Longevity Medicine Archives - Phase Plastic Surgery

FDA Advisory Committee Votes To Make Peptides More Available: What You Need To Know

If you are an advocate of peptides, as we are at Phase Longevity, you have probably heard about a highly anticipated FDA advisory committee meeting held on July 23 and 24, 2026, to consider expanding access. The committee voted...

Can You Reduce Microplastics in Your Body? New TPE Research Suggests You Can

Microplastics are prevalent in our environment, and if they are inhaled, ingested, or absorbed by the body, they can travel through the bloodstream and affect your health. Research estimates that people in the U.S. ingest between 39,000 and 52,000...

Hormesis and Longevity: When a Little Bit of What’s Bad for You Is Good for You

Hormesis is a deceptively simple but counterintuitive concept that has broad implications in longevity. The cliché that “a little bit of that which does not kill us makes us stronger” actually has some scientific basis; the right amount of stress...

5 Paradoxes in Longevity

When is too much of a good thing bad for you? A common instinct is to believe that doing more of a good thing, whether exercise, vitamin supplements, or even something as simple as red light therapy will be...

Long-Term GLP-1 Use: What We Know So Far

What we know so far about long-term GLP-1 receptor agonist use is that these therapies, including semaglutide and tirzepatide, have reshaped the weight-loss conversation over the past few years, helping patients achieve results that were difficult to reach through...

When Should You Consider Longevity Medicine?

You might have noticed changes in your energy levels, recovery time, or overall resistance to disease as you age. Even if you are committed to healthy lifestyle habits, you might find that these habits are not enough to sustain...

How Often Should You Test Your Biological Age?

You may already be dedicated to living a healthy lifestyle that includes proper nutrition, regular exercise, and adequate sleep. However, your chronological age does not always reflect what is happening inside your body. Biological age testing gives you an...

Key Treatments and Technologies in Longevity Medicine

Longevity medicine is a rapidly growing healthcare field that offers a path to staying healthier for longer by using targeted, evidence-driven strategies to extend your health span. At PHASE Plastic Surgery & Longevity, we focus on targeted therapies that...

What Treatments Are Used In Longevity Medicine?

The goal of longevity medicine is to improve your health span rather than just add on years. In this space, treatments can mean everything from biological age testing to biotech-style interventions and skin-focused options you can document over time....

Introducing NR: A better alternative to intravenous NAD+

Part of my job as a Longevity Medicine specialist is to determine what works and what doesn’t, and right now the spotlight is on IV (intravenous) NAD+. From celebrity endorsements (Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Chelsea Handler...

What Biomarkers Matter Most for Longevity?

Whatever your longevity strategy, whether healthy practices like eating a balanced diet, exercising, and getting adequate sleep, or advanced treatments like plasma exchange, it is important to be able to measure your progress. This is done with tests known...

Common Reasons To Seek Longevity Medicine

People look into longevity medicine when they want practical, measurable tools to support health span, feeling younger, and looking younger. At PHASE Plastic Surgery, our program goes beyond the foundations of lifestyle, leveraging the biotech side of care. We...

Epigenetic Age vs. Chronological Age: What’s the Difference?

Most of us think of age as just a number. But why do some people appear to age slowly and others seem to be older than their calendar age?. This is where epigenetic age comes in. Epigenetic age gives...

Top Stories in Longevity 2025

Longevity medicine has officially gone mainstream. There is no shortage of notable stories this past year or so, even if some of them are unsettling, like the moment when Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were...

What Is the Difference Between Functional Medicine and Longevity Medicine?

Terms like functional medicine and longevity medicine are often used interchangeably, but the approaches serve different purposes. Knowing the distinction helps you set realistic goals, pick the right kind of clinician, and understand what will be measured to track...

Comparing Popular GLP-1 Medications

GLP-1 medications – a class of drugs originally developed to treat diabetes and now used for weight management and longevity – help regulate appetite, gastric emptying, and post-meal glucose. When comparing popular GLP-1 medications, you may notice that they...

Longevity Medicine FAQs: What Patients Should Know

The desire to live longer and healthier lives drives longevity medicine. This new practice seeks to extend people’s health spans—the time of life lived in peak health—by using evidence-based strategies to slow or even reverse aging and reduce age-related...

How To Calculate Your Biological Age

You might know your age chronologically, but that number does not necessarily reflect the health of your body. That is where biological age comes in. Biological age calculates the functionality of your cells, tissues, and organs in relation to...

Exosome Therapy vs. PRP/PRF: Which Is Right for You?

