"in just 20-years time there will
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only be 2 people in employment for use of natural substances each retired person!" 20-years time there will only be 2 people in employment for each retired person! Thus, it appears that older people will be a necessary component of the workplace, continuing to contribute to society, if only in order to support themselves. That's another reason why we need a fit, lucid and agile older society. Do we continue as we are? Can we allow an ever increasing elderly population to meet an already stretched health-care budget, and simply increase the numbers of people who are ending their lives in suffering? There are already discussions in the UK about whether or not certain drugs, particularly ones that are expensive and perhaps have a small benefit- should be given to the elderly. These questions have currently been raised in regard to certain senile dementia drugs and cancer drugs. They are likely represent the "thin end of the wedge" and that we are all going to hear a lot more debate and indeed decision on such matters.
Antiaging medicine Whether or not one likes the terminology, antiaging medicine itself represents the ultimate preventative medicine. The model is based upon the very early detection, prevention and reversal of aging-related disorders. The science of antiaging medicine is truly multidisciplinary, for it is represented by advances in the fields of biochemistry, biology and physiology and enhanced by contributions from mind/ body medicine, molecular genetics and the new emerging medical technologies.
The only other answer to population control is a high death rate. Do you wish to live in a society that considers euthanasia necessary, perhaps dependant merely upon chronological age, or maybe a ratio of your health-care cost and age?
Antiaging medicine has its foundation in what Nobel Laurate, Linus Pauling described as orthomolecular. Furthermore, antiaging medicine accepts that aging diseases and disorders can and should be prevented, rather than simply treated. Today there are literally thousands of physicians, scientists and researchers around the world involved in the research and treatment of aging. Huge strides are being made in the understanding and control of the aging process. Our challenge is to bring together the international research, and to utilize whatever molecules and techniques that may be necessary for the long-term health of the patient- according to that science.
Or will we introduce antiaging medicine and revolutionise health-care by concentrating on the true prevention of disease? We could reduce the overall cost of
Ultimately, that means changing the way the patent system and the approval system operates. Big steps. But if we remember to educate and prove to the public that
3; At the end of the day, for those who state; "there are too many people already," one of the answers is a low birth rate. Are we ready for societies that dictate who, when and indeed if you can have children?
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this is the common sense they have been looking for, then usually no one stands in the way of a ground-up revolution for very long.
enlightened first are compelled to pursue the light in spite of others." We could say the same today about antiaging medicine.
Conclusion
If we too can grasp the fundamental fact that we need to be pro-active about aging instead of just being tolerant of it, then mankind will be able take into its hands the possibility to radically alter the way we think about and approach "health." If we don't allow dogma, vested interests and other imposed restrictions to stand in our way, then the door is already open to us.
We stand at the threshold of a new paradigm, for the first time in history we understand some principles of why we age, how we can measure biological aging and how we can slow and treat its affects. Through the use of lifestyle choices, chelation, nutrition, hormones, drugs and the emerging technologies, we now have the ability to delay, reduce and even prevent the appearance of numerous disorders and diseases. I envisage in the decade to come that thousands of antiaging clinics will be established. People will attend these clinics for regular checks and through the use of biological aging markers, an individual's rate of aging and risk from particular degenerative disease will be measured. Steps will then be taken to slow and eradicate these biological aging signs before they become diseases, and therefore difficult and expensive to treat. In other words, the traditional recognition and diagnosis of disease will change forever. One could consider these aging but otherwise "healthy" individuals attending antiaging clinics, in much the same way as individuals visit the dentist today, for their preventative checks and measures. However, as is usual with all great advances, mankind will probably experience the vested interests of the establishment and dogma, that together- will attempt to slow down, or perhaps even prevent the wide-scale use of antiaging medicine. After his discovery, Christopher Columbus said: "Human progress has never been achieved with unanimous consent. Those who are
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