What is Longevity Medicine?
Longevity Medicine is a new and rapidly-growing field of medicine which tracks various biomarkers of biological ageing and prescribes personalised treatments in the hope of positively altering these biomarkers. If done right, a patient’s rate of biological ageing can be slowed and this would confer longer health-span and lifespan.
Living longer is only worthwhile if health and happiness are preserved — living to 100 after becoming chronically ill at 80 should not be anyone’s goal. Observational data has identified factors which speed human biological ageing and others which slow it. Several supplements and medications are presently being evaluated for their potential to mitigate the ravages of ageing in the hope of permitting health, strength and happiness into extreme old age.