Regenerative therapies are becoming popular because people want safe, evidence-based methods of boosting skin integrity, encouraging hair growth, and hastening recovery. Two therapies receiving attention are exosome therapy and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or platelet-rich fibrin (PRF). Both use biological...

Benefits of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange

Once found only in critical-care units, therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is now a headline service in advanced longevity clinics—and the excitement is well earned. By filtering out your oldest, most toxin-laden plasma, TPE quickly refreshes the biochemical landscape that...

What Is Biohacking Longevity?

“Biohacking” once evoked images of gadget-laden enthusiasts pursuing fringe experiments. Today, data-validated tools let mainstream adults nudge their biology toward healthy aging. So, what is biohacking longevity in a clinical setting? Biohacking longevity is the systematic use of diagnostics,...

Are There Complications With Therapeutic Plasma Exchange?

Are there complications with therapeutic plasma exchange? Every medical treatment carries some degree of risk, and trust in your provider grows when those risks are explained openly. Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is generally well-tolerated, yet understanding possible difficulties equips...

How We Use the Skin Age Clock for Anti-Aging Skin Care

At Phase Plastic Surgery, we use cutting-edge technology for our Longevity Medicine. To help patients measure their biological age, our experts use Haut.Ai Skin Age Analysis skin age clock to determine appropriate anti-aging skin care treatments and products to...

Peptides Pep Talk

Dr. Richard Baxter Why are peptides such a hot topic right now? It is almost easier to list what peptides don’t do than what they do. Peptides are used in advanced skin rejuvenation products (like OneSkin), nutritional supplements, and...

The next chapter in artificial intelligence for genuine beauty and longevity

I am delighted to share that a chapter on AI in anti-aging skin care that I co-authored was just published in the book Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Longevity (Springer Nature, 2023). The chapter, titled Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Skin Anti-aging and Skin...

Anti-aging supplements: what works

Do anti-aging supplements work? It’s a simple question with a complicated answer, but there’s increasing evidence that some of them do, and many do not. The problem is measuring the results, especially if you are a stickler about what...

2021 Top Ten stories in anti-aging longevity medicine

While headlines in biotech this year were dominated by the seemingly neverending pandemic, it’s also been a big year in anti-aging and longevity science. In no particular order, here is my top ten list of favorites: 1. Plant-derived photo-curable...

Next generation anti-aging skin care is here!

We are thrilled to announce that Emepelle, for post-menopausal skin, and OS-01, scientifically documented to restore aging skin at a molecular level, are here now! Even better, my patients can order them at an exclusive price including free delivery....

Move over, anti-aging: de-aging” is where it’s at

When did anti-aging become a sensitive subject? “For Skin-Care Brands, It’s Not Anti-Aging Anymore. It’s Pro-Aging” proclaimed a recent article on the beauty business. Apparently the smart companies are pivoting toward the 50+ consumer, just don’t call it anti-aging. Isabella Rossellini,...

Top Ten advances in Anti-Aging and Longevity Medicine 2020

This month I became one of the first doctors to complete a certificate course in the emerging specialty of Longevity Medicine. As I have been hinting at in several posts over the past year, there is an abundance of...

Is your skin older than you are? The new Photo Age Clock

One thing I’ve learned about anti-aging in my research is that we all age differently, and all parts of the body often age at different rates. This is especially true for skin; for example, you may be a fitness...

Update on anti-aging diets

What is the best anti-aging diet? I’ve been studying anti-aging science for a while now, and it seems like there is a new anti-aging diet being touted every month. There is no lack of research on dietary strategies for...

Anti-aging in the time of Coronavirus

With everyone so focused on COVID-19, and labs preoccupied with research on developing tests and treatments, it would be easy to overlook other important research that has been published lately. I had been wondering how I could pivot away...

What’s your real age? The new era of anti-aging

I just received the results of my biological age test, and as many of you suspect I am apparently immature for my age. Seriously though, the science of measuring biological age–as opposed to chronological age–is now a validated concept....

Are antioxidant supplements bad for you?

It seems almost heretical to ask whether antioxidants are a good thing or not, but more and more studies are casting serious doubt on their effectiveness. Even worse, it’s increasingly looking like they may actually do more harm than...

The future of anti-aging is here and it’s looking good

Just as I finished reading Harvard scientist David Sinclair’s brilliant new book Lifespan: Why we age and why we don’t have to, I turned to see the November 2019 issue of Allure magazine again proclaiming “the end of anti-aging.”...