, economic, and medical woes otherwise anticipated to arrive with the aging of nearly every nation on the planet.
The Exponential Growth of the Anti-Aging Specialty
Origins of the Anti-Aging Medical Specialty
The origins of the anti-aging medical specialty can be traced directly to its two founding physicians, Ronald Klatz, MD, DO and Robert Goldman, MD, PhD, DO, FAASP. In August 1992, a dozen physicians convened in Chicago to discuss scientific breakthroughs making major inroads in identifying the mechanisms of deterioration and vulnerability to age-related diseases. These medical pioneers, led by Dr. Klatz and Dr. Goldman, introduced a new definition of aging. In this new perspective, the frailties and physical and mental failures associated with normal aging are caused by physiological dysfunctions that, in many cases, can be altered by appropriate medical interventions. As an extension of this redefinition, Drs. Klatz and Goldman proposed an innovative model for healthcare that focused on the application of advanced scientific and medical technologies for the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reversal of age-related dysfunction, disorders, and diseases. "Anti-aging medicine" was born, and the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) was established.
Profile of Ronald Klatz, MD, DO
Ronald Klatz, MD, DO, originated the term "anti-aging" and regarded as the movement's first physician and chief champion. In an Online Extra to the BusinessWeek March 2006 issue, Dr. Klatz is hailed as a "leading light in the anti-aging medical movement." An ardent supporter of healthcare freedoms and the continuation of a broad platform supporting scientific innovation, Dr. Klatz explains: "History is replete with examples of medical pioneers whose innovations and foresight were trivialized, ignored, challenged, or violently opposed by the establishment, only to ultimately become accepted by society at-large. Leopold Auenbrugger was ridiculed for percussing and auscultating his patients' chests; Ignaz Semmelweiss' recommendation for doctors to wash their hands before each patient landed him in a mental asylum. More recently, cardiologists denied Nathan Pritikin PhD's program for dietary modification to modulate cardiovascular risk until after his death; in 2005 -23 years after discovering the role of H. pylori bacteria gastritis and peptic ulcer disease - Barry Marshall and Robin Warren are at last recognized for their efforts with the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Given time and.
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