Just read an article on the Internet (where else!), called Selling the Promise of Youth, featuring one of the anti-aging doctors based in California. Obviously, the article was not written by one of his patients! It was not really hateful, but not warm and loving ether. Basically, the author portrayed us, Anti-Aging Physicians, that I’m proud to be myself, as greedy trained professionals, selling poor, unhealthy and desperate patients the “anti-aging and youth forever” dream! Author also mentioned, that the average anti-aging patient takes 20-30 supplements and a few hormones that evil special compounding pharmacies not ran and regulated by FDA, put in bottles and syringes specially for that particular patient, according to the physician estimated doses. The main critique is coming from the fact that we don’t have studies behind all that booming business to prove that it’s safe and it works, like the majority of FDA approved drugs from Physicians Desk Reference book.
Wow, that’s an eye opener! Yes, Anti-Aging Medicine is definitely on a rise. More and more medical professionals and patients become interested in it. And why is that? Could it be, because desperate patients are getting tired of feeling worse and worse every year, and as the result getting more and more prescription medications (FDA approved with well documented and expected side effects for each) and not feeling better? Could it be, because some doctors realize, that you can’t just constantly patch holes and treat the symptoms (by prescribing more and more medications) without trying to find the reason behind them, that could very often be age-related hormonal imbalance?
I know one thing, an overage patient who comes to my not-anti-aging practice is on at least 2 prescription medications by the age of 40, and 3-5 or even more by the age of 50. And the majority of them have not being feeling good for such a long time, that they forgot, what it feels like to be active and lively!
That’s sad.
Here is the fun and inspiring part. There were a lot of comments posted below that article, and of course I did not read all of them, but the majority of them from – are you ready – anti-aging patients, who were saying that they felt better after their hormones were regulated and certain supplements were added and they just were happy to get their life back